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WIDE OPENImplementing a class wiki

• Mark Phillipson
• CCNMTL University Seminar
• Columbia University
• October 27, 2005

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Wikis and collective authoring
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Wikipedias Alexander Hamilton entry (on
10/14/2005)
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Wikipedias Alexander Hamilton entry (on
10/24/2005)
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History flow rendering of Wikipedias Microsoft
entry, 11/2001 - 6/2003
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History flow rendering of Wikipedias Chocolate
entry, 12/2001-7/2003
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History flow rendering of Wikipedias Abortion
entry, 12/2001-6/2003, graphed by saved versions
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History flow rendering of Wikipedias Abortion
entry, 12/2001-6/2003, graphed by date
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Everything2 Alexander Hamilton page (on
10/14/2005)
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Breeding ground Open Source Software movement
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Various models of OSS development
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Ward Cunningham, progenitor of wikis
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A brief taxonomy of pedagogical wikis
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A student-authored resource wiki Social
Justice Movements
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A student-authored gateway wiki The
SaratogaCensus
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A student-authored simulation wiki The
Holocaust Project
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Student illuminated wikis - RAP1 (2003) and
RAP2 (2005)
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Background of the Romanticism Audience Project
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Lord Byron Shaking the Dust of England From His
Shoes - Max Beerbohm, 1916
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Letters to John Murray 1817 - 1819
Pray when I send you a parcel or packetdo
acknowledge itI care nothing about my letters or
your answersI only want to know, when I have
taken trouble about a thing that it has arrived.
When parcels that have cost some pains in the
composition, great trouble in the copying are
sent to you I should at least be put out of
Suspense by the immediate acknowledgement sic
per return of post.I am naturallyknowing what
continental posts areanxious to hear that they
are arrived.
Don Juan shall be an entire horse or none. In no
way will I have the poem mutilated
I will permit no curtailments. You shant make
Canticles of my Cantos.. I will have none of
your damned cutting and slashing
It is serious to mewho am thousands of miles
off have no opportunity of not proving myself
the fool yr. printer makes meexcept your
pleasure leisure forsooth. The Gods prosper
forgive you for I wont
The author doth kindly trustwith all due
deference to those superior personsthe publisher
and printerthat they will in futureless
misspellmisplacemistake and mis-everything, the
humbled M.S.S. of their humble Servant.
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Proof of Don Juan Canto I, with marginal jousting
between Byron and his London editors
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Illustration accompanying Mazeppa (1819)
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The Finding of Don Juan By Haidee - Ford Madox
Brown, 1873
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In times of old, books were as religious oracles
as literature advanced, they next became
venerable preceptors they then descended to the
rank of instructive friends and as their numbers
increased, they sunk still lower to that of
entertaining companions and at present they seem
degraded into culprits to hold up their hands at
the bar of every self- elected, yet not the less
peremptory, judge, who chuses to write from
humour or interest Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Biographia Literaria, 1817
With an unstable text that can be intruded upon
by other author-readers, how do you, caught in
the maze, avoid the trivial? How do you duck the
garbage? Venerable novelistic values like unity,
integrity, coherence, vision, voice, seem to be
in danger. Eloquence is being redefined. "Text"
has lost its canonical certainty. How does one
judge, analyze, write about a work that never
reads the same way twice? Sven Birkerts, The
Gutenberg Elegies, 1994
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The most important characteristics of modern
literature, are the extent of surface over which
it is diffused, and the number of persons that
participate in it. Indeed, if there be such a
thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out
by the collision of mind with mind. William
Godwin, Political Justice (1793)
No self is an island each exists in a fabric of
relations that is now more complex and mobile
than ever before a person is always located at
'nodal points' of specific communication
circuits
The truth of (a) statement and the competence of
its sender are subject to the collective
approval of a group of persons who are competent
on an equal basis. Jean-Francois Lyotard, The
Postmodern Condition (1984)
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Romanticism seminar website, UC Berkeley, 2000
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Envisioning RAP
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Comparing Wikis in 2002
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RAP demo Live page at http//ssad.bowdoin.edu
8668/space/WideOpendemo
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Two generations of RAP students mark up Clares
I Am
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