MeatballWiki
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| URL | MeatballWiki.org |
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| Type of site | Wiki |
| Created by | Sunir Shah |
| Launched | 2000 |
| Alexa rank |  642,613 (May 2012[update])[1] |
"MeatBall" redirects here. For the food, see Meatball.
MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia.[2]
Founded in 2000, its original goal was to focus on collaborative hypermedia, but current topics range from intellectual property to cyberpunk to the confusion of URIs.[citation needed]
According to founder Sunir Shah, it runs "a hacked-up version of UseModWiki".[3]
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Founding of MeatballWiki
MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by Sunir Shah, a forum administrator from Ontario, Canada, on Clifford Adams's Internet domain usemod.com.[4] It began as a fork from the original WikiWikiWeb created by Ward Cunningham[citation needed], in order to provide a place to have discussions about Wiki outside of the original WikiWikiWeb.[5]
Ward Cunningham created WikiWikiWeb with a primary focus on computer programming design patterns. While the scope of WikiWikiWeb was broad, users who strayed too far from the focus wanted to engage in discussions about the wiki itself and how it operated, referred to as WikiOnWiki discussions, were going beyond the scope of WikiWikiWeb.[6] MeatballWiki was therefore created as a place for such discussions. 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.”[3]
MeatballWiki and the wiki community
The original intent of MeatballWiki was to offer observations and opinions about wikis and their online communities, with the intent of helping online communities, culture and hypermedia. Being a community about communities, MeatballWiki has become the launching point for other wiki-based projects and a general resource for broader wiki concepts and has reached "cult status".[2] It describes the general tendencies observed on wikis and other on-line communities, for example the life cycles of wikis and people's behavior on them.[4]
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.[7]
The MeatballWiki members have created a "bus tour" of wikis.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "Meatballwiki.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/MeatballWiki.org. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
- ^ a b Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser, Richard Heigl, Alexander Warta: Wiki. Web Collaboration. 2nd Edition. Springer Verlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-35150-4 p.430: "a community that has reached cult status and that focuses on virtual communities, network culture and hypermedia"
- ^ a b "Meatball Wiki". C2.com. 2006-03-27. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MeatballWiki. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ a b "MeatballWiki". WikiIndex. 2007-10-04. http://www.wikiindex.org/MeatballWiki. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ "UseMod.com". AboutUs. 2007-07-28. http://www.aboutus.org/MeatballWiki. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ meta:Transwiki:Constructionism and reductionism (wiki)
- ^ Vaughan, K. T. L.; et al. (2004). "Beyond the Sandbox: Wikis and Blogs That Get Work Done (SIG STI)". ASIST 2004 Annual Meeting; "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts" (ASIST AM 04). http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/abstracts/114.html. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
- ^ Matias, Nathan (2003-11-03). "What is a Wiki?". SitePoint. SitePoint. http://www.sitepoint.com/print/what-is-a-wiki. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
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