On 12/06/13 09:12, Gordon Joly wrote:
On 12/06/13 08:02, Edward Saperia wrote:
Gordo;
It means designers of online communities; people who design digital
spaces for group interaction. This is a large and active area of
study, and Wikipedia is an interesting example because not only is it
active and well populated but the participants have created something
of enormous value. Imagine if World of Warcraft did the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_participation
Github is a digital space based around Git. Why don't you think it fits?
Thanks. Github is one of many. So it fits, but so many other software
suits and frameworks, going back a decade or two.
For example, Usenet?
Gordo
And, I must mention FLICKR, if only to gain some exposure, even if a
little off topic:-)
I have used FLICKR both as an online repository. But like Geocities,
some thing has changed in the past few weeks (Yahoo being a common
factor!!!)...
I have 28,000 images. I have tags and organised a large proportion, and
used the images in other projects. I have contributed many of my own
images to Wikimedia Commons. Images from FLICKR have been added by bots
as well.
I "moved" a community to FLICKR that did not do well as a Mediawiki. But
thrived on FLICKR.
Compare:
http://deadpubssociety.org.uk/index.php/List
http://deadpubssociety.org.uk/
with
http://www.flickr.com/groups/deadpubssociety/ (over 7,000 images)
I am also active in other "online community" groups on FLICKR. But that
has all changed with the past few weeks, with the new FLICKR which
promotes the image and obfuscates the semantics of the data.
Gordo
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