2003-01-09

Gotta write about the following things on MeatBallWiki – feel free to start ahead of me: MeatBall:AbsentLeaders (the unsolved riddle of wikiness: how to get a community rolling without a MeatBall:GodKing, using Meatball and Sunir’s absence as an example, as well as perpetual extension of the MeatBall:SeedPosting phase in some wikis), MeatBall:EnablingCreativity (the dos and donts of leaders that want a creative community that produces new ideas, be it code, content, or political campaigns – obviously related to absent leaders), MeatBall:ImplicitDiscrimination (sex, race, language, coding system, education, culture – on the web, on mailing lists – in online communities in general), rework the MeatBall:PostWELL thing (nice idea, but MeatBall:TheWell is a lost reference to most, it needs a new name and a shorter summary, a real hub), MeatBall:NeutralPointOfView (based on Sunir’s comments on wiki: They write everything like encyclopedia articles. I find encyclopaedia rather boring because they cannot create any new thought. This is all the However, deviating from the NPOV requires social skills because you no longer have an authority to gauge what is reasonable discourse or not. The more social skills required, the harder the collaboration, and the greater chance of failure. And myself: the pseudo-neutral point of view of traditional newspapers increases resignation, because it is “objective” therefore “true” therefore somehow immutable.)

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MeatBall:AbsentLeaders

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MeatBall:SeedPosting

MeatBall:EnablingCreativity

MeatBall:ImplicitDiscrimination

MeatBall:PostWELL

MeatBall:TheWell

MeatBall:NeutralPointOfView