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After looking over the history tab on the facebook Wikipedia page, it is clear that there are 100's of even 1000's of editors going back over the last few years. The first post comes at 04:42, 23 October 2004 and it seems that facebook is updated as often as once a day, and at least a few times a week. I really enjoy this feature of Wikipedia, and believe that it has value that goes beyond what the "current" state of the site is. Who knows what a quarter century of this metadata could reveal about the way people work collaboratively online, or share ideas... or the way ideas/knowledge evolve and is transferred, how we learn to share those ideas in "more organized" ways. It would be neat if Wikipedia joined some type of Visual with their History tab....something that allowed you to see how the look and structure of a specific page has changed over the years...or what key concepts/word have been used and which ones have been removed or downplayed. There is so much potential research questions to be asked and learned from a site like Wikipedia, and only time will tell how much we are able to learn from this type of massive online collaborative network/project.
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You bring up a good point about the value of these old edits, as compared to the value of the site as it stands now. I hadn't really thought of it that way, making use of what -used- to be there instead of what I see right now. The example you posted, though, was of edits by the same person three times. Did you see a lot of work done by others on the specific article you visited too?
ReplyDeleteCool idea of looking at the past. That's actually a feature that I wanted to see as well. It reminds me of the Wayback Machine that allows users to see websites as they evolved, but wikipedia is probably too big to index. I do have the same question as enduro. How often did Laguna72 post? Also, take note that all three posts were done at nearly the same time, which means that user edited a bunch of things at the same time. Maybe you should have touched on that more.
ReplyDeleteI would think that the Facebook page would have many conflicting posts about privacy and other conflicting posts at the beginning of its history when many of its features, uses, and where is would 'go from here' were unclear. It would be cool to see who has edited the most on a specific topic or page.
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