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Session 5: Experiencing collaborative editing and documentation

Posted on March 4, 2015
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In view of the activity scheduled for Saturday, March 7, an editathon on the occasion of International Women's Day, the group set out to do a collaborative editing experiment on a pad to later create the entry on Wikipedia. One of the participants spoke of the importance of a woman jurist, María Telo, and that at the time of raising it had no article in the free encyclopedia (after the various editathons on March 8, someone had already created the entry, so it could not be finished...continue reading →

Session 4: Types of users and difficulties. Feeling of belonging in the collective

Posted on February 25, 2015
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To start this fourth session, which was attended by three people (two women and one man) with quite different experiences, I explained the two legs of this working group in terms of analysis: the collective documentation (relating to the world of wikis) and the collaborative editing and creation of content (which is done on pads). Both parties generate difficulties and resistances that, as I saw in this meeting, are also related to affective elements and belonging to a community. > Wikipedia, difficulties and classes of users For these people...continue reading →

Session 3: Preparation of the editing marathon for Women's Day

Posted on February 18, 2015
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In this third meeting of the working group we were debating about the editathon, an activity in which several people come together with the aim of creating new content on Wikipedia, and that from the working group we will carry out on March 7 as an activity related to International Women's Day. Our proposal seeks to map the absence of content related to women, and we put the weight of the meeting in the process of creating content in a collaborative way. We were developing a series of proposals of how we could...continue reading →

Session 2: Collective development and programming. Wiki environment space in process

Posted on February 11, 2015
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In this second meeting of the working group we talked about the structure of 15Mpedia.org with wiki semantics, which allows crossing data and facilitating the relationship between various contents. We saw that the way of developing collectively has many similarities with programming in UNIX, LINUX philosophy, establishing similarities about the hive mind as a kind of market, as told in the story "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". We perceive the wiki environment, in general, as a triumph of the collective will, which contributes positively to the common. In 15Mpedia has been added...continue reading →