There’s a new dimension in town. The physical spaces we inhabit are being transformed by cellspace technologies (also referred to as mobile media, wireless media, or location-based media), where data is constantly being delivered to and extracted from mobile physical space dwellers; for us, the result is an overlay of dynamic augmented data made possible by the always-growing and ever-more-connected…
When I figured out I wanted to write about Cineville I found out that as expected, writing a Wikipedia entry was much harder than I hoped for. What annoyed me the most was the enormous amount of information available. It constantly gave me the feeling my contribution wasn't sufficient and would be removed by either a bot or a real life editor. When nothing happened after the first day I was still sure I did it wrong, but now time passes I'm getting a bit more confident that I managed to get to the solution of the Wikipedia labyrinth.
When I wrote my article in Wikipedia about Suzhou Creek Art District in Shanghai, I really hadn’t expected to encounter Dr. Blofeld coming out of hiding from his Himalayan retreat to edit my category listing! Au contraire, I had expected perhaps a bot or two … but Dr. Blofeld and his odd-eyed furry feline, well that’s original!
Wikipedia is such a huge encyclopedia, every topic I came up with, it already existed on Wikipedia. I saw there wasn’t a topic yet about the soccer club FC Abcoude so when I wanted to start that, this message appeared:
(Source: Wikipedia.nl)
What should I do, write about it nevertheless? I decided to do that…
The English Wikipedia remains more than 3,4 million articles, the Dutch Wikipedia on the other hand less than one million, so I thought it should not be difficult to find an interesting subject for a new entry on this free encyclopedia. During the brainstorms, thinking of new-media related and other different kind of subjects, I found out it was…
My wikipedia entry is about an italian cartoon called “L’Omino Bufo”, in loving memory of those bizarre and hilarious strips I used to read (and enjoy to the tears) as a child.
Since the available online information was very poor, I started to browse some comic lovers’ blogs and eventually managed to reach the author by telephone for a…
This week I posted a Wiki post on the Dutch Wikipedia website about the subject of my interest Digitized Cultural Heritage. Nothing fancy, just a small posting with some definitions and examples followed by a few links. After carefully following the guidelines to use by posting for the first time, I really liked posting my own article. It…
When thinking of a subject to write about on Wikipedia, a couple of considerations crossed my mind. It’s easy to write about a scientific subject in which you will know for sure that it’s going to remain on the website, but what about controversial subjects or the ones about sex and violence?
Looking at the policies and guidelines section…
Since Monday the 27th September I am a new Wikipedia author and I must admit that I like it. I can’t name reasons why I didn’t try it before but now I know that I don’t want to stop contributing to Wikipedia anymore. So you will very likely read more articles in the future which were written or changed by…
Can you only make a Wikipedia entry if your subject has been covered in the mainstream press a gazillion times? How do underground, guerilla, new subcultures or artists get exposure on Wiki? Short answer: they don’t. I referenced the Het Parool and the Dutch entry for this graffiti artist is hardly different to mine. Laser been published for Pete’s sake. His book is available in the American Book Centre and yet I can't keep a Wiki entry on him alive for longer than 5 minutes and 35 seconds.
The CoffeeCompany, a Dutch chain of coffee bars, is well known by every Amsterdam coffee drinker. And, because I live next to one, it’s my regular coffee dealer. A couple of days ago I found out they didn’t have a Wikipedia page so I decided, being a wikinoob, to write one. It was the first time I made a Wikipedia…
I posted on the Spanish version of Wikipedia an item on the World March of Women, an international feminist movement. I thought it was a nice way to participate in the 3rd international Action that is taking place this year on October 17th in Bukavu, DR Congo. From Monday to Thursday I spent each evening completing the information…
Is no news good news for Wikipedia? For this assignment it was easy to pick a topic, something I feel passionate about, Dance Chimes, invented and designed by Alfons van Leggelo. You can read my post on Wikipedia here.
Wikipedia is the biggest online encyclopedia in the world. In the English version one can find almost 3,5 million pages. With more than 640.000 pages, the Dutch version comes in the fifth place, next to Italy and Poland. So to find a subject where I could write something about, and one that did not already have a page,…
So while everyone was making an actual relevant addition to Wikipedia, I decided to try something silly. A while ago I was standing in line at a film festival when I heard two girls argue about whether they were wearing ‘jeggings’ or ‘treggings’. ” Um, does it matter?”, most people would undoubtedly say. But apparently for some people it matters.…
After being asked to write a Wikipedia article I soon realised that the challenge would not be related to the technical side of things, but rather to coming up with a topic. It was difficult to think of a topic that is not yet part of the over 3.4 million articles that make up the English version of Wikipedia.…
Presenting! an online webcam chat room with functions similar to that of Skype or any other audio-video-chat spaces, yet the difference here lays in the simplicity of Chatroulette. The creator; a seventeen year old Russian teenager named; Andrey Ternovskiy briefly explained in an interview with the NY Times that his ambitions were simply to establish another…
Times Square to Art Square is a project to turn all billboards on Times Square into art. At the opening party of Dutchproblogger’s book Sex, Blogs & Rock ‘n’ Roll [English/Dutch] I was fortunate to meet Justus Bruns, one of the guys behind the TS2AS project. When I heard it, I stood there silent for…
"Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and you decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Amsterdam Dance Event, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted."Welcome to Wikipedia and welcome to my adventure.
It had never crossed my mind to make a Wikipedia entry as I must admit that I never thought of Wikipedia as a reliable source of information and even more as a source that I would refer to in my academic writings. Of course I turn to Wikipedia for more trivial issues like chat abbreviations that I am not aware…