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WIKI’S AND COLLABORATIVE REPOSITORIES

CS3106 | Social Computing | Assignment 2 Adolfo Jose Arias De La Vega [10104623] Stephen Bracken [10104551] Paul Rooney [10103384]

INTRODUCTION TO

• Hawaiian word meaning “quick” or “fast”

• Rise in popularity

• Used in business A BRIEF HISTORY OF COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACES

• Vannevar Bush, 1945

• Memex

• ZOG A BRIEF HISTORY OF WIKIS

• First 1994.

• Ward Cunnignham, Michigan City, Indiana, USA

• Wikiwikiweb

• Written in

• Wiki Base & Wiki Clones A BRIEF HISTORY OF WIKIS

• GNUPedia, 1999, Richard Stallman

• Nupedia.com, 2000, Jimmy Wales

• Wikipedia, 2001, Jimmy Wales A BRIEF HISTORY OF WIKIS

• FlexWiki, 2004, Microsoft

• Amapedia, 2010, Amazon

• Wikipedia, 6th most popular website CHARACTERISTICS OF WIKIS

• Easy to edit

• Virtually no learning curve

• Allow anyone to edit

• Encourage knowledge sharing & collaboration CHARACTERISTICS OF WIKIS

• Foster a feeling of ownership

• Easily searchable

• Available history of page revisions

• Flat hierarchy

CO-CREATION

You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it. (Albert Einstein) 4 types of co-creation:

• Club of experts

• Crowd of people

• Coalition of parties

• Community of kindred spirits

CO-CREATION

You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it. (Albert Einstein) 4 types of co-creation:

• Club of experts

• Crowd of people

• Coalition of parties

• Community of kindred spirits

THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS WIKI.....REALLY

• April 2013: 286 languages / 6th globally in traffic / 410 million readers worldwide /10 billion global page views every month.

• vs. Encyclopædia Britannica: 123 / 162 mistakes.

• 600 words a minute, 16 hours a day makes 17,000,000 words a month: 19 years.

• April 2012, Justin Knapp (nick “koavf”) made his 1 million edit. Still top

• The 1 billionth edit took place on the 16th April 2010. As of yesterday, 1,832,471,547 made

• “Dr Blofeld” is currently the top Wikipedian article creator: 94,186 articles.

ACTIVE COUNTERS IN ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA (YESTERDAY @ 20:20)

• Number of pages: 29,846,768 (includes non-articles)

• Number of content pages: 4,200,656

• Number of files: 804,075

• Number of edits: 604,645,152

• Number of Users: 18,732,248

• Number of administrators: 1,444

• Number of active users: 132,819 (users who have performed an action in the last 30 days).

10 MOST VIEWED ARTICLES ON ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA DURING 2012

• 1. Facebook...... 32,647,942 views

• 2. Wiki...... 29,613,759 views

• 3. Deaths in 2012...... 25,418,587 views

• 4. One direction...... 22,351,637 views

• 5. The Avengers(2012 film)...... 22,268,644 views

• 6. Fifty shades of Grey...... 21,779,423 views

• 7. 2012 phenomenon...... 20,619,920 views

• 8. The Dark Knight Rises...... 18,882,885 views

• 9. Google...... 18,508,719 views

• 10. The Hunter Games...... 18,432,626 views

10 MOST VISITED ARTICLES ON ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA LAST WEEK (1ST WEEK APRIL)

1. Maria Sibylla Merian (2,065,721 views)

2. Roger Ebert (1,060,420 views)

3. Calvinism (852,292 views)

4. Game of Thrones (820,555 views)

5. The Walking Dead (TV Series) (812,974 views)

6. North Korea (782,080 views)

7. April Fool’s Day (761,685 views)

8. Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm (733,466 views)

9. Gun control (530,446 views)

10. G-force (525,164 views)

IRELAND IN WIKIPEDIA

• The Irish Wikipedia (Vicipéid na Gaeilge) is the Irish-language version of Wikipedia, established in October 2003. The founder was Gabriel Beecham. On the 6th of April 2013 (2 days ago) it had 19,351 articles, making it the 96th largest Wikipedia by article count.

• By the 21st August 2011, the Wikipedia article named “Ireland” was being referenced (via incoming internal link) by another 32.809 pages within Wikipedia.

• In the first 7 days of April 2013, the article named “Ireland” had clocked 60.910 views in the English Wikipedia, ranking 390th in traffic.

WHO WRITES WIKIPEDIA? OTHER COLLABORATION PLATFORMS

• Yammer: a social network for enterprises.

• Jive: the self-proclaimed world's number 1 social business platform.

• Huddle: offers enterprise collaboration & content management in the cloud.

• Amazon Mechanical Turk: a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence.

• Innocentive: wisdom of the crowd being used to achieve innovative solutions to real problems. OTHER COLLABORATION PLATFORMS

• Kickstarter: the world’s largest funding platform.

• Sourceforge: to find, create and publish open source software for free.

• Brightidea: a cloud-based, end-to-end innovation management solution.

• Dell IdeaStorm: Dell wanting to gather relevant ideas from users.

• iStockphoto: an online royalty-free photography repository.

GROWTH OF WIKIPEDIA

4,500,000

4,000,000

3,500,000

3,000,000

2,500,000

2,000,000

1,500,000

1,000,000

500,000

0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Article count SUSTAINABILITY OF CORPORATE WIKIS

• Three major challenges

• Aligning Manager and Individual Contributor Expectations

• Content Organisation and Flexibility

• Positioning a wiki in an existing information ecology and corporate culture

COLLABORATIVE CREATIVE

• Video post-production

• Creative collaborative production

• hitRECord.org, 2005, Joseph Gordon- Levitt

• Short films, books, albums and even a variety TV show

• Finished productions are monetised and profits are shared amongst contributors

UNCONSCIOUS COLLABORATION

• Luis von Ahn, crowdsourcing pioneer

• One of the creators of CAPTCHA

• Scanning books, 30% unrecognised in books more than 50 years old

• Using reCAPTCHA to decipher text

• Google Books, entire New York Times Archive

CAPTCHA

• Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart