Andreas Lund and Ole Smordal of Informedia gave a talk about a (young) student classroom project that made me think of Wisdom Tools, the story-based e-learning company Marty started. They were talking about how the teacher in their study disappeared under the barrage of page content the kids were creating, and wondering what ways they [...]
Flowers for Amy
There’s a lovely little garden area in Odense, which must be the birthplace of Hans Christen Andersen. Since Amy couldn’t come herself — and because it probably violates some Danish law to actually pick them — I’m sending this bouquet to her via blog …
Doors of perception
This conference looks like something very interesting.
Apparently in the last incarnation, attendees spent the day applying wiki philosophy to home construction. Using some simple materials (fabric, tape, etc), anyone could add or change the community structure. It was described to me as an “octopus-like creation” stemming from conflicting design strategies. Some wanted large, open [...]
RE: Open Spaces (was Unconference)
Among the more pleasant surprises in Denmark is the presence of Open Spaces, a conference symbiote that provides an open forum for quality discussion. When I saw Gerard Muller pacing around in front of the big blank boards on the wall, I recognized it as an unconference which (for me) originated recently as part of [...]
Radeox Wiki Render Engine
Stephan Schmidt discussed some different strategies for creating wiki render engines, which translate wiki markup into HTML for display. Even with WYSIWYG editors, wiki render engines will still be needed to propagate wiki content. They can be engineered to be more intelligent and versatile.
There are three kinds of render engines: Custom parser (loops out of [...]
Translation the Wiki Way
The need for multilingual wiki content is growing. The means to maintain translations for multiple languages and ever-changing content, however, is left to humans and clumsy interfaces. A project by Alain Desilets, Lucas Gonzalez, Sebastien Paquet and Marta Stojanovic for the Institute for Information Technology (IIT) of the National Research Council (NRC) recognizes that not [...]
WikiSym 2006
The opening talks of WikiSym 2006 have begun in Odense, Denmark. The proceedings have now been published. In theory, they would have come in handy last week, but in practice I had way to much stuff for my available time to prepare anything. Angela Beesley (Wikimedia Foundation) was the keynote speaker, talking about “How and [...]