It's in development, launching this week. You're welcome to join us to help.
Yes, we need contributors of technical knowledge and content. Coders, designers, editors. Please contact me at guy _att_ wikineering _dot_ org, let me know how you can help. On Aug 13, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > -- > +Rexford | +CG Central | +233 266 811 165 l BFCT > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
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