slides by Simon Grant for second part of Cetis 14 conference session on "Open Knowledge: Wikipedia and Beyond" on 2014-06-17

1. Beyond Wikipedia
An idea for an activity to take us ...
... beyond Wikipedia ...
... somewhere ...
... together ...
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2. Co-creating the knowledge commons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_commons
Wikipedia is a major platform for the knowledge
commons, living between the horns of a dilemma
• Areas that lack much shared interest:
• Little motivation to engage or correct
• Patchy, questionable accuracy
• Areas that many people are passionate about
• Likelihood of contradictory views
• Potential for edit wars
• Can we grow the sweet spot in between? Maybe
also for resources that are not encyclopedic?
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3. The Five Pillars
Fundamental principles by which the Wikimedia
community operates...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
Wikipedia:
1. is an encyclopedia
2. is written from a neutral point of view
3. is free content that anyone can
edit / use/ modify / share
4. editors should respect each other
5. does not have any firm rules
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TheFivePillarsagain

4. The fourth pillar verbatim
“ Editors should treat each other with respect and
civility: Respect your fellow Wikipedians, even when
you disagree. Apply Wikipedia etiquette, and don't
engage in personal attacks. Seek consensus, avoid edit
wars, and never disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.
Act in good faith, and assume good faith on the part of
others. Be open and welcoming to newcomers. If a
conflict arises, discuss it calmly on the nearest talk
pages, follow dispute resolution, and remember that
there are [very many] articles on the English Wikipedia
to work on and discuss.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility
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5. Do people do that?
• More? Or less? Why or why not? Are they capable?
• Could we see, in play here,
• attitudes and skills
• underpinned by knowledge
• effectively constituting a governance “culture”?
• Training, or enculturation, to work with a constructive
approach to multiple points of view?
• Imagine we could develop a knowledge commons
where we could trust people to behave like that
• Wouldn’t that be an even more valuable resource?
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6. Your mission
(should you decide to accept it...)
• Test your combined imagination by taking one first
step towards being able to constitute this
• Governance: effective methods
• A course: outline curriculum design
• Intended learning outcomes: a framework
• A badge: design; specification of evidence
• Assessment:
• How would you spot these abilities?
• How would you test or check them out?
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7. Where this could go
• Write something down from what emerges
• If more than one team, present to each other
• Reflect on experience and discuss
• Highlights to be fed back to Conference team
• Write blogs if you are so moved
• Collaborate in setting up courses, etc...
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Outcomesofactivity

8. These slides, “Beyond Wikipedia” by Simon Grant, Cetis, are licensed
under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence
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Slides and further information may be available at Simon Grant’s Cetis blog,
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