http://learningalliances.net/2009/03/unfinished-is-good-news/ supporting communities of practice, their leaders and their sponsors Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:16:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://learningalliances.net/2009/03/unfinished-is-good-news/comment-page-1/#comment-3103 smithjd8 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:40:39 +0000 http://learningalliances.net/?p=412#comment-3103 Laura, I'm fascinated by what you're doing but I haven't participated enough in fan subculture to understand what's really going on. Could you point to an example where a bot has collected something and then a human has edited it. I looked around your site and just didn't recognize that behavior -- or is that what you're expecting users of your wiki to do? Laura, I'm fascinated by what you're doing but I haven't participated enough in fan subculture to understand what's really going on. Could you point to an example where a bot has collected something and then a human has edited it. I looked around your site and just didn't recognize that behavior — or is that what you're expecting users of your wiki to do?

]]> http://learningalliances.net/2009/03/unfinished-is-good-news/comment-page-1/#comment-3102 Laura Hale Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:21:33 +0000 http://learningalliances.net/?p=412#comment-3102 Fan History actually does some article creation by scraping similar to that of AboutUs and foodista. Our examples: <a href="http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/User:LiveJournal_Bot" target="_blank">http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/User:LiveJournal_B...</a> and <a href="http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/User:FanFictionNetBot" target="_blank">http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/User:FanFictionNet...</a> . They just don't continually create which might be a bit different. Fan History actually does some article creation by scraping similar to that of AboutUs and foodista. Our examples: http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/User:LiveJournal_B... and http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/User:FanFictionNet... . They just don't continually create which might be a bit different.

]]> http://learningalliances.net/2009/03/unfinished-is-good-news/comment-page-1/#comment-3100 smithjd8 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:58:43 +0000 http://learningalliances.net/?p=412#comment-3100 Actually, Ward Cunningham's words, as I captured them on twitter at the time, were: "A community thinks that 'not done' is better than 'done'. A group of experts has the opposite view." Actually, Ward Cunningham's words, as I captured them on twitter at the time, were: "A community thinks that 'not done' is better than 'done'. A group of experts has the opposite view."

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