{"id":1362,"date":"2016-10-11T20:25:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T20:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2017-04-14T16:50:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:50:48","slug":"beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2016\/10\/11\/beta\/","title":{"rendered":"things can only get beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1363\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/CufMkYTWcAEvhlv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1363 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/CufMkYTWcAEvhlv-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cufmkytwcaevhlv\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/CufMkYTWcAEvhlv-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/CufMkYTWcAEvhlv-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/CufMkYTWcAEvhlv-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/CufMkYTWcAEvhlv.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture taken of me at #ald16eduni . No rights reserved by me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back in the days of Web 2.0 we used to describe things as &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perpetual_beta\">perpetualy beta<\/a>&#8216;. For me this perfectly describes Wikipedia. It&#8217;ll never be finished: we must add to, and improve it, early and often. Users are co-developers and it&#8217;s developed under open source principles of collective intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia\/Wikimedia are Thing 10 in our \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.23things.ed.ac.uk\/category\/23-things\/\">23 things for digital knowledge<\/a>\u2018 programme and today is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh\/Events_and_Workshops\/Ada_Lovelace_Day_2016\">Ada Lovelace Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I wrote a provocation piece for the <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerouswomenproject.org\/2016\/10\/10\/wikipedias-women-problem\/\">Dangerous Women Project.<\/a> Today a bunch of colleagues and students engaged in dangerous practice and we were <a href=\"http:\/\/player.stv.tv\/video\/3jnm\/live-five\/ada-lovelace-day\/\">featured on the telly<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m the one wearing the Creative Commons badge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the days of Web 2.0 we used to describe things as &#8216;perpetualy beta&#8216;. For me this perfectly describes Wikipedia. It&#8217;ll never be finished: we must add to, and improve it, early and often. Users are co-developers and it&#8217;s developed under open source principles of collective intelligence. 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