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'''MeatballWiki''' is a [[wiki]] dedicated to [[online community|online communities]], [[culture]], and [[hypermedia]]. Founded in 2000, its original goal was to focus on collaborative hypermedia, but current topics range from [[intellectual property]] to [[cyberpunk]] to the confusion of [[Uniform Resource Identifier|URI]]s.<ref>http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MeatballWiki</ref> |
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MeatballWiki started as a friendly [[fork (software development)|fork]] of [[WikiWikiWeb]], the first Wiki to be created, and is still one of the sister companies of WikiWikiWeb. It uses the [[UseModWiki]] [[wiki engine]] developed by Clifford Adams. MeatballWiki also hosts various project journals; in particular, it has influenced much of the design of UseModWiki. |
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Because of its role as a community about communities, it has become the launching point for various other wiki-based projects, and a central resource for the wider wiki community. MeatballWiki is like a "[[Grand Central Terminal|Grand Central Station]]" of a wiki tour bus system. While its aims do not explicitly include becoming a ''centre'' of this community, the content it produces is well-suited to use as reference materials elsewhere. |
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One of the key concepts on MeatballWiki is "[[barn raising]]". [[Sunir Shah]] created the first internet [[barnstar]] award there.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} |
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Meatball is a loose grouping of people who are interested in online communities, culture and hypermedia. We talk mostly on MeatballWiki. The original goal was to focus on collaborative hypermedia but topics have ranged from intellectual property to cyberpunk to the confusion of uniform resource identifiers. Occasionally, some of us bother to stop blathering and do some real work. You'll find some project journals on MeatballWiki too. |
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==The Founding of MeatballWiki== |
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MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by Ontarian [[website]] [[Forum administrator|administrator]] [[Sunir Shah]] on [[Clifford Adams]]'s Internet domain usemod.com.<ref>http://www.wikiindex.org/MeatballWiki</ref>. It began as a friendly [[fork (software development)|fork]] from the original [[WikiWikiWeb]] created by [[Ward Cunningham]], in order to provide a place to have discussions about Wiki outside of the original WikiWikiWeb. <ref>http://www.aboutus.org/MeatballWiki</ref> |
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Ward Cunningham created WikiWikiWeb with a primary focus on [[design pattern (computer science)| computer programming design patterns]]. While the scope of WikiWikiWeb was broad and free-wheeling, users who strayed too far from the focus were considered by some to be [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiSquatting WikiSquatting], which means developing their own separate community within the WikiWikiWeb. Some users felt that those who wanted to engage in discussions about the wiki itself and how it operated, referred to as [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiOnWiki WikiOnWiki] discussions, were going beyond the scope of WikiWikiWeb. <ref> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:Constructionism_and_reductionism_%28wiki%29</ref> MeatballWiki was therefore created as a place for such discussions. As Sunir Shah stated in the WikiWikiWeb page referring to [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MeatballWiki 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.”<ref>http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MeatballWiki</ref> |
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==MeatballWiki and UseModWiki== |
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In particular, it has influenced much of the design of the software that runs this site, UseModWiki, as well as other wikis. |
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MeatballWiki is located on Clifford Adams's Internet domain [http://usemod.com usemod.com], on which Adams also runs the [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl UseModWiki forum], which is a wiki about the [[UseModWiki]] [[wiki engine]]. MeatballWiki and UseModWiki are thus two separate wikis located on the same Internet domaine and using identical UseModWiki software. <ref>http://www.wikiindex.org/MeatballWiki</ref> |
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As host to numerous wiki-related project journals, MeatballWiki has in turn influenced much of the design of UseModWiki. For most of 2001, UseModWiki was also used to run all versions of Wikipedia.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UseModWiki</ref>. These interrelationships led to MeatballWiki exercising a major influence on the Wikipedia community, as shown by numerous references to MeatballWiki on the [[Meta-wiki| Wikimedia Foundation’s]] [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta-Wiki Meta-Wiki] site. |
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==MeatballWiki and the Wiki Community== |
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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 has become the launching point for other wiki-based projects and a general resource for broader wiki concepts. <ref>http://www.aboutus.org/MeatballWiki</ref> 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. <ref>http://www.wikiindex.org/MeatballWiki</ref> |
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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. <ref>http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/abstracts/114.html</ref> |
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The MeatballWiki members have created a clever, creative “bus tour” of wikis <ref>http://www.sitepoint.com/article/what-is-a-wiki/4</ref>, which begins at the [http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TourBusStop TourBusStop]. |
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One of the key concepts on MeatballWiki is [[barn raising]], which is when a community gathers to take on a specific goal, providing a social event wherein members of a community learn about each other and become knit together.<ref>http://www.aboutus.org/MeatballWiki</ref> |
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[[Sunir Shah]] created the first internet [[Wikipedia:Barnstars| Barnstar]] award on MeatballWiki. The concept of "Barnstars" used on MeatballWiki, Wikipedia and many other wikis is a way of recognizing, awarding and celebrating specific individuals within the community who helped with the monumental tasks. |
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==References== |
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Yes, this is a shameless plug to provide a Wiki:WikiQuicki. Don't hurt me. -- SunirShah |
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==See also== |
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*[[UseModWiki]] |
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*[[WikiWikiWeb]] |
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*[[History of wikis]] |
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*[[InterWiki]] |
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*[[Online communities]] |
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*[[Wikipedia:Barnstars]] |
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*[[Wikipedia:TourBusStop]] |
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*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not MeatballWiki]] |
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*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:Constructionism_and_reductionism_%28wiki%29 Meta-Wiki article on Constructionism and Reductionism] |
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==External links== |
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*[[MeatBall: MeatballWiki| MeatballWiki home page]] |
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*[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MeatballWiki MeatballWiki page on WikiWikiWeb] |
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*[http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886141.htm Business Weekly Article, mentioning MeatballWiki] |
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*[http://elvis.rowan.edu/~hartley/Courses/ComputersAndSociety/Articles/2004/AP-Sharing-Knowledge-Online.html AP article, mentioning MeatballWiki] |
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Revision as of 11:36, 24 December 2007
MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, culture, and hypermedia. Founded in 2000, its original goal was to focus on collaborative hypermedia, but current topics range from intellectual property to cyberpunk to the confusion of URIs.[1]
MeatballWiki started as a friendly fork of WikiWikiWeb, the first Wiki to be created, and is still one of the sister companies of WikiWikiWeb. It uses the UseModWiki wiki engine developed by Clifford Adams. MeatballWiki also hosts various project journals; in particular, it has influenced much of the design of UseModWiki.
Because of its role as a community about communities, it has become the launching point for various other wiki-based projects, and a central resource for the wider wiki community. MeatballWiki is like a "Grand Central Station" of a wiki tour bus system. While its aims do not explicitly include becoming a centre of this community, the content it produces is well-suited to use as reference materials elsewhere.
One of the key concepts on MeatballWiki is "barn raising". Sunir Shah created the first internet barnstar award there.[citation needed]
The Founding of MeatballWiki
MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by Ontarian website administrator Sunir Shah on Clifford Adams's Internet domain usemod.com.[2]. It began as a friendly fork from the original WikiWikiWeb created by Ward Cunningham, in order to provide a place to have discussions about Wiki outside of the original WikiWikiWeb. [3]
Ward Cunningham created WikiWikiWeb with a primary focus on computer programming design patterns. While the scope of WikiWikiWeb was broad and free-wheeling, users who strayed too far from the focus were considered by some to be WikiSquatting, which means developing their own separate community within the WikiWikiWeb. Some users felt that those who wanted to engage in discussions about the wiki itself and how it operated, referred to as WikiOnWiki discussions, were going beyond the scope of WikiWikiWeb. [4] MeatballWiki was therefore created as a place for such discussions. 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.”[5]
MeatballWiki and UseModWiki
MeatballWiki is located on Clifford Adams's Internet domain usemod.com, on which Adams also runs the UseModWiki forum, which is a wiki about the UseModWiki wiki engine. MeatballWiki and UseModWiki are thus two separate wikis located on the same Internet domaine and using identical UseModWiki software. [6]
As host to numerous wiki-related project journals, MeatballWiki has in turn influenced much of the design of UseModWiki. For most of 2001, UseModWiki was also used to run all versions of Wikipedia.[7]. These interrelationships led to MeatballWiki exercising a major influence on the Wikipedia community, as shown by numerous references to MeatballWiki on the Wikimedia Foundation’s Meta-Wiki site.
MeatballWiki and the 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. Being a community about communities, MeatballWiki has become the launching point for other wiki-based projects and a general resource for broader wiki concepts. [8] 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. [9] 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 have created a clever, creative “bus tour” of wikis [11], which begins at the TourBusStop.
One of the key concepts on MeatballWiki is barn raising, which is when a community gathers to take on a specific goal, providing a social event wherein members of a community learn about each other and become knit together.[12]
Sunir Shah created the first internet Barnstar award on MeatballWiki. The concept of "Barnstars" used on MeatballWiki, Wikipedia and many other wikis is a way of recognizing, awarding and celebrating specific individuals within the community who helped with the monumental tasks.
References
- ^ http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MeatballWiki
- ^ http://www.wikiindex.org/MeatballWiki
- ^ http://www.aboutus.org/MeatballWiki
- ^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:Constructionism_and_reductionism_%28wiki%29
- ^ http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MeatballWiki
- ^ http://www.wikiindex.org/MeatballWiki
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UseModWiki
- ^ http://www.aboutus.org/MeatballWiki
- ^ http://www.wikiindex.org/MeatballWiki
- ^ http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/abstracts/114.html
- ^ http://www.sitepoint.com/article/what-is-a-wiki/4
- ^ http://www.aboutus.org/MeatballWiki
See also
- UseModWiki
- WikiWikiWeb
- History of wikis
- InterWiki
- Online communities
- Wikipedia:Barnstars
- Wikipedia:TourBusStop
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not MeatballWiki
Wikimedia Meta-Wiki: