Wiki presentation
De Estigmergia
In September 2007 I had the opportunity to give a presentation at the University of York, during the Towards a Social Science of web 2.0 conference, about some of the findings and reflexions related to my research interest in Wikipedia and wikis. Although I'm not very happy about how did I talk (or about my loudly spoken English, I rather say :) I think I found a quite interesting way for doing presentations using a wiki.
What I did was to prepare the slides in MS PowerPoint as usual (with a grey status bar, more useful in my opinion than page numbers), and then inspired by the MediaWiki Slideshow extension I decided to do it in a wiki way that could allow the content to be incremented/modified as well as commented. The final trick was to show it all in a printable version (with a default wiki skin, not the current one), so after a lot of tedious hiperlinking I had a clean presentation I can edit and edit and reuse and add references until it becomes The Presentation :)
You can take a look at it here: Stigmergy, meritocracy and vandalism in peer-production: how can wikis grow
Although the title (and the abstract, and the presentation itself!) is a little bit ambitious, it's about the basic features and advantages of wikis, and the way Wikipedia evolved in terms of process, community and similarities with Open Source developments.
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