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

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

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

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

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 →
Session 1: Group approach. Differences between pads and wikis

Session 1: Group approach. Differences between pads and wikis

Yesterday we had the first meeting of the wiki editing working group. Without knowing how many people were going to attend initially, I just pointed out some very basic ideas to raise to the people who approached. There were six people (5 men and 1 woman) who already knew previously of several projects inside and outside Medialab. The result for me: a very nutritious and full of ideas first session. One of my interests in this group is to try to find out the reasons that lead to a certain resistance to...continue reading →