Speaker: Maury Markowitz
This month’s speaker will be Maury Markowitz, discussing how Wikipedia is addressing the problem of ensuring truth in articles. Maury is a renowned Wikipedia editor with over 1,000 new articles and over 20,000 edits to his name. Maury works at a Toronto hedge fund firm where he is the programmer-on-call.
Note new Location! The […]
Tim Berners-Lee’s intended the web to be writeable by all. Yet, for decades it’s been stuck in a “read mostly” mode. Everyone web surfs, some add content but very few really get to fundamentally re-express and re-structure web content. We know this. We wiki. Problem is, many don’t.
Today marks the launch of the Universal Edit […]
Those of you who subscribe to my blog for my wiki-related entries might have noticed an uncanny silence here recently, especially given my position as Chair for Demos and Posters at WikiSym 2008
Well, its not that I’ve been silent. I’ve just been talking in a different room, i.e. on the WikiSym blog! Here’s a round […]
It’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday time!
Continuing our 2008 Toronto Wiki Tuesday Guest Speaker Series,
Vanessa Peters (PhD Candidate, OISE) will lead discussions next Tuesday at Toronto Wiki Tuesday
at another new location, GROUNDHOG PUB.
http://www.torontowikituesdays.com/twiki/bin/view/TorontoWikiTuesdays/WikisInEducationMay2008
Here’s Vanessa’s description:
In this meeting I will discuss a new wiki-based scripted activity that was created for secondary school biology students. Using a co-design method, […]
What’s being presented and about our speaker:
As part of the 2008 Toronto Wiki Tuesday Guest Speaker Series, Adrian Fritsch (Software Consultant and founder of debatum.org) will lead discussions at Toronto Wiki Tuesday at Epicure Cafe, Here’s Adrian’s event description:
What: Toronto Wiki Tuesdays: using Wikis to Debate
The problem:
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A bit of news - I’ve been asked to be on committee to hold the position of Chair for Demos and Posters at WikiSym 2008 in Portugal this September.
This is great as I’ll not only see breaking ideas as they happen around the world, but also be responsible to evaluate them and help them […]
Last month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday marked a turning point. For the next 3 months in 2008 we have speakers lined up! To date I have usually lead a conversation based on my work with clients but I much prefer to not have to be center-stage all of the time.
Talks at Toronto Wiki Tuesdays usually […]
I arrived last night in Montreal for the Wiki Symposium at OOPSLA after a brief trip to the UK. http://ws2007.wikisym.org/space/start is the wiki.
Come join us on IRC channel #wikisym on freenode.net.
I’ll be running an Open Space session on http://WikiConsulting.com/ looking to hear how to quickly add value to our field.
Today I’m wearing a grey with […]
Wikis - Making Sense out of a House of Shards(c) Martin@Cleaver.org2 December 2004
A wiki can be a posting board, knowledge base, project tracker, photo album, and discussion forum. It’s all of these, yet none alone does it justice. Even for the most experienced, a Wiki can be infuriatingly difficult to classify!
From a linguistic perspective, the […]
Note: I no longer work with Helix Commerce.
Some of my readers will know me from presenting with Bill Ives at KMWorld on the topic of Blogs and Wikis. Well, Bill, Cindy and I have teamed with IBM to provide a training version for corporations and the public.
Here’s an extract from our marketing literature:
Blogs and […]
