Editing MeatballWiki (section)

== Relationship to wiki community ==

The original intent of MeatballWiki was to offer observations and opinions about wikis and their [[Online community|online communities]], with the intent of helping online communities, culture and hypermedia.{{cn|date=October 2023}} 

In ''[[Good Faith Collaboration]]'', [[Joseph M. Reagle Jr.]] describes MeatballWiki as "the wiki about wiki collaboration".<ref>{{cite book
	| last = Reagle Jr.
	| first = Joseph M.
    | author-link = Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
	| date = 2012
	| title = [[Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia]]
	| publisher = [[MIT Press]]
	| pages = 60
	| isbn = 9780262288705
}}</ref> Being a community about communities, MeatballWiki became the launching point for other wiki-based projects and a general resource for broader wiki concepts, reaching "cult status".<ref name="ebersbach" /> It describes the general tendencies observed on wikis and other online communities, for example the life cycles of wikis and people's behavior on them.<ref name="WikiIndex" />
<blockquote>What differentiates MeatballWiki from many online meta-communities is that participants spend much of their time talking about sociology rather than technology, and when they do talk about technology, they do so in a social context.<ref>{{cite conference |first1=K. T. L. |last1=Vaughan |first2=Jon |last2=Jablonski |first3=Cameron |last3=Marlow |first4=Sunir |last4=Shah |first5=Ross |last5=Mayfield |title=Beyond the Sandbox: Wikis and Blogs That Get Work Done |book-title=ASIST 2004 Annual Meeting; "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts" (ASIST AM 04) |date=2004 |url=http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/abstracts/114.html |access-date=2007-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012142728/http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/abstracts/114.html |archive-date=2007-10-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref></blockquote>

The MeatballWiki members created a "bus tour" through existing wikis.<ref>{{cite web|title=TourBusMap|url=http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/TourBusMap|website=meatballwiki|access-date=18 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sitepoint.com/print/what-is-a-wiki |title=What is a Wiki? |access-date=2007-12-28 |last=Matias |first=Nathan |date=3 November 2003 |work=SitePoint |publisher=[[SitePoint]]}}</ref>

[[Barnstar]]s – badges that wiki editors use to express appreciation for another editor's work – were invented on MeatballWiki and adopted by [[Wikipedia]] in 2003.<ref>{{Cite conference| publisher = ACM| doi = 10.1145/2818048.2819976| isbn = 9781450335928| pages = 729–743| last1 = Zhu| first1 = Haiyi| last2 = Kraut| first2 = Robert E.| last3 = Kittur| first3 = Aniket| title = A Contingency View of Transferring and Adapting Best Practices Within Online Communities| book-title = Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing| location = New York, NY, USA| series = CSCW '16| date = 2016| url = https://zenodo.org/record/894626}} {{closed access}} [http://haiyizhu.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/BestPracticeTransfer.pdf Author's copy]</ref>

Evgeny Morozov of ''[[Boston Review]]'' notes that another Wikipedia norm around voting may also have stemmed from MeatballWiki.<ref>{{cite news
  | last         = Morozov
  | first        = Evgeny
  | date         = November 5, 2009
  | title        = Edit This Page
  | url          = https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/edit-page-wikipedia-evgeny-morozov/
  | work         = [[Boston Review]]
  | access-date  = 2023-10-04
}}</ref>