December 14, 2006
Wikinovela
A Tale of Multiple Tongues
Wikinovela — A Tale of Multiple Tongues :: From the 3rd Congress of the Cybersociety comes: Wikinovela.
If the wiki is a definitive collaborative technology, what happens when a group tries to write a multilingual novel using the form?
[What follows is a commentary on the project involving a bit of translating and paraphrasing of the conference essay “Wikinovela: a project of hypertextual, collaborative, and multilingual creation on the Internet” by Patricia Fernandez Carrelo and Santiago Perez Isasi.]
Produced by the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain) under a Creative Commons license, Wikinovela began April 24, 2006 and eneded July 24, 2006. Over the course of the three-months, the collaborators produced a work that stretches across languages: Castilian, euskara (Basque), and English. That is not to say that the work has been translated, but that distinct parts of Wikinovela appear in each language.
Participants could modify the text of others, continue any of the on-going storylines, create new plots (or “hypertextual ramifications” of a plot), or add metanarrative commentaries. More >> [blogged by Mark Marino on WRT]
Posted by jo at December 14, 2006 05:24 PM
