The wiki model spreading q’wiki’ly
I followed a link from Mark Pesce today (@mpesce) to an article about a collaborative animation project where material elements for the film were contributed from all corners of the globe, in addition to the wisdom of crowds prevailing through the voting on elements to go into the final creation.
Now most film directors would be clutching their hearts in horror at the thought of the majority ruling on the decisions that they alone should make as the auteur. However, in these times of user generated content and the social enterprise of Wikipedia and other major online initiatives, why not take a punt and see what happens?
We decided to take that punt with the development of our islands in Second Life when winners of the inaugural Linden Prize, Studio Wikitecture, showed interest in taking us on as their next project.
For us, the wikitecture model represented an ideal way to have the thoughts and ideas of our many show producers and audience members threaded directly into the evolution of the Treet TV islands.
Their Wiki Tree system, grows the design process through the form of a virtual tree. Branches have leaves, and each leaf represents new ideas as they evolve. A voting system decides what design elements are favoured above others.
Tomorrow we host the first meeting that will bring our community of virtual television producers together with the Studio Wikitecture team.
Although there are sure to be challenges along the way, ignoring the opportunities this kind of organic, iterative and inclusive form of creation presents just seems old-fashioned.
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