ooh! controversial! grin - "but what is neutral?" :-)
As an aside - I've put up the powerpoint presentation I gave to WikiSym06 Kake, feel
free to grab anything from it that may be of value (and others welcome to read). This was
to an audience of wiki developers/ wiki-academics so our angle was "how is the Open
Guide different from other wikis?" we stressed that it was a wiki for a community of
locality rather virtual communities, and some findings on types of users and issues of
sustainability.
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark/wikisym/Gaved_wikisym.ppt
OG to Milton Keynes is just in the middle of a "taxi company war" at the moment,
we seem to have a couple of taxi companies laying into each other, we're quite close
to having to lock down entries to do with taxis for a while till they calm down. We had
the same thing a year ago between two pizza companies :-)
The social side is indeed intriguing if the purpose of your Open Guide (I know we all have
different motivations) is to encourage an unknown local community to add content. After a
couple of years the MK OG is starting to see a trickle of unknown contributors. We started
as two university students and threw a workshop in the university and then heavily plugged
it amongst fellow students so I'd say the majority of contributors until recently were
"known" (or at least one connection away), but now we're picking up people
across Milton Keynes who we clearly don't know and have stumbled onto the site
somehow. For us this is good news as it feels that we're actually engaging more people
than our immediate social circle but of course as people have pointed out this means we
have more work to do. One of our concerns is sustaining the guide if it does take off
longer term, we need to find a way of encouraging other people to be active contributors,
editors, and possibly eventually admins.
regards
Mark
Mark Gaved
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, UK
MK7 6AA
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark
-----Original Message-----
From: openguides-dev-bounces(a)lists.openguides.org on behalf of Earle Martin
Sent: Thu 4/26/2007 12:06 PM
To: OpenGuides software developers' list
Subject: Re: [OGDev] wiki wednesdays.
On 26/04/07, Stephen Gower <socks-openguides.org(a)earth.li> wrote:
I dunno if it's useful or not useful, but the
wikinature means you
get obviously biased reviews, written by the owner of a place
trying to increase their pagerank. I'm nver sure how to edit
these!
I generally try and spot these and edit them into something
approximating "neutral point of view" (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NPOV) while letting honest reviews
through.
--
Earle Martin
http://downlode.org/
http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/
--
OpenGuides-Dev mailing list - OpenGuides-Dev(a)lists.openguides.org
http://lists.openguides.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openguides-dev