Type of site | Wiki |
---|---|
Created by | Sunir Shah |
URL |
meatballwiki |
Launched | 2000 |
Current status | Active (Read-only archive from 2013 to March 2021) |
Content license | None (Content is copyrighted by MeatballWiki or respective authors.) [1] |
MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia. [2] Containing a record of experience on running wikis, it is intended for "discussion about wiki philosophy, wiki culture, instructions and observations." [3]
According to founder Sunir Shah, it ran on "a hacked-up version of UseModWiki". [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 alongside Ward's Wiki and Community Wiki. [6]
MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by Sunir Shah, a forum administrator from Ontario, Canada, on Clifford Adams's Internet domain usemod.com. [7] MeatballWiki was created as a place for discussion about Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb and 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 friendly fork of 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 the Portland Pattern Repository, the first wiki. [3]
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.[ citation needed]
In Good 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 by Wikipedia in 2003. [13]
Evgeny Morozov of Boston Review notes that another Wikipedia norm around voting may also have stemmed from MeatballWiki. [14]
a community that has reached cult status and that focuses on virtual communities, network culture and hypermedia
Type of site | Wiki |
---|---|
Created by | Sunir Shah |
URL |
meatballwiki |
Launched | 2000 |
Current status | Active (Read-only archive from 2013 to March 2021) |
Content license | None (Content is copyrighted by MeatballWiki or respective authors.) [1] |
MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia. [2] Containing a record of experience on running wikis, it is intended for "discussion about wiki philosophy, wiki culture, instructions and observations." [3]
According to founder Sunir Shah, it ran on "a hacked-up version of UseModWiki". [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 alongside Ward's Wiki and Community Wiki. [6]
MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by Sunir Shah, a forum administrator from Ontario, Canada, on Clifford Adams's Internet domain usemod.com. [7] MeatballWiki was created as a place for discussion about Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb and 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 friendly fork of 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 the Portland Pattern Repository, the first wiki. [3]
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.[ citation needed]
In Good 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 by Wikipedia in 2003. [13]
Evgeny Morozov of Boston Review notes that another Wikipedia norm around voting may also have stemmed from MeatballWiki. [14]
a community that has reached cult status and that focuses on virtual communities, network culture and hypermedia