Sorry for re-activate this thread again, this time I want to address the observability on social networks.
Today content of or links to Wikipedia are spread all over the web. So the observability are not limited only for Wikipedia users, but for the whole internet users.
Let's take a look what happened if a wikipedia link posted on twitter, * https://twitter.com/mountain/status/483856113364762626
It is a bare link, not user friendly.
By contrast, please take a look at * https://twitter.com/mountain/status/483858990573441024
It is a NYT article with photos and abstract.
The technical things behind this are OpenGraph or something like this. The content provider label their own content with some metadata. And Twitter/Facebook/etc will show a rich content on their timelines.
I think we should embrace social, but it do not means social interactions only inside our own project, we should be social-friendly for the whole web.
A more detailed proposal - knowledge card.
Knowledge card is an overview of a wikipedia article, it can be used in many ways:
* it can spread easily on the social networks * from it, we can derive a more human-friendly timeline of wiki changes * etc
Regards,
Mingli
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Edward Saperia ed@wikimanialondon.org wrote:
On 5 June 2014 19:33, Michael Snow wikipedia@frontier.com wrote:
On 6/5/2014 11:11 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Michael Snow wikipedia@frontier.com wrote:
Pete's were again primarily social and community-based, but at this
level
of discussion we should be looking at both social features and
technical
ones.
YES YES YES!
I also don't believe that social and technical aspects can always be neatly separated.
The common separation between UX and community/social concerns inspired me to choose "Social Machines https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Social_Machines" as a theme for Wikimania this year, a term invented by Nigel Shadbolt, Tim Berners-Lee et al and defined thus:
"Once upon a time 'machines' were programmed by programmers and used by users. The success of the Web has changed this relationship: we now see configurations of people interacting with content and with each other, blurring the line between computations performed by machine logic and algorithms, and those that result from input by humans, arising from their own psychological processes and life experience. Rather than drawing a line through such Web-based systems to separate the human and digital parts (as computer science has traditionally done), we can now draw a line around them and treat each such compound as a 'social machine', a machine in which the two aspects are seamlessly interwoven."
The thing I especially like about the "machine" metaphor is the implication that they are things that can be fixed :)
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