[Air-L] AoIR Wiki Was: A suggestion for reading lists and syllabi

[Annette Markham]

nicely done, Alex!  I hope to challenge your edit-matching contributions!

Speaking of wikis, AOIR has another wiki devoted exclusively to ethics
issues.  So we should definitely do some cross referencing, especially
regarding syllabi and course reading suggestions, which is an area we do
not (yet?) have on the ethics wiki.

If anyone wants to add to or edit the aoir ethics wiki, they can sign up
for an editor account.

Or, if you just want to wander over there and admire the efforts of our
ethics committee, please feel free to visit: http://ethics.aoir.org/

Annette


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Associate Professor, Department of Aesthetics & Communication, Aarhus
University
Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden
Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago
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On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Alexander Halavais <halavais at gmail.com>wrote:

> Not as dated as you may think.
>
> Some context and history, for what its worth. I believe strongly that
> a wiki would be a useful thing. So do many others. For several years I
> carefully extracted the bibliographic discussions from AIR-L and put
> them on the wiki. If you look back you will find my periodic "put it
> on the wiki" messages. I was the only one editing the wiki.
>
> Well, that's not entirely true. When the wiki was open to the public,
> I and every spammer on the planet were the only editors. Wiki
> gardening takes a lot of time, particularly on the despamming side.
> For some time Jeremy also was kind enough to track on this. With the
> previous membership system, I linked accounts so that signed in
> members could edit. Eventually, someone still spammed it (MediaWiki is
> a nice target and unless carefully maintained gets easily exploited).
> But it was a bit moot, because there seemed little interest--it
> basically got near zero hits. Moreover, we now have transitioned to a
> maintained membership system (Wild Apricot) that makes such shared
> authentication near impossible.
>
> For the last few years, there have been calls to resuscitate the wiki.
> I'm very happy for this to happen (and I would actually suggest we do
> it through a pbworks or Wikia site, for a number of reasons that I
> would be happy to elucidate if anyone cares), but not alone. Three
> people have volunteered to act as maintainers in that time, but none
> have followed through. I cast no stones--it's something that I have
> myself have failed to prioritize, in large part because of the lack of
> contributors and visitors. Spread around, it's not as much work, but
> someone has to keep it up--and read it--or it's not worth the time.
>
> To move this out of the realm of the virtual and into the actual or
> something (paging Prof. Lévy?), I went ahead and started up a Wikia
> page: http://aoir.wikia.com/wiki/AoIR_Wiki
>
> I will further do an effort-matching pledge. For each of the next 50
> edits to the site, I will match with my own contribution.
>
> - Alex
>
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> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Oh, good to know! And boy does this wiki need an update. I'm surprised we
> > don't have regular "add it to the wiki" messages when people ask to
> compile
> > reading lists and syllabi!
> >
> > How do we go about getting accounts for the wiki? My guess is the
> > "transitioning the membership system" message is pretty outdated...
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