__One World__ our umbrella term for Wikipedia's 20th Birthday
The first edit on Wikipedia was the first time anyone in the world could participate in a single common activity. It was the first time the world spoke with one voice.
Wikipedia is the best way we have found that people around the world can collaborate to create shared knowledge. It achieves this result through social traditions and rules, mediated by technology.
The end result is what we might call consensual writing, which has the advantage of being able to synthesise many voices into a single concise and coherent proposition. This Synthetic View has the disadvantage of giving little space for new or alternative perspectives which fail to reach such consensus.
# Theme
Picture holding up a globe or football: > One World, in your hands > One Voice, it's yours that counts
# Collective The theme is essentially about the pressing need for better collective decision making and action. We examine wiki as the best know example of planetary scale collective action, and we ask how we can use this to address the problems that we face.
We move between the one, and the many. This is like moving between Federated Wiki, and Wikipedia, or the divergent and the convergent.
We can explore themes about the individual and the things we can do to act, and the collective - the ways we can come together to address collective problems.
We consider the following rhyme: - One World - One People