Class3notes

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Learning-to-edit-the-Wiki assignment for Class 4

Steps you should try to accomplish on your own before class:

1. Log-in to the class wiki
2. Go to Tech Help and read MediaWiki Editing Overview
3. Go to Wiki test page (Wikipedia "Sandbox")
   • Edit something ("summarize" your changes; "preview" before saving)
     • Use some text formatting--for example, italics, bold
   • Create a section on a page
   • Create a list on a page
   • Create a link (note that the format of a link in MediaWiki is different depending on whether you are linking to a page inside the same wiki or an "external link" elsewhere on the Web)
4. Read Starting a New Page; then go to the Wiki test page and see if you can figure out how to create a new page

Would you be interested in a supplementary, hands-on workshop from a TA (Kim Knight)? Possible times: this Thursday or next Thursday: 12pm - 4pm (location: the English Department "Transcriptions" computing studio, South Hall 2509)

Also for Class 4

Think about which of the Wiki teams you might want to be on. If you want, you can bring a laptop for Class 4.

Continuing our discussion on authorship from last time . . .

1. Romantic authorship (e.g., William Wordsworth):
   • Solitary
   • Appropriative ("theft")
   • But also collaborative ("gift / reception")
2. The Legal and Economic Framework of Authorship:
   • Martha Woodmansee, "On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity" (pp. 279-80)
   • Michel Foucault, excerpt from "What is an Author?" (¶ 2)
   • Standard contemporary publishing contract (handout)
3. What happens to authorship in the age of the Internet?
   • Woodmansee (pp. 289-90)
   • James Boyle, "Fencing Off Ideas: Enclosure and the Disappearance of the Public Domain" (p. 242)