Der Beitrag zum Schreibwettbewerb. Nicht ganz fertig geworden, aber immerhin:
Miss Piggy ist eine fiktive Muppet. Sie spielt in allen Folgen der Muppet-Show und in allen Spin-Off-Filmen mit und hat ein veritables Eigenleben als angebliche Autorin und Moderatorin gewonnen. Dargestellt wird sie durch eine Handpuppe. Miss Piggy ist ein anthropomorphes Schwein und einer der Hauptcharaktere. Meist wird sie gleichzeitig als aggressiv-durchsetzungsstark und betont feminin-divahaft porträtiert.
Miss Piggys Entwicklung und der Charakter wurden maßgeblich geprägt vom Muppet-Gründer und Produzenten Jim Henson, dem Drehbuchschreiber Jerry Juhl und Miss Piggys Puppenspieler Frank Oz. Ursprünglich eine Nebenfigur im Muppet-Universum, wurde sie in der zweiten Staffel der Show ein Hauptcharakter, und zum Ende der Show hin die Muppet-Figur mit der größten öffentlichen Wahrnehmung. Eine entscheidende Änderung nahm der Charakter nach dem Tode Jim Hensons und der Übernahme der Henson-Rechte durch den Walt-Disney-Konzern. War Miss Piggy vorher ein durchsetzungsfähiges Starlet mit dem unstillbaren Drang zum großen Ruhm gewesen, schuf Disney nun auch Rollen für sie, in denen sie bereits erfolgreich und als Star etabliert war.
Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)
I love Wikipedians. All of them. I have to. It’s my job. But this is
not about me. This is about a long and exciting journey through the
dense forests of mistrust, up against high mountains of community pride,
along tightropes of being inside or outside, through the minefield of
community discussions. It features identity confusion, evaluation
desparation and volunteer dedication. It is a journey that is designed
to lead into the happy meadows of constructive, creative collaboration -
welcome to the-thing-that-cannot-be-called-community-management.
The Wikimedia movement has several programs worldwide and some
established procedures for volunteer support. The movement has spent
years on outreach. But little do we know about inreach - the art and
technique to support the existing community from within. Inreach means
to offer support, help communicating, trigger discussions, moderate
hotspots.
Drawing from the experiences of last years WMDE-supported community
project on paid editing and drawing from the experiences of some more
orthodox community liaision activities, this year we try something new:
being as a Wikimedian active in a Wikipedia - trying to moderate, help,
support the community to communicate with itself - inmidst the tensions
of the Wikimedia/Wikipedia relationship and inmidst all the tensions of
the community relations itself. Will it blend? How far will it go? How
far should it go? Where is the limit of community acceptance? Where is
the limit when community empowermemt becomes community dependence?
Last years experimental paid editing project was designed to
facilitate and attend to a community wide discussion on all aspects of
paid editing. It attempted to empower the community enough, so that it
could reach some common decisions and conclusions, to develop some
structures, on how to deal with this problem. In doing that the project
used a whole range of measures online and offline..This year we will
consider several lessons learned and try to deal with new projects, new
discussions and new topics. Long and enriching journeys are awaiting us.
Track
WikiCulture & Community
Length of session (if other than 30 minutes, specify how long)
30 minutes
Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
Meine erste Wikimania-Submission dieses Jahr: was so alles aus komischen Ideen am Rande von Gesprächen entstehen kann. Großer Dank an Frank, von dem bisher die meiste Arbeit kommt.
Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)
In the early days of Wikipedia, everybody knew: authors are the
backbone of our encyclopedia. Today, with a growing number of roles,
organizations, committees, and meta-discussions, authors tend to be
sidelined. They are simply taken as granted. Just take a look at the
monthly and annual reports or blogs of different Wikimedia organizations
and you will notice that the work of content producers is rarely being
featured. The many activities that are happening on the meta-level seem
to be more significant, more important to what some people call “the
movement”.
In our presentation, we will make the case that paying more respect
to the people who write Wikipedia is crucial for the survival of this
“endangered species”. We will show examples of how people from different
cultures and language communities work tirelessly on improving content
in their specific areas of expertise. And we will also showcase a select
number of mind-blowing articles that result from this effort.
Our presentation will not only pay respect to amazing individuals
from different countries but also encourage people to rethink their
attitude towards Wikipedia’s content-producers. We believe that if you
truly recognize the work of these volunteers, great things can happen.
But this is not the main reason for why we’d like to bring authors back
to the center of everybody’s attention. The main reason is that these
people simply deserve it. Because they’re awesome.
Track
WikiCulture & Community
Length of session (if other than 30 minutes, specify how long)
30 minutes
Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
Yes
Slides or further information (optional)
As part of our preparation for the conference, we will ask the global
community of Wikipedians to send us their suggestions for who should be
featured as part of this presentation. If someone comes to your mind
while reading our submission, please feel free to contact us via the
email addresses above.
Dieses Internet ist schon phänomenal.. was man da alles findet. Zum Sonntag: Jim Henson, bekannt durch Muppets, Sesamstraße und allerlei andere lustige Sachen, erklärt 1969 im amerikanischen Public Broadcasting, wie man Sockenpuppen bastelt. Enjoy!
