The Powerhouse is coming up to the 2nd anniversary of our joining the Commons on Flickr. Back when we joined there was only the Library of Congress and we trusted that we were making the correct decision back then. (I’ll be blogging an interview with Paula Bray around the time of the anniversary.) A lot [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Wikis'
Why Flickr Commons? (and why Wikimedia Commons is very different)
January 25th, 2010 8 Comments
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Some thoughts: post #GLAM-WIKI 2009
August 9th, 2009 4 Comments
Photography by Paula Bray License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 (Post by Paula Bray) Seb and I have just spent two days at a conference, in the nation’s rather chilly capital that involved a bunch of Wikimedians (wonder what that would be called) and members from the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries and Museum sector) sector. [...]
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Help out with direct input into the Australian Government 2.0 Issues Paper
July 20th, 2009 2 Comments
As regular readers know I am on the (Australian) Government 2.0 Taskforce. We’ve just released an alpha version of our Issues Paper and we’d like you to add your comments and input. I’m especially interested in input from the web developers and creative nerds, as well as from the government-funded cultural sector – who I’m [...]
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Working with Wikipedia – Backstage Pass at the Powerhouse Museum
April 2nd, 2009 3 Comments
I like the notion that Noam Cohen raises in his recent New York Times article where Wikipedia is compared to a city. It is this sidewalk-like transparency and collective responsibility that makes Wikipedia as accurate as it is. The greater the foot traffic, the safer the neighbourhood. Thus, oddly enough, the more popular, even controversial, [...]
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Implementing an internal wiki – Dan Collins on the Powerhouse’s rollout of Confluence
December 23rd, 2008 7 Comments
Wikis are the sort of knowledge management tool that you’d immediately think of as having great value to museums. However it seems that in the sector they are rarely found outside of IT departments – if at all. We’ve been looking at them at the Powerhouse for quite a few years now. We tried simple [...]
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Googlepedia/Knol and Wikipedia
December 19th, 2007 3 Comments
Open Culture provides a withering examination of Google’s Knol project and in so doing draws out some of the strengths of the Wikipedia approach in terms of collaborative production. In the discussion of the Knol project, Dan Colman speaks of some the fundamental shortcomings in the Knol approach, shortcomings that Wikipedia’s approach has been able [...]
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Wikipedia, Wikiscanner, revealing the hidden power struggles over knowledge production
August 14th, 2007 1 Comment
Last week featured a rather robust debate in the office about whether museums should encourage the use of Wikipedia, and, perhaps participate in adding and editing entries themselves. Now most Fresh + New readers will be familiar with the arguments – they’ve been around since Wikipedia began. Of course what most anti-Wikipedians, if they don’t [...]
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A reminder about ‘participation inequality’
June 8th, 2007 Comments Off
I’m busy preparing a couple of new and remixed presentations for delivery in the northern hemisphere in the next few weeks and Tony Walker over at the ABC reminded me about this excellent summary of Participation Inequality by usability evangelist Jakob Nielsen. How to Overcome Participation Inequality You can’t. The first step to dealing with [...]
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