MeatballWiki
Type of site | Wiki |
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Created by | Sunir Shah |
URL | meatballwiki |
Launched | 2000 |
Current status | Active (Read-only archive from 2013 to March 2021) |
Content license | None (Content is copyrighted by MeatballWiki or respective authors.)[1] |
MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia.[2] Containing a record of experience on running wikis, it is intended for "discussion about wiki philosophy, wiki culture, instructions and observations."[3]
According to founder Sunir Shah, it ran on "a hacked-up version of
Founding
MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by Sunir Shah, a
According to Igor Nikolic and Chris Davis, MeatballWiki was spun off of the Portland Pattern Repository, the first wiki.[3]
Relationship to wiki community
The original intent of MeatballWiki was to offer observations and opinions about wikis and their online communities, with the intent of helping online communities, culture and hypermedia.[citation needed]
In Good Faith Collaboration, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. describes MeatballWiki as "the wiki about wiki collaboration".[9] Being a community about communities, MeatballWiki became the launching point for other wiki-based projects and a general resource for broader wiki concepts, reaching "cult status".[2] It describes the general tendencies observed on wikis and other online communities, for example the life cycles of wikis and people's behavior on them.[7]
What differentiates MeatballWiki from many online meta-communities is that participants spend much of their time talking about sociology rather than technology, and when they do talk about technology, they do so in a social context.[10]
The MeatballWiki members created a "bus tour" through existing wikis.[11][12]
Barnstars – badges that wiki editors use to express appreciation for another editor's work – were invented on MeatballWiki and adopted by Wikipedia in 2003.[13]
Evgeny Morozov of Boston Review notes that another Wikipedia norm around voting may also have stemmed from MeatballWiki.[14]
See also
References
- ^ "Meatball Wiki: MeatballWikiCopyright". meatballwiki.org. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-540-68173-1.
a community that has reached cult status and that focuses on virtual communities, network culture and hypermedia
- ^ ISBN 9781849803014.
- ^ a b "Meatball Wiki". C2.com. 27 March 2006. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ RecentChanges; first archived "This page is read-only" page.
- ^ Posts on meatball:MeatballToDo and meatball:SunirShah.
- ^ a b "MeatballWiki". WikiIndex. 4 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ "Meatball Wiki: MeatballProject". meatballwiki.org.
- ISBN 9780262288705.
- ^ Vaughan, K. T. L.; Jablonski, Jon; Marlow, Cameron; Shah, Sunir; Mayfield, Ross (2004). "Beyond the Sandbox: Wikis and Blogs That Get Work Done". ASIST 2004 Annual Meeting; "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts" (ASIST AM 04). Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ "TourBusMap". meatballwiki. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ Matias, Nathan (3 November 2003). "What is a Wiki?". SitePoint. SitePoint. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ Morozov, Evgeny (November 5, 2009). "Edit This Page". Boston Review. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
External links
- Official website
- Official website as of March 31, 2014 web.archive.org