Gordo;
It means designers of online communities; people who design digital spaces for group interaction. This is a large and active area of study, and Wikipedia is an interesting example because not only is it active and well populated but the participants have created something of enormous value. Imagine if World of Warcraft did the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_participation
Github is a digital space based around Git. Why don't you think it fits?
On 11 June 2013 17:34, wikimediauk-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
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- Wikimedia Foundation elections (Katie Chan)
- Two events in London - Royal Opera House & British Library, 22 and 29 June (Andrew Gray)
- Re: Wikimedia UK elects four trustees to its Board (HJ Mitchell)
- Re: Wikimania London 2014 (Gordon Joly)
- Review of the Train the Trainers programme (Richard Nevell)
- Conference Committee meeting (all welcome) (Harry Mitchell)
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:48:00 +0100 From: Katie Chan katie.chan@wikimedia.org.uk To: Wikimediauk-l wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia Foundation elections Message-ID: < CAFbgAo3FKNFvi4k3yh-ptaka7KuWq9F4mTQ4wrWaHpSqHvcEzg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
Hi all,
Now that the Wikimedia UK AGM is over, there’s a couple of other important elections going on within the Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia Foundation is electing three (3) community members to its Board of Trustees, the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation. In addition, the community is also electing two (2) members to the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and also the FDC Ombudsperson.
You can find more information on all of this, including the candidate statements, ask the candidate questions, list of eligibility requirements for voters and information on how to vote on < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013%3E.
As the work of the Foundation Board of Trustees impacts the ways the movement pursuit its goals, and the FDC are involved in the grants making process which the chapter was involved in last year and expects to be again this year, I would encourage as many of you as possible to take an interest and vote in these elections.
Katie
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On 12/06/13 08:02, Edward Saperia wrote:
Gordo;
It means designers of online communities; people who design digital spaces for group interaction. This is a large and active area of study, and Wikipedia is an interesting example because not only is it active and well populated but the participants have created something of enormous value. Imagine if World of Warcraft did the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_participation
Github is a digital space based around Git. Why don't you think it fits?
Thanks. Github is one of many. So it fits, but so many other software suits and frameworks, going back a decade or two.
For example, Usenet?
Gordo
On 12/06/13 09:12, Gordon Joly wrote:
On 12/06/13 08:02, Edward Saperia wrote:
Gordo;
It means designers of online communities; people who design digital spaces for group interaction. This is a large and active area of study, and Wikipedia is an interesting example because not only is it active and well populated but the participants have created something of enormous value. Imagine if World of Warcraft did the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_participation
Github is a digital space based around Git. Why don't you think it fits?
Thanks. Github is one of many. So it fits, but so many other software suits and frameworks, going back a decade or two.
For example, Usenet?
Gordo
And, I must mention FLICKR, if only to gain some exposure, even if a little off topic:-)
I have used FLICKR both as an online repository. But like Geocities, some thing has changed in the past few weeks (Yahoo being a common factor!!!)...
I have 28,000 images. I have tags and organised a large proportion, and used the images in other projects. I have contributed many of my own images to Wikimedia Commons. Images from FLICKR have been added by bots as well.
I "moved" a community to FLICKR that did not do well as a Mediawiki. But thrived on FLICKR.
Compare:
http://deadpubssociety.org.uk/index.php/List
http://deadpubssociety.org.uk/
with
http://www.flickr.com/groups/deadpubssociety/ (over 7,000 images)
I am also active in other "online community" groups on FLICKR. But that has all changed with the past few weeks, with the new FLICKR which promotes the image and obfuscates the semantics of the data.
Gordo
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