wiki as en ecological system
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Wiki as an ecological system and WikiVote! technology
Vasiliy Burov Co-founder WikiVote!
Associate Professor Moscow Higher School of Economics
Evgeny PatarakinCo-founder WikiVote!
Senior ResearcherPublic Opinion Foundation
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Global Brain for the Scientific Mind
• «As we may think» together with Memex – new way of reading
• “WikiWay” of writing and editing• MetaTransitional Theory and Principia
Cybernetica Web
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Wiki philosophy
• Wiki is a mostly simple Editing Hypertext System• Wiki is a symbol of Participating Culture• Wiki as a Social Network with
object-centered sociality
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Media for collection and creation of objects
• Wikipedia• Educational wikis http://letopisi.ru • WikiVersity http://en.wikiversity.org/ • WikiBooks http://www.wikibooks.org/ • WikiMaps http://wikimapia.org/ • Collaborative media editing communities
(Stroom, Scratch)
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Wiki as an ecological system
Wiki is virtual ecosystem:• Community of Agents• Environment of pages• Network of linked objects
and agents
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Unit that includes all of the organisms interacting with the physical environment so that a flow of energy leads to clearly defined trophic structure, biotic diversity, and material cycles within the system is an ecosystem.
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Environment for Research
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There is no needing to go to a forest. We have a lot of data for analysis here. And no needing for interview and questions
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Research: Analysis of numerical data
• All quantitative data from the sites are open
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Research: Analysis of connections
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• The study of relationships and connections between authors and pages
• The relationship between authors and pages can be represented tools of the medium itself
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Simulation for research and education
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Selection of ideas and improving of texts
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WikiVote! approach
• Interested and knowledgeable participants are invited through educators’, parents’ and professional networks.
• Participants are motivated by the groundswell effect and are encouraged to compete and be recognized by peers.
• The wiki site is pre-populated with draft items.
• Participants, vote, comment, discuss and suggest their own versions.
• Graduate items are merged into the final draft of the law.
The Crowdexpert Clowd
Document
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WikiVote! on the Crowdsourcing Map
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WikiVote! and Democracy 2.0
• Development of social services has led to emergence of such phenomena as the wisdom of crowds, crowdsourcing, Wikinomics, groundswell and participatory culture.
• Technological capabilities of the Internet provide the basis for the transition from the contemporary society of representative democracy to the Internet society of direct democracy, Democracy 2.0
• All politically active and educated citizens have Internet access today. Therefore, all of them can directly, without mediation from parliaments, contribute to the lawmaking.
• This creates the basis for the new practices of public expertise and law enhancement, which may be referred to as Lawmaking 2.0 based oh the WikiVote! technology
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How Lawmaking 2.0 Project is Implemented
A platform for discussion is created and the draft law is published.
A representative number of participants from different interested groups is invited.
The infrastructure for suggesting, commenting, discussing, editing and voting is offered.
Participants are motivated by career and recognition goals.
A new version of the document based on the suggestions is created.
The experts are rated based on their contribution. The “elite” of public experts is formed.
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Lawmaking 2.0: A New Tool for Solving Governance Tasks
• The expert participants are not just any crowd. They are knowledgeable people, motivated in their professional area.
• Search and selection of such participants are fulfilled in professional communities among those who showed activity in the field.
• This approach provides wide representation and gives broader outlook and complex approach to the issue.
• Participation in a online expert community is a stimulus for qualified professionals who can later work in government and administration.
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Social-political Aspect – Wiki solution for wicked problem
• Effective conversion of the civic activists’ energy in a constructive collaboration with the government starting with a narrow field.
• Reducing the field of a social or political crisis by improving the social environment consideration.
• Search for the new solutions not noticed by the official experts.
• Expanding the expert network with skillful and knowledgeable experts.
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