Comments on: Community management wiki

By: Zbigniew Lukasiak

Zbigniew Lukasiak — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:13:19 +0000

Beside Meatball there is also CommunityWiki which kind of budded off Meatball.

By: pfctdayelise

pfctdayelise — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:56:42 +0000

OK I’m glad you started that wiki. I managed to unbundle a heap of links and stuff I had buried away in various places. I’m sure more will come to light as I think of it too. :)

By: pfctdayelise

pfctdayelise — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:48:49 +0000

I just had come up in my feed reader, a post about the upcoming Online Community Unconference East happening in Feb. They seemingly had one last year too, but it is more business focused than I suspect you're looking for. I am also aware of Commania started by Richard Millington (whose blog on community management, I really like), but it's a forum/Ning not a wiki... a wiki is definitely a missing part of the puzzle. A lot of older Wikipedia policies or essays have their roots in stuff from Meatballwiki/C2.

By: Avdi Grimm

Avdi Grimm — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:34:43 +0000

I see someone beat me to it, but back in the day before the term “wiki” came to be synonymous with WikiMedia the place to discuss online community-building was MeatballWiki: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl. I don’t know how active it has been recently though.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:27:43 +0000

You might be interested in emint, a community for community managers (http://www.e-mint.org.uk/) I’ve learned an awful lot from them over the years. Highly recommended.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:10:45 +0000

Let’s try this then …

By: Skud

Skud — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:24:05 +0000

The site uses MonsterID to randomly generate an avatar for people who don’t have a Gravatar. The randomosity is based on your email address, I think. If you want to choose your own avatar, you can do it at http://gravatar.com/, and that avatar will then follow you to lots of other blogs that also use the same system.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:11:40 +0000

BTW what’s up with my avatar?!?

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:10:41 +0000

Yes, I think it was an early fork of C2.

I know – it does seem to be somewhat closed and cliqueish (clubby?). Maybe they’re focussed on helping their members grow communities rather than growing themselves as a community … ?

By: Skud

Skud — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:00:04 +0000

Luke: that does look pretty good! And weirdly, I’ve heard of it before and I think maybe I visited it back in 2001-2002 for some reason or other, possibly connected to the C2 wiki. Looks to be still fairly active; I’ll have to go spend some time digging around and reading what they’ve got there.

I do wonder whether/how they expect anyone to find it. I can’t make it show up in google for any related term without using the words “meatball” or “usemod” in my search. Looking around, it definitely has the feel of “the wiki is the community/the community is the wiki” (similar to C2). Talking to a colleague yesterday about another community, he said something about how there’s nothing stopping you from joining, but you kind of get the feeling you’re at a party where you don’t know anyone, and they’ve all got backstory together. Know what I mean?