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MeatballWiki

MeatballWikiis awikidedicated toonline communities,networkculture,andhypermedia.[2]Containing a record of experience on running wikis, it is intended for "discussion about wiki philosophy, wiki culture, instructions and observations."[3]

MeatballWiki
Type of site
Wiki
Created bySunir Shah
URLmeatballwiki.org
Launched2000
Current statusActive (Read-only archive from 2013 to March 2021)
Content license
None (Content is copyrighted by MeatballWiki or respective authors.)[1]

According to founder Sunir Shah, it ran on "a hacked-up version ofUseModWiki".[4]In April 2013, after several spam attacks and a period of downtime, the site was made read-only.[5]In March 2021, the site was de-spammed and reopened for editing as part of a rebuilding effort alongsideWard's WikiandCommunity Wiki.[6]

Founding

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MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by Sunir Shah, aforum administratorfromOntario,Canada, onClifford Adams's Internet domain usemod.com.[7]MeatballWiki was created as a place for discussion aboutWard Cunningham'sWikiWikiWeband its operation, which were beyond the scope of WikiWikiWeb. As Sunir Shah stated in the WikiWikiWeb page referring to MeatballWiki: "Community discussions about how to run the community itself should be left here. Abstract discussions, or objective analyses of community are encouraged on MeatballWiki."[4]Shah created this site "as a friendlyforkof WikiWikiWeb. "About the Meatball project, the website says:" The web, and media like it, looks like a big bowl of meatball spaghetti. You've got content – the meatballs – linked together with the spaghetti. "[8]

According to Igor Nikolic and Chris Davis, MeatballWiki was spun off of thePortland Pattern Repository,the first wiki.[3]

Relationship to wiki community

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The original intent of MeatballWiki was to offer observations and opinions about wikis and theironline communities,with the intent of helping online communities, culture and hypermedia.[citation needed]

InGood Faith Collaboration,Joseph M. Reagle Jr.describes MeatballWiki as "the wiki about wiki collaboration".[9]Being a community about communities, MeatballWiki became the launching point for other wiki-based projects and a general resource for broader wiki concepts, reaching "cult status".[2]It describes the general tendencies observed on wikis and other online communities, for example the life cycles of wikis and people's behavior on them.[7]

What differentiates MeatballWiki from many online meta-communities is that participants spend much of their time talking about sociology rather than technology, and when they do talk about technology, they do so in a social context.[10]

The MeatballWiki members created a "bus tour" through existing wikis.[11][12]

Barnstars– badges that wiki editors use to express appreciation for another editor's work – were invented on MeatballWiki and adopted byWikipediain 2003.[13]

Evgeny Morozov ofBoston Reviewnotes that another Wikipedia norm around voting may also have stemmed from MeatballWiki.[14]

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Meatball Wiki: MeatballWikiCopyright".meatballwiki.org.Retrieved2021-07-04.
  2. ^abEbersbach, Anja; Glaser, Markus; Heigl, Richard; Warta, Alexander (2008).Wiki: Web Collaboration(2nd ed.).Springer Verlag.p. 430.ISBN978-3-540-68173-1.a community that has reached cult status and that focuses on virtual communities, network culture and hypermedia
  3. ^abNikolic, Igor; Davis, Chris (30 Apr 2012). "Self-Organization in Wikis". In Egyedi, Tineke M.; Mehos, Donna C. (eds.).Inverse Infrastructures: Disrupting Networks from Below.Edward Elgar Publishing.p. 114.ISBN9781849803014.
  4. ^ab"Meatball Wiki".C2.com.27 March 2006.Retrieved2007-12-28.
  5. ^RecentChanges;first archived"This page is read-only"page.
  6. ^Posts onmeatball:MeatballToDoandmeatball:SunirShah.
  7. ^ab"MeatballWiki".WikiIndex.4 October 2007.Retrieved2007-12-28.
  8. ^"Meatball Wiki: MeatballProject".meatballwiki.org.
  9. ^Reagle Jr., Joseph M.(2012).Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia.MIT Press.p. 60.ISBN9780262288705.
  10. ^Vaughan, K. T. L.; Jablonski, Jon; Marlow, Cameron; Shah, Sunir; Mayfield, Ross (2004)."Beyond the Sandbox: Wikis and Blogs That Get Work Done".ASIST 2004 Annual Meeting; "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts" (ASIST AM 04).Archived fromthe originalon 2007-10-12.Retrieved2007-12-28.
  11. ^"TourBusMap".meatballwiki.Retrieved18 March2016.
  12. ^Matias, Nathan (3 November 2003)."What is a Wiki?".SitePoint.SitePoint.Retrieved2007-12-28.
  13. ^Zhu, Haiyi; Kraut, Robert E.; Kittur, Aniket (2016)."A Contingency View of Transferring and Adapting Best Practices Within Online Communities".Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing.CSCW '16. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 729–743.doi:10.1145/2818048.2819976.ISBN9781450335928.Author's copy
  14. ^Morozov, Evgeny (November 5, 2009)."Edit This Page".Boston Review.Retrieved2023-10-04.
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