On 28 June 2011 08:35, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, I have read the replies that are against social networking functionality. In my opinion you are all missing the point. Our projects are crowd sourced projects and we do not support collaboration, we do not support special projects. We need to.
Yeah! Special projects with a narrower focus would be great, how about giving them a catchy name like "WikiProjects". Maybe we could give every article a "talk page" for users to collaborate on. Heck, let's go mad and give users their own talk pages too! Now if only there was some protocol for real time chats we could use...
Social networking in our context will not be a Facebook, a Twitter or an IRC. It will have the parts that we need and it will support our activities. Thanks,
I'm all for improving the interface around these things, but exactly what functionality are you asking for that we don't already have?
Pete / the wub
On 27 June 2011 18:24, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi. Wikipedia should be more like a social network. It provides us with the opportunity to reach out to people when we want to crowd source some activity. We have a problem in retaining people particular newbies. When
we
show a social side to our work on open content (not only encyclopaedic content) we stand a better chance we are likely to do better. Thanks, GerardM
That's an interesting theory. Wikipedia is sort of the epitome of a social enterprise, and all of the good and the bad in the project can be traced to its social nature. Trying to make it more like a "social network" can only be interpreted as making it more like some other social network, perhaps by integrating purely social mechanisms a la Facebook. Of course, that could either help or hinder, with no way to know for sure in advance; perhaps encouraging more social interaction would exacerbate and personalize the disputes and conflicts that drive people away.
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