Comments on: LazyCreation

By: Mina

Mina — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:11:51 +0000

We'd be happy to be interviewed by email. The whole of h2g2 is a huge collaborative project, so if you want to get in touch we'll happily answer. :-)

Mina

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:37:56 +0000

Thank you everyone for the response - a few were on my list, a few are brand new to me, so that's fabulous! I think I could have worded my LazyWeb invocation a little better - does anyone want to be interviewed via email about their personal experiences of creating collaboratively?

By: steven hatch

steven hatch — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:46:49 +0000

For collaborative art projects do check out SITO.org (http://www.sito.org)

By: Richard Soderberg

Richard Soderberg — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:18:22 +0000

Everything2 (.com) is 100% collaborative, and does not exist without user-provided content, period.

Kuro5hin (.org) is a user-driven website; content is generated and approved entirely by the user base.

Nupedia (.com) is kind of like Wikipedia; a public peer-reviewed general encyclopedia created by volunteer scholars, apparently.

There's an entire DMOZ category on the subject of Open Content, at http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/OpenSource/OpenContent/ . I suspect you'd appreciate the Encylopedias and Idea Banks subcategories, a LOT.

By: Mina

Mina — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:21:37 +0000

I think you'll find that h2g2 (a BBC Community website) demostrates this suberbly. I've given the link of the Collaborative topics that are used on the site. We link to an entry (what we call our articles) from our Front Page and ask our members to contribute to the topic of the week. The staff then write the information up into a conherent article, and publish it on the Front Page again, crediting all the people who have submitted content. We've had as many as 50 contributers to certain articles.

If you look at the link that I've provided, you'll see a number of entries in various stages. We've been doing this virtually every week for nearly three years, and I think that you'll find this meets your criteria. This couldn't be done to this standard, this regularly, anywhere other than the internet.

By: Richard Soderberg

Richard Soderberg — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:33:57 +0000

Fray (.com), LazyWeb (.org), and Wikipedia are all community-driven.

The Fray depends on user submissions for 90% of the content; while the story is interesting, I read it to see how other people relate. Every story ends in a question that most everyone can answer.

The LazyWeb depends on user submission of ideas. It doesn't matter what kind of idea it is, how useful or trendy it is, it just matters that someone cared to share their idea. Every idea has an answer out there, somewhere.

The Wikipedia depends on users for content management. It's an open CMS, one that anyone on the Internet can use to improve that contained within. Every answer is collaborative.

By: Antoine Neron

Antoine Neron — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:26:22 +0000

Here's a project you might be interested in:

The Open Blog Project at http://www.openblogs.org