Difference between revisions of "Beyond Social Publishing"
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|Summary=Beyond Social is an ongoing international and collaborative research and publishing platform on social art and design. It connects professionals and students from different fields of expertise. It is a platform for trial and error, for sharing knowledge, projects, visions and opinions in order to find out what is needed to feed social practices and take them to the next stage. | |Summary=Beyond Social is an ongoing international and collaborative research and publishing platform on social art and design. It connects professionals and students from different fields of expertise. It is a platform for trial and error, for sharing knowledge, projects, visions and opinions in order to find out what is needed to feed social practices and take them to the next stage. | ||
| − | Building on the possibilities of Mediawiki software Beyond Social explores ways to create a discourse on Social art and design and connect publishing to education. | + | <br>Building on the possibilities of Mediawiki software Beyond Social explores ways to create a discourse on Social art and design and connect publishing to education. |
|Article== Wiki Publishing = | |Article== Wiki Publishing = | ||
Beyond Social is developed in collaboration with the [https://www.wdka.nl/research/hybrid-publishing Hybrid Publishing] research group of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. The project is an ongoing experiment in collaborative publishing using Mediawiki software. | Beyond Social is developed in collaboration with the [https://www.wdka.nl/research/hybrid-publishing Hybrid Publishing] research group of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. The project is an ongoing experiment in collaborative publishing using Mediawiki software. | ||
Revision as of 14:28, 23 October 2017
Building on the possibilities of Mediawiki software Beyond Social explores ways to create a discourse on Social art and design and connect publishing to education.
Wiki Publishing
Beyond Social is developed in collaboration with the Hybrid Publishing research group of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. The project is an ongoing experiment in collaborative publishing using Mediawiki software.
Main publishing features
- this wiki software (called MediaWiki) is free software
- everyone can be both a reader and a writer. In that sense, a wiki stimulates collective publishing.
- single authorship is not promoted (which means that an article doesn't have a single author, and the name of an author is not prominently displayed next to an article)
- every article saves its editing history (and you can look back in time to compare versions)
- the wiki stimulates internal linking as a way to create connections between articles
- links to non-existing pages can be made, which can be interpreted as an invite to someone else to write the page
- every page has a Talk page where users can discuss the content of the article
other useful features
- wiki software comes with many features that offer various entrances into the content (recent changes, categories, random page)
- this wiki comes with a set of Special Pages, for which special pieces of software is written to display various wiki activities, such as an overview of all pages, the least revised article, the most active user, the latest uploaded files, the most used Categories, etc. See: Special:SpecialPages
- there are several user groups in the wiki: there are Administrators, Editors, and (all), which is the default user group where every user is part of. Every user group has specific rights.
- Everyone can make a User page, and leave some information about him/herself.
Timeline
Beyond Social's wiki2web (2014 - 2016)
Beyond Social Issues
From 2014-2016 Beyond social was structured around the creation of Issues, which are best understood as editorial web magazines that reflect on a specific topic in the social practices discourse. Both students, teachers and external practitioners contributed to these issues. The following issues have been published:
Beyond Social Issue #1 - Redesigning Business (February 2015), archived here.
Beyond Social Issue #2 - Education (July 2016), archived here.
Beyond Social Issue #3 - Radical Reframing (December 2016), archived here
The wiki as backend
In between 2014 & 2016, Beyond Social already used this wiki as part of their publishing workflow, where it had a backend function for a wiki2web workflow. The wiki was a workarea, where articles and images were collected and brought together to generate the online Beyond Social Issues. Andre worked together with design studio Template to create an external Beyond Social front-end, that functioned as the webzine of the project. More about the wiki2web workflow is described by André Castro in this article Making Beyond Social.
The code of the wiki2web workflow is hosted on the Publication Station Github page here.
Beyond Social as a wiki platform (Nov 2016 - Feb. 2017)
Wiki metamorfose
Between November 2016 and February 2017 the wiki went through a visual and structural metamorfose. The main structural changes that have been made:
- The overall style and layout of the wiki changed.
- The frontpage turned into an overview of various user activities that are main features of the mediawiki software.
- There is a "suggestions" area added to the frontpage where certain topics, articles, or projects can be highlighted. This section was intented to be curated by a special to-be-decided moderator-team.
- Editorials were introduced: a personal selection of wiki articles that is accompanied by a short introduction text. These curated set of articles link different elements of the wiki together.
- A few plugins were installed to lower the treshold of editing on a wiki: Page Forms and Category Tree.
The code of this Beyond Social wiki skin is hosted on the Publication Station Github page.
Beyond Social as a wiki continued (May 2017 - Okt. 2017)
Links
CONTRIBUTE
Feel free to contribute to Beyond Social.