In the late 1990s, I had the privilege of participating in some special online forums. Created by WebLab, the first forum was called Reality Check and was a response, primarily, to the partisan anger over the Clinton impeachment. WebLab developed a kind of forum called a Small Group Dialogue, which places a few simple limitations [...]
Open wikiness
There is a neat innovation that is going to happen with the German Wikipedia (if it hasn’t already). The engineered response to vandalism is going to give the community a new weapon: Version Flagging.
In Wikipedia, it is not uncommon for controversial articles to be subject to edit wars or vandalism. When the problem gets too [...]
Corporate Wikis
One of the clear interests for the wiki community is use of the medium within corporations. Christian Wagner presented findings from a survey of 168 participants. This was part of a larger project, and this particular survey (from the Fall 2005) targeted corporate wiki users.
The motivations for participation in a corporate wiki are similar to [...]