Wiki Art?
posted by Daniel Solove
A new website called Swarm Sketch allows people to create a sketch in wiki fashion:
SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what the collective thought was important each week. . . .
Each user can contribute a small amount of line per visit, then they are given the opportunity to vote on the opacity of lines submitted by other users. By voting, users moderate the input of other users, judging the quality of each line. The darkness of each line is the average of all its previous votes.
The sketch included in this post is entitled “Cell Phone Bandit.” You can browse the other artwork here, including a rather vulgar picture of Jessica Simpson’s wedding. Let’s just say that wiki is no Picasso.
Hat tip: Google Blogoscoped
Related Posts:
1. Solove, Curtailing Anonymity on Wikipedia
2. Solove, Fake Biographies on Wikipedia
5. Hoffman, Wex
December 10, 2005 at 12:07 am
Posted in: Technology, Wiki
Print This Post
Responses (1)
anon - December 10, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Its an amazing site, almost as cool as Wiki-Government or Democracy 2.0 . . .
http://wiki-law.org/mwiki/index.php?title=Democracy_2.0:_Main_Page
Leave a Reply