Yesterday, I attended a discussion at the office of Wikimedia Germany on Wikipedia’s notability guidelines. There has been a heated debate going on in Germany for a few weeks now, provoked by a series of controversial deletions. So yesterday’s meeting was thought to be an opportunity to articulate criticism and exchange ideas.
There was a lot [...]
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Wikipedia: How do you reform a horizontal organization?
Austrian students are taking social media-trained organization to the ground
In Vienna, students have seized control of the university’s lecture hall to protest neoliberal reforms of the education system. What makes this student revolt so remarkable is that its participants use techniques they have learned on the web.
The protests erupted rather spontaneously after professors and students at the much smaller Academy of Fine Arts ended [...]
Coworking Spaces: The Hub Berlin
This weekend I attended Socialcamp ‘09 in Berlin. The barcamp took place at a venue that is in itself very interesting: “The Hub” is a coworking facility and part of a network of similar locations around the world. As they describe themselves,
“The Hub Berlin is a co-creative community of people with good ideas for the [...]
