week4 - after reading

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The combination of knowledge claims (epic) and open perspectives on other contributors (mutual) returns to a universal vision that creates special collaborative possibilities and increases access to information and social consensus. Let me explain exactly what "culture of collaboration" means, I also note that there is often a disconnect between written policy and actual practice within the organisation. In providing some history of how wiki came about, I argue that wiki helps bridge the gap between policy and practice.

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These concepts, and their literature, are useful, but alone, insufficient. For example, the concept of "dispute resolution" is surprisingly optimistic. For this reason, recent textbooks prefer conflict "management" to "resolution," and recognize that agreements and disagreements play an important and inevitable role in the community, respectively. In this way, Wikipedia is like the free and open source software (FOSS) community characterized by Steven Webber. An open-source software process is not everything confusing that everyone has equal power and influence.

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"Complementation is the process of shared creation: two or more individuals with complementary skills interact to create a shared understanding that no one previously owned or could have gained on their own. Collaboration creates shared meaning for processes, products, or events." Therefore, my use of the term "community culture" refers to a set of assumptions, values, meanings and actions related to working together in a community. For this reason, I have used the term common culture in common sense, but if I have to explain in more detail what a common culture or culture means, I can find various and many answers. In this project, I refer to culture as the "way of life of the people," a valuable system of "making meaning" in which four communities understand and act on communities, including maintenance and reproduction of themselves.