Difference between revisions of "MeatballWiki"
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The first wiki to use UseModWiki was Clifford Adams's own usemod.com site. The second was MeatballWiki, created by Adams and Sunir Shah and dedicated to online communities. MeatballWiki was installed on the same usemod.com website in 2000. For most of 2001, UseModWiki was used to run all versions of Wikipedia. WikiWikiWeb's sister wiki the Adjunct, started in 2005, also runs on UseModWiki. UseModWiki is probably the most popular wiki software due to the relatively little computing power required and its ease of installation. | The first wiki to use UseModWiki was Clifford Adams's own usemod.com site. The second was MeatballWiki, created by Adams and Sunir Shah and dedicated to online communities. MeatballWiki was installed on the same usemod.com website in 2000. For most of 2001, UseModWiki was used to run all versions of Wikipedia. WikiWikiWeb's sister wiki the Adjunct, started in 2005, also runs on UseModWiki. UseModWiki is probably the most popular wiki software due to the relatively little computing power required and its ease of installation. | ||
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| + | '''Other Wikipedia articles about MeatballWiki'''<br> | ||
| + | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_MeatballWiki<br> | ||
== MeatballWiki on other Websites == | == MeatballWiki on other Websites == | ||
| + | http://www.wikiindex.org/MeatballWiki<br> | ||
| + | MeatballWiki is a wiki forum running on the wiki engine UseModWiki and started by Ontarian computer fan SunirShah on CliffordAdams's Internet domain usemod.com. (Note that, despite being on the same Internet domain, MeatballWiki is not part of Adams's wiki forum for demonstration of the wiki engine UseModWiki and which, like the wiki engine, is also called UseModWiki.) MeatballWiki was started to avoid discussion of "Wiki on Wiki" (discussion about WikiWikiWeb on its own pages). MeatballWiki 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.<br> | ||
| + | MeatballWiki is a useful guide for on-line community practitioners, mostly in English, but a fair amount in French and some community members are German.<br> | ||
| + | Meatball also hosts the first TourBusStop, check out the WikiIndex:TourBusStop and is part of the RealNamesNetwork.<br> | ||
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| + | http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MeatballWiki<br> | ||
| + | http://www.aboutus.org/MeatballWiki<br> | ||
| + | Although they are run on the same Internet domain, MeatballWiki is not part of the forum for UseModWiki. Founded in 2000 by Sunir Shah, MeatballWiki started as a place to have discussions about Wiki in a place outside of the original WikiWikiWeb located on Ward Cunningham's C2.com. This was to prevent "Wiki on Wiki" discussions on WikiWikiWeb.<br> | ||
| + | The community at MeatballWiki is a vibrant one, with the intent of helping online communities, culture and hypermedia. They also offer observations about other wikis and online communities. MeatballWiki, being a community about communities has itself become the launching point for other wiki-based projects and is a defacto resource for broader wiki concepts such as TheWikiWay. | ||
| + | One of the key concepts of MeatballWiki is that of BarnRaising -- the community gathering and collectively building towards a specific goal. The idea stems from the thought that it is nearly impossible for one person to build a barn, but through a community actively deciding to take on a specific goal, collaboration happens in ways that make the impossible possible, along the way this provides a social event where in members of a community learn about each other and become friends and really knit together as a community. The concept of "Barnstars" used on MeatballWiki, Wikipedia and many other wikis comes from this as a way of awarding and celebrating individuals within the community who helped with the monumental tasks. | ||
| + | http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/abstracts/114.html<br> | ||
| + | Sunir Shah edits the MeatballWiki, a “metawiki” focused on building online communities. Self-defined as a "community of communities: an intercommunity or metacommunity", it seems to be a community only because it is a group of people that has come together online to talk about what it means to be a community. What differentiates the MeatballWiki from many online meta-communities is that participants spend most of their time talking about sociology rather than technology; and when they do talk about technology, they do so in a social context. | ||
| + | http://www.sitepoint.com/article/what-is-a-wiki/4<br> | ||
| + | Wikis make great community sites, as well. Many wiki software packages allow users to register for usernames, putting a face to all the changes a particular person makes. The MeatballWiki is a hub for such online communities. Wiki-ers from all over use to MeatballWiki to come together and link their wikis with each other. The MeatballWiki members have even created a clever, creative tour bus trip of wikis. | ||
| + | http://socialsynergy.typepad.com/social_synergy/2007/05/citizendium_san.html<br> | ||
| + | It seems that forking in wiki communities is almost inevitable. And, forking need not be adversarial in nature. For instance, MeatballWiki is a fork of the original WikiWikiWeb. Later, CommunityWiki was a fork of MeatballWiki. It was originally an adversarial fork, but relationships re-established over time, and now both communities are close. OBM Wiki Hive is a non-adversarial fork of CommunityWiki, and is set up as a "wiki hive" to encourage forking.<br> | ||
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