Getting Started with PoP and Wikipedia[edit]

Creation[edit]

Create your Wikipedia account.
Add your Username to your group's section on WP:USPP/PoP2011

Reading[edit]

Your homework this week is to read:
Lessig, Lawrence Chapter 2 (pages 31-48). Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. 2004. Available in print and for free online in a variety of formats.

Then post your response by editing the discussion part of this page. You can edit the discussion section by clicking in the top left corner on "Discussion" near "Project page" and then editing the page using the link in the top right corner.

Remember[edit]

You sign your comment with ~~~~ (4 tildes) and
to indent to indicate response type some ":" (colons).

If you have trouble with anything don't worry, just email maxklein at berkeley dot edu.

Questions[edit]

Then answer on this page's discussion tab one of the following questions or respond to another student's comment:

In the way that Lessig states that the Kodak’s biggest breakthrough “was not economic. It was social.” (33) Are currently contested technologies great implications economic or social?
In photography’s history “Freedom was the default.” (34) With the advent of digital rights permission is the default. Is there a reason to choose either freedom or permission initially (with or without the flexibility to change later)?
Lessig describes the new languages that we are brought up with, and simulataneously shining light on the possibility, “the crucial point: it could be both read write.” (37) Do we have a read-write culture around the picked-on old format: text?
Of all the innovation and advantages to new media such as blogs and collaborative software, can you foresee any malevolent uses and should they be regulated rather than receiving free passes for being novel inventions?

Reminders[edit]

To answer adequately your responses should be about a paragraph in length.
Two students each week will have their comments selected as a featured comment and receive a small amount of extra credit.

Videos[edit]

HowTo Wiki videos[edit]

A list of HowTo Wiki videos User:Basket of Puppies made. Please feel free to share! The audio might be low so please turn up your volume.

Create an account on Wikipedia

Create a userpage

Create a sandbox

Turn off the Jimbo Wales fundraiser box

Creating a test article, including references

Adding an image to Wikipedia and inserting it in an article

Adding articles to your watchlist

Using the article and user talk pages

Assessing an existing article for improvement

Article assessment grades- what do they mean?

Evolution of an article, from beginning to Good Article