User:Illuminatusds/Stirling

=Themes to Discuss=


 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Toni's Links

It might be nice for me to go back and rip the five pillars apart a bit and talk about the neutral issue too, as well as the collaboration issue. This dovetails with Pierre Lévy and Henry Jenkins' discussion about collective intelligence and media literacies, I might talk about Open Source, like The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Doug Englebart and Gibbons et al's discussion of Mode 1 and Mode 2 knowledge production. Contrast with Lanier piece on Digital Maoism, and the idea of traditional gatekeeping and newer forms of publishing which require skill sets of what might be described as self- and peer-evaluation. The use of using wiki as a way to grow "minority" cultures, as we saw with some of the discussions in Cardiff, there are spaces for these places to act as kindling for other cultural stuff to happen. Democratisation is a key feature of these collectivist perspectives.

In Wikibooks the check in and pending changes workflow is a bit different to the wikipedia one, but not radically so. In fact those differences are interesting to point out to students. I think it's important to point out that Wikibook is just one part of an ecosystem and while you are engaging with people in all of them, the rules of engagement are slightly different between them.

Principles about secondary research don't really apply in the same way as they do within Wikipedia. This is an issue that also applies to the WikiCommons. Original content in these books could even include diagrams or illustrations uploaded to WikiCommons. then used within Wikibooks. So how does that affect issues connected to licensing and intellectual property, viz: which license would they use to share the content in Commons and why.

Another pillar of WP is the idea of neutral point of view. This too doesn't apply here. In Wikibooks, you should be free to express opinion, supported by the appropriate evidence, of course. I suppose this introduces the broader issue of tenor in writing.

We can also talk about the evaluation of sources.