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Monaco, National Day

2006-12-20

A day in the life of SamRose ..

Me: “Do you know what wikis are?”

Them: “Uhhhh I don’t know…”

Me: “Do you know what Wikipedia is?”

Them: “Oh, Yeah! I know what that is!”

Me: “Do you understand that Wikipedia is really a type of wiki site?”

Them: “No, I didn’t know that. What is a wiki again?”

Me: “So, how do you think all of that information got onto Wikipedia?”

Them: “I never really knew how it got there to be honest. I thought maybe it was a company or something?”

Me:“So, how did you find out about Wikipedia?”

Them: “Oh, my friend told me that I could find information there for papers I was writing for school.”

Me: “So, you didn’t realize that YOU can edit the pages on wikipedia”

Them: “No! Wow, that is awesome!”

…etc.

True. Or it goes:

“I can set up a wiki for your karaoke-club, if you want to? That’s done in a minute.”

“No, I don’t want something that everybody can edit.”

Anyhow. I tinted “edit this page” pink on the wikis I started so nobody can say “I didn’t see that” anymore.

Anybody senses a title for this thread already?

This one is long but we’re free ;)

People don’t know everybody can edit wiki and when they find out they think it’s awesome.
People don’t want to start a new wiki because they are afraid of the fact that everybody can edit it.

I just have been told to make a wiki on an university. A rather closed one – it’s for preparing the sylabus for the courses. I think it’s awesome idea, and was really excited about it. I’ve just been told to make sure about two things:

  • new users can be granted rights to view and edit some of the pages,
  • it is possible to add pages for new courses.

Somehow my excitement depleted :(.

(mattis: sheep, you know the university-wiki-center?)

A day in KeithHopper’s life outside of work:

“So, what is it you do again?”

“I design and build online environments to encourage effective user contribution and engage communities in addressing meaningful objectives.”

“What?”

“It’s like MySpace, but better”

“Oh. What do you do about all the pedophiles?”

…and so it goes.

Wiki would be more exciting if throngs of beautiful teenage girls were excited about developing collaboration technology.

AmberStraub would finally have an ah-hah moment, about why I do this.

Fortunately or unfortunately, this is not the case.

– “So, what do you do in your free time?”

– “Uhm… More programming!”

– “You’re weird…”

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