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This website operates under [[MediaWiki]] software and thus has the potential to be a [[Wiki|wiki]]. However, the site is protected against random editing, which means that you must create a user account to edit articles. In addition, at present only [[WikiSysop]] can create new accounts, because the wiki was recently spammed (read the details at [[Spam Attack]]). The site thus currently operates as the personal database of [[User:MichaelSlattery|Michael Slattery]], who hopes that it may be of use to others. Note that the [http://ctwiki.ouvaton.org Convivial Projects Wiki] is still (for the moment) a "real" wiki, although as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Wiley David Wiley] says: "A wiki without contributors is nothing but a blog on steroids." | This website operates under [[MediaWiki]] software and thus has the potential to be a [[Wiki|wiki]]. However, the site is protected against random editing, which means that you must create a user account to edit articles. In addition, at present only [[WikiSysop]] can create new accounts, because the wiki was recently spammed (read the details at [[Spam Attack]]). The site thus currently operates as the personal database of [[User:MichaelSlattery|Michael Slattery]], who hopes that it may be of use to others. Note that the [http://ctwiki.ouvaton.org Convivial Projects Wiki] is still (for the moment) a "real" wiki, although as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Wiley David Wiley] says: "A wiki without contributors is nothing but a blog on steroids." | ||
| − | ==Narrative Summary== | + | ==Introduction to the Narrative Summary== |
| + | The narrative presented on this page is a roughly chronological summary of various incarnations of the idea of [[Convivial Tools]]. | ||
| + | As described in [[Ivan Illich]]'s book [[Tools for Conviviality]] (1973), [[Convivial Tools]] are those which enhance the independent efficiency of the users. At the same time, Illich foresaw the development of the internet before there was an internet, and understood that certain types of tools would be developed and maintained by the community that uses them. | ||
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| + | The roots of the philosophy of [[Convivial Tools]] go back at least to the French Enlightenment and the first Encyclopedists. For an outline of the critique of industrial technology over the past two hundred years, see the article [The Roots of Conviviality]. | ||
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| + | The various incarnations of the idea of [[Convivial Tools]] include, in roughly chronological order, the following: | ||
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| + | *Whole Earth Catalog and its offshoots | ||
| + | *Ivan Illich's philosophy of Convivial Tools | ||
| + | *Hacker generation of the seventies and eighties | ||
| + | *Free and Open Source Software movements | ||
| + | *Wikis | ||
| + | *Open Design | ||
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| + | [[#Wikis]] | ||
==Whole Earth== | ==Whole Earth== | ||
