Those who worked on Wikistories & its sister projects at some point might appreciate this effort:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vasilis Kostakis <[email protected]> Hello everyone, With the chance of this call, I'd like to share an idea proposal about the potential of technology to help theaters. Starting question: Could a theatrical play be developed as a Wikipedia entry? In 2014 we (i.e. the P2P Lab) created a "wikitheater" platform with the aim to experiment with the write-up of a theatrical play in a similar fashion with Wikipedia. In a month, a play in Greek was written by 5 people who had never met. Till now the play has been performed by more than 13 teams (professional and amateur) in 7 Greek cities. It is available under a CC license that allows further development, and free use by non-profits, while the for-profit teams give us a fee to sustain this commons. It became obvious that it is possible to produce a coherent narrative by fulfilling the main criteria of the successful commons-based peer production projects. To cut a long story short: modularity; granularity; and low-cost of integration. The design of the plot took all these characteristics into consideration: A man is committing suicide falling from the 24th floor of his company's skyscraper. While he is falling, ready to face his death, time distorts. So he is observing what is happening in each floor and before he dies -yes, he dies but some have even changed the ending-, he regrets his decision to commit suicide. Floor = one module (like a lego brick). You (i.e., actor, director, audience etc) are free to experiment with these lego bricks, take some of them out or/and add your own and so on. This project was documented in a paper <http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/New-Media-Society.pdf> published by *New Media & Society*. However, since then the case has considerably advanced. But we cannot keep up with what has been happening in Greece with this play. Once, we intended to translate the basic structure of the project in English. We could do that as long as we find people to pass the baton to them after that. _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l
