MeatballWiki
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| URL | MeatballWiki.org |
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| Type of site | Wiki |
| Created by | Sunir Shah |
| Launched | 2000 |
| Alexa rank |  1,021,354 (April 2013[update])[1] |
MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia.[2]
According to founder Sunir Shah, it runs "a hacked-up version of UseModWiki".[3]
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Founding [edit]
MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by Sunir Shah, a forum administrator from Ontario, Canada, on Clifford Adams's Internet domain usemod.com.[4] MeatballWiki was created as a place for discussion about Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb and its operation, which were beyond the scope of WikiWikiWeb. As Sunir Shah stated in the WikiWikiWeb page referring to MeatballWiki: "Community discussions about how to run the community itself should be left here. Abstract discussions, or objective analyses of community are encouraged on MeatballWiki."[3]
Relationship to wiki community [edit]
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. Being a community about communities, MeatballWiki became the launching point for other wiki-based projects and a general resource for broader wiki concepts and has reached "cult status".[2] It describes the general tendencies observed on wikis and other on-line communities, for example the life cycles of wikis and people's behavior on them.[4]
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.[5]
The MeatballWiki members have created a "bus tour" of wikis.[6]
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ "Meatballwiki.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ^ a b Ebersbach, Anja; Glaser, Markus; Heigl, Richard; Warta, Alexander (2008). Wiki: Web Collaboration (2nd ed.). Springer Verlag. p. 430. ISBN 978-3-540-68173-1. "a community that has reached cult status and that focuses on virtual communities, network culture and hypermedia"
- ^ a b "Meatball Wiki". C2.com. 27 March 2006. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ a b "MeatballWiki". WikiIndex. 4 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ 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). Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ Matias, Nathan (3 November 2003). "What is a Wiki?". SitePoint. SitePoint. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
