Participation Literacy
Week#6 Wikis and Mashups
last update: March 21, 2009
Trebor Scholz

week 2
Conversation:
Overview, Getting Started Democracy and Blogging
week 1 Conversation:
week 3
Privacy and Social Networking
Attention Overload:
Search, Filter, Content Aggregation
Collective Action:
week 4 week 5 Flash Mobs, Activism, and Micro-Blogging
week 6
Collaboration:
week 7 Spring Break
Wikis, Wikipedia, Mashups Collaboration:
Collaborative Writing
week 8
Collaboration:
week 9
Social Mapping
Sharing
Cooperation: Media Sharing
week 10
Sharing
week 11
Referral, Tagging, Folksonomies Sharing
Piracy and File Sharing
week 12
week 13 Sharing
week 14 Copyright and Virtual Worlds
Social Bookmarking
Social Music Sites
week 15
Social Cataloging Sites
Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

Collaboration:
Wikis, Wikipedia, Mashups
week 6
March 3, 5
Required Reading:
Schiff, Stacy. \"Annals of Information: Know It All: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?\"
The New Yorker. 31 July 2006. 28 Jan. 2009
<http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact>.
Resources on wikis:
http://is.gd/fdZd
Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

Wikipedia

John Udellsʼ screen cast shows the gradual refinement of a Wikipedia article-- collective intelligence at work.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html

“Please be neutral when editing this highly sensitive article.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_conflict#Battle_of_Gaza_.282007.29

Every Wiki Entry Counts
\"’American media has seen certain narratives form, and not just about Israel but about China, Iran
and France,\" he says. ‘We see the same stories being recycled over and over again in the
mainstream media because it fits the narrative they'd created.’\"
“Wikipedia, Shankbone says, is different because it ‘covers everything’ - the Palestinian side, the
Israeli side and everything in between.“
\"’American media has seen certain narratives form, and not just about Israel but about China, Iran
and France,’ he says. ‘We see the same stories being recycled over and over again in the
mainstream media because it fits the narrative they'd created.’\"
He is unfazed when he hears that the entry on Israel mentions the word \"occupation\" nine times, whereas
the entry on the Palestinian People mentions \"terror\" only once. \"It means only one thing: Israelis should
be more active on Wikipedia. Instead of blaming it, they should go on the site much more, and try and
change it.\"
David Shankbone
(leading editor for the online encyclopedia Wikipedia)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/937991.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abortion&action=edit&section=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Islam&oldid=27501064

Collective Intelligence
“networked culture gives rise to new structures of power which stem from the ability of diverse
groups of people to pool knowledge, collaborate through research, debate interpretations, and
through such a collaborative process, refine their understanding of the world.”
Henry Jenkins http://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/11/collective_intelligence_vs_the.html
-share information
-correct, evaluate each other's contributions
-reach consensus

WikiScanner
http://virgil.gr/31 Who edits which entry?
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

Los Angeles Times suspends ‘Wikitorials’
Users flood paper’s Web site with foul language, pornography
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8300420/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits
Who are the Wikipedians?

Tapping into the wisdom of crowds through game play
“What he showed was a mockup of a Star Wars Galaxies medical
screen, displaying real medical imagery. Players were challenged to
advance as doctors by diagnosing the cancers displayed, in an effort to
capture the wisdom of crowds. The result? A typical gamer was found to
be able to diagnose accurately at 60% of the rate of a trained
pathologist. Pile 30 gamers on top of one another, and the averaged
result is equivalent to that of a pathologist — with a total investment of
around 60-100 hours per player.”
-- Ralph Koster
http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/01/04/treating-players-like-numbers/

Does the Wisdom of the Crowd work for art?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2xUzv6iZWo
> 50 million views
Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time
#2. Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend
Lavigne circulated versions of this video
in various languages
Chinese Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjPto9MlseM
Czech version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjPto9MlseM
Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend (Portugese Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqAlMCMbapk
Avril Lavigne Girlfriend Novia en Español
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSDMj_74OyU

http://www.howcast.com/
http://www.wikihow.com
nobody knows everything, everyone knows something

Uses of Wikis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJ1gVaoic4&feature=channel_page

http://amapedia.amazon.com/

Mashups

Mashups
Mashup (music), a musical genre of songs that consist entirely of parts of other songs
Mashup (video), a video that is edited from more than one source
Mashup (web application hybrid), a website or web application that combines content from more than one
source

Mashups
music and video

hundreds of songs remixed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAU_bYpQqb4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVDnFYsEPQE&feature=related
The Heavy Metal Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU6k4484vvg&feature=related

http://thru-you.com/

Mashups
photo

http://flickrvision.com/

http://www.qflick.com/

photosynth

http://cooliris.com/

Mashups
start pages

http://www.netvibes.com/#General

http://www.wikicrimes.org/main.html

http://platial.com/search?what=11238&where=world

http://www.wikimapia.org/beta/#lat=41.84&lon=‐87.68&z=19&l=0&m=b&v=1&search=chicago

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