On 5 June 2014 19:33, Michael Snow <wikipe...@frontier.com> wrote: > On 6/5/2014 11:11 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@frontier.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Pete's were again primarily social and community-based, but at this level >>> of discussion we should be looking at both social features and technical >>> ones. >>> >> YES YES YES! > > I also don't believe that social and technical aspects can always be > neatly separated.
The common separation between UX and community/social concerns inspired me to choose "Social Machines <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Social_Machines>" as a theme for Wikimania this year, a term invented by Nigel Shadbolt, Tim Berners-Lee et al and defined thus: "Once upon a time 'machines' were programmed by programmers and used by users. The success of the Web has changed this relationship: we now see configurations of people interacting with content and with each other, blurring the line between computations performed by machine logic and algorithms, and those that result from input by humans, arising from their own psychological processes and life experience. Rather than drawing a line through such Web-based systems to separate the human and digital parts (as computer science has traditionally done), we can now draw a line around them and treat each such compound as a 'social machine', a machine in which the two aspects are seamlessly interwoven." The thing I especially like about the "machine" metaphor is the implication that they are things that can be fixed :) *Edward Saperia* Chief Coordinator Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org/> email <e...@wikimanialondon.org> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
