Creative Commons, LRMI, and UntrikiWiki embark on HTML Tags

We’ve recently embarked on an exciting new project in conjunction with Creative Commons to create an implementation of LRMI (a metadata standard for Open Education Resources) and schema.org in MediaWiki, so that MediaWiki communities all over the world are able to take advantage of the benefits offered by robust metadata.  We’re calling our extension HTML Tags, and are hoping to have a production-ready version of it ready in the...

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Explanation of past UntrikiWiki activity

UntrikiWiki has recently received some public attention from Wikipedians who disagree strongly with our belief that COI consultants can serve in a mutually beneficial liaison that is good for both Wikipedia and organizations that contract us.  We’d like to explain in more detail what it is that Untriki has been doing, and what our future plans are to try to ameliorate some of the confusion around us. We’ve never made a single edit for which...

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Actualizing “Actualizing Infotopia”: The SXSWening.

We’ve made our application to SXSW to present what we think Infotopia could look like. If you wanted to understand our SXSW proposal in an image it you could use the one below: If you wanted the same understanding as video, you could watch the one below: And finally, if you wanted to vote for us, and secure this presentation’s actualization you can click on the image below. (You’ll have to make a SXSW account...

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