User:CMadeo (WMF)/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.

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

Seed packets

Creating a sense of 'depth' for Wikipedia

• 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?

• 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

• 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'?

Personal ergonomics of Wikipedia

• 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

• Grapefruit
• Oblique strategies
• Manifesto for maintenance art
• Ergonomics
• Hypercard
• Middens

Seedlings

Personalization vs. Customization

• 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

• 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?