User:Charles Matthews/OCR talk

Summary of talk given to the Open Cambridge Research Group in the Panton Arms, November 2014.


 * Jacob Bronowski

"No work gives you more than a journalistic summary of itself until you have also recreated it from the question 'Yes, I see what he was trying to do, but why did he try to do it that way?'"


 * Lisa Jardine

"...the Internet is reshaping the processes of communicating; my plea was that we look at and try to get some sense of the changing shape of communities, trying to think through where that might take us..."


 * Matthews

Non-journalistic summary of Wikipedia, under “crowdsourcing”: the expression of sociability


 * No “foreign bodies” (e.g. vandals, trolls, paid editors)
 * Shared view of general content policies
 * Readability and the manual of style
 * Articulation of the above, through talk etiquette and decentralised discussion
 * Self-assignment and means for efficent work controlled by individuals