Last Tuesday, June 23, we had the last session of the working group of this academic year 2014-2015. We were reviewing the processes of all these months and thinking about how to approach the working group for September. This time has passed very quickly and we have reflected and worked together on the collaborative editing through pads and the documentation in wiki format. I feel (and I hope it is a shared feeling) that we have learned a lot from each other, as well as from the process of collective analysis and production itself.
If you want to check the sessions of these months of work, I put below a list with link to each of them:
- Session 1: Group approach. Differences between pads and wikis
- Session 2: Collective development and programming. Wiki environment space in process
- Session 3: Preparation of the editing marathon for Women's Day
- Session 4: Types of users and difficulties. Feeling of belonging in the collective
- Session 5: Experiencing collaborative editing and documentation
- Session 6: The alleged lack of relevance in Wikipedia articles
- Session 7: The need for online sources for ticket creation
- Session 8: List of tasks for the organization of the group
- Session 9: Editing of linguists. Proposal and approach
- Session 10: Online meeting to continue with the tasks
- Session 11: University projects experiencing collaborative development
- Session 12: The satisfaction of uploading an article prepared by all
> Proposal for the 2015-2016 academic year
As of September, once I have regained my role as Medialab-Prado’s ‘user’, I would like to continue with the collaborative editing working group. Unlike this first year, experimental and with some very open objectives, I would like us all to be able to prepare a roadmap. Although I think it is essential that remain flexible in our approach to working sessions, I also think that it would be good to set some milestones to contribute to the stimulus of reaching them together.
In recent weeks, I have been able to discuss with various people what the next course could be like and proposals and ideas have emerged that I am already looking forward to addressing with all of you. Apart from weekly meeting in Medialab-Prado (it will remain to specify the day and time, which we will discuss in September trying to adapt to what most can and prefer), it would be important to generate thematic meetings as the Women's Day Editathon or the editathon #Lingwiki I attended as an observer at the Autonomous University.
Therefore, so that we can all configure how we want the next Wikisphere course to be, I have opened this Pad. From now until September we have plenty of time to add elements to this collaborative workspace proposal.
> If you want to be part of this group...
The Working Group Generating Free Knowledge in the Wikisphere [edit] is a open space creation and collaborative documentation using pads and semantic wiki technology (“Semantic MediaWiki”). This proposal was born within the research line of Citizen Journalism 2014-2015 Medialab - Prado coordinated by Patricia Horrillo (@PatriHorrillo), initiator of the 15M.cc project (belonging to the Commons Laboratory) and of 15Mpedia.org.
The initial objective of the group was bring these powerful editing tools to anyone interested in telling and documenting lives, concepts, works or events. In addition, it is addressed with a collaborative development experience This helps to modify the preconceived idea of individual content creation. Another objective of the group is to break with fears that many people feel when approaching a wiki environment (not intuitive and quite hostile), as well as value individual contributions to the collective narrative of History, which is OUR History.
If all this generates some kind of interest, curiosity or concern, write me to wikiesfera@gmail.com and I'll put you on the mailing list that we have created to communicate with each other.
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