Is a website for Wikineering up and running that one can peek at? Well, if I may ask, contributors of content and/or technical knowledge? i.e, coding, designers, etc
Thanks On Tuesday, August 13, 2013, Guy Ravine wrote: > Hey Everyone! > > I'm glad you all enjoyed the conference! > > We're launching a new collaboration called Wikineering, wiki engineering, > and need your help. > > While so far, the wiki has been used to collectively organize knowledge > repositories, Wikineering will put MediaWiki to use as a tool that allows > the world to collaboratively create and improve specifications for new > products and services. If the world could come together to wikineer > meaningful new products and services that do not exist, it would change > itself for the better. The vision is simple: Engineering built the 20th > Century. Wikineering will build the 21st Century. > > We are looking to launch Wikineering in the coming days based on MediaWiki > and need your help. If you're good at MediaWiki development or > customization, or at editing entries as a Wikipedian, please join us. There > is a short term and long term roadmap to make this a reality and we could > use your help. > > The first project that will be collaboratively wikineered is the > supersonic Hyperloop transportation system that was proposed yesterday by > Tesla founder Elon Musk. The Hyperloop received exposure to millions of > people yesterday and Musk invited everyone to contribute to the Hyperloop > design. However, only thing that is missing to enable everyone to > contribute to the design is a platform for collective engineering like > Wikineering. So -- join us and we will build it! > > To make wiki engineering practical requires new extensions and > customization of MediaWiki. If you join us to contribute to the development > of Wikineering we can together make it a reality and we will kick start a > new movement that could literally change the world by allowing it to change > itself. Wikineering is not a fly by night idea. A number of us -- > inventors, engineers and academics at MIT -- have been thinking about the > principles for successful collective engineering for a few years now. We > now believe we know what it takes to make wiki practical for the collective > engineering process and need your help to make it a reality! > > Everyone are welcome to contribute. Contact me at guy _att_ wikineering > _dot_ org to help. > > Guy > > The Wikineering Collaboration > San Francisco, California & Cambridge, Massachusetts > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > -- +Rexford <https://plus.google.com/107174506890941499078> | +CG Central<https://plus.google.com/b/103109918657638322478/103109918657638322478/posts> | +233 266 811 165 l BFCT<http://www.blendernetwork.org/member/nkansah-rexford-nyarko/>
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