Finally making my #Introduction. I'm Nate TeBlunthuis. I'm graduate student in communicaiton studying cooperative communities (especially online, like Wikipedia). I'm not hear for research, but to hang out with other people who care about the future of cooperative organization. I'm also into free/libre software and social movements. My website is https://teblunthuis.cc
I saw Janelle Monea last night and she was great!
What's new from Zuck: ""including about encryption and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people’s hands. Those values will always be at the heart of WhatsApp.”
-- https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/30/jan-koum-quits-facebook/
Thanks to my collaborators @mako and Aaron Shaw
My new paper w/ @groceryheist and Aaron Shaw shows that big wikis tend to grow and decline in a way that looks eerily similar to English Wikipedia. https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/revisiting-the-rise-and-decline
@groceryheist will present the work on Thursday at #CHI2018.
Excited to share this new blog post on my research: https://blog.communitydata.cc/revisiting-the-rise-and-decline/
The pool of active contributors to Wikipedia started declining in 2007. Researchers blamed a calcifying bureaucracy and hostility to newcomers. Are these problems in other wiki communities too? Could there be a deeper reason why these dynamics emerge?
I replicated Halfaker et al 2013's analysis of 'The rise and decline.' The dynamics observed in Wikipedia appear to reoccur again and again in many wiki communities.
Loic Tallon, Chief Digital Officer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the largest art museum in the United States), about the success of #OpenAccess & collaboration with #Wikimedia:
"At The Met, more people (ten million a month) are now experiencing The Met collection on Wikipedia than on metmuseum.org (two million a month). Furthermore, they’re doing so in languages and contexts that are near impossible for The Met to replicate and support on its own website."
So there's a post about the Switter/Cloudflare thing on HN, with 41 points and only 1h old, but it's missing from the frontpage 🤔 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16876040
@groceryheist welcome! Your research sound awesome!
#Opensource's big German win: 300,000 users shift to @nextclouders for file sharing https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-sources-big-german-win-300000-users-shift-to-nextcloud-for-file-sharing/ … @ZDNet #nextcloud
how embarrassing to spell 'here as 'hear' ... 😅
Finally making my #Introduction. I'm Nate TeBlunthuis. I'm graduate student in communicaiton studying cooperative communities (especially online, like Wikipedia). I'm not hear for research, but to hang out with other people who care about the future of cooperative organization. I'm also into free/libre software and social movements. My website is https://teblunthuis.cc
I love this place. Happy birthday, #socialcoop, and thanks to all y'all.
As bad as Facebook, Amazon, et. al., are, I reserve my deepest loathing for #Disney, which seems to be on a mission to enclose and commodify the entirety of humanity's #MythicCommons...