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Melissa Highton

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October 11, 2016

things can only get beta

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Picture taken of me at #ald16eduni . No rights reserved by me.

Back in the days of Web 2.0 we used to describe things as ‘perpetualy beta‘. For me this perfectly describes Wikipedia. It’ll never be finished: we must add to, and improve it, early and often. Users are co-developers and it’s developed under open source principles of collective intelligence.

Wikipedia/Wikimedia are Thing 10 in our ‘23 things for digital knowledge‘ programme and today is Ada Lovelace Day.

Yesterday I wrote a provocation piece for the Dangerous Women Project. Today a bunch of colleagues and students engaged in dangerous practice and we were featured on the telly.  I’m the one wearing the Creative Commons badge.

 

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