User:CMadeo (WMF)/Greenhouse

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A small greenhouse | Welcome! Please come in for a visit. Feel free to water the seedlings, propagate new plants or take a cutting of anything growing here.
Welcome! Please come in for a visit. Feel free to water the seedlings, propagate new plants or take a cutting of anything growing here.


This space is a part of a network greenhouses, fostering thoughts and explorations.

Seed packets[edit]

Creating a sense of 'depth' for Wikipedia[edit]
  • Wikipedia articles as sedimentation build-up -- how to show where information pools and collects / changes over time, increases
  • Sedimentary layers:
    • Article = grass
    • Citations and sources = granite
How can a digital space have a tactile quality?[edit]
  • Seeing other people's highlights on Kindle
  • Pages that shift, move, respond based on inputs
  • Interact deeply with each word (audio, translation, definition). An example: Iago
Wikipedia as collective memory[edit]
  • What would change if we thought of Wikipedia as a 'sacred text'?
  • Spacial proximity of Wikipedia articles
  • How to avoid 'sedentarizing' Wikipedia in attempt to make it 'legible' but to instead embrace the 'the rich functional structure and complex behavior of the very organic entities'?[1]
Personal ergonomics of Wikipedia[edit]
  • A website that helps you to feel 'embodied' while on Wikipedia -- perhaps an invitation to move / listen / speak while reading or editing
  • An interactive and personal map of my history with Wikipedia with a recipe for others to remix to do the same
  • How can Wikipedia articles be represented by time -- time invested in editing, time invested in reading
  • How can Wikipedia center on and reflect readers as individuals?
  • How to reflect a journey bridging from one article?
  • Horizontal scrolling
    • How might we use this as a metaphor for 'digging deeper' into a subject?
  • What organizational metaphors do people use for understanding and navigating Wikipedia?
  • How do systems foster a sense of safety? In what ways are contributors avoiding 'punishment' on our platforms?

Compost and other garden inputs[edit]

Seedlings[edit]

Personalization vs. Customization[edit]
  • How might Wikipedia reflect the time you spend with it back to you so that you are equipped to better understand what you need and how you feel?
  • What might a 'Wikipedian' persona look like?
  • What might a reader's dashboard for Wikipedia look like?

Gardening notes from shared plot with PPelberg[edit]

  • How might we help visitors to experience Wikipedia as the place we know it to be?
  • How might we help people remember the time that they spend on Wikipedia?
  • How might we make Wikipedia more like a public park?
  • How might help visitors to see and feel progress / time passing on Wikipedia?
  • How might we help visitors see and feel Wikipedia's evolution, the movement within it?

Reference list[edit]