Why the FCK ?
May 22nd, 2007 by alexanderhayes
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There is an end to the use of the FCK editor in sight……in fact it’s gone. No more. We wont be using it in our mediawiki.
It was a corruptable.
I’ve just been speaking with San Francisco based company called SocialText who are adamant that Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia is on their board of Directors and is looking to integrate the Social Text visual editor with that of the MediaWiki platform. Your guess is as good as mine as to the timing and whether it solves our issues.
The conversation came about by my test of the SocialText site - http://www.socialtext.net/alexanderhayes
Is it any different to Confluence and what are the advantages of mediaWiki over the other two solutions ? Is it something to do with the attribution process for user generated content ? Is about open vs. closed ?
As we struggle through the retraction of corruptable editor muckups in our NSW LearnScope wiki we reflect on a week of what matters most for NSW LearnScope teams - the ability to muck in and get started on spreading the good news and the good oil about what’s occuring here in Australia for those doing similar elsewhere in the world. The platform is almost irrelevant….the ability to get content connectable the most important factor.
The focus is on the ability to develop open learning resources to share and to collaborate THROUGH content and the real learning that comes about with imbedding concepts and platforms with an open web publishing ethic in mind. I think many people have just gone about their business without really giving any thought to it till content and sites have started to dissapear.
Complementing this issue of ours for the last 96 hours is the major debate on how to share content without losing the intellectual property values bestowed ……. individuals contribution and what becomes of collaborative content.
We are creating content that’s imbued with a Creative Commons 2.5 Share Alike - non Commercial derivative licence in our NSW LearnScope licence where we network teams and their links and articles related to events etc……..but are we using the right licence ? Whats our intent ? What would happen if a commercial interest of a team was being comprised by our licensing arrangement ?
One of the things that comes to my mind is the purpose behind LearnScope - inherent with issues related to how bring e-learners into the world of online learning and how not to lose those who are forging away at the edge, pushing boundaries and bringing rich media back to the troops.
Take for instance “our” own Leigh Blackall.
He’s pushing his way forward with contestable IP and imbedding innovation in his own organisation there in the land of the fluffy white sheep…………. as well as appearing from his desktop in an myriad of online speaker roles. Any guess at how many he’s scheduled to perform this year ?
Chase up some of the links below…..some amazing thing happening out there with the WebHeads group.
Web Heads In Action - WIAOC2007 - audio recordings
http://www.webheadsinaction.org/wiaoc2007/Presentations
Leigh Blackall - Keynote ( somewhat jumpy and broken up but happening…….. )
http://streamarchives.net/node/42
Leigh Blackall - WikiEducator Notes.
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall/Open_educational_resources_and_practices#Copyright
Also worth chasing;
Global reporting