This has been a good past week. I have had solid momentum going and was able to produce a number of new entries. The problem? I only have a few days left in my internship and I'm getting into a good groove now. I guess that it is not too surprising since all workplaces, digital and otherwise, take some getting used to. What has helped a lot is my Zotero indexed collection. Now that it is pretty well filled in I can use the tags, or a general search, and come up with documents I'm familiar with for references. And I have pretyped wiki-formatted reference data ready to be simply copied and pasted where necessary. If you haven't used Zotero yet, I recommend it, especially if you write anything that needs to be referenced or need to juggle between a lot of sources.
The amount of sources I have been able to find relating to the Mongolian Knowledge Society has been surprising. When I was working on my report for Mongolia last semester at one point I got a little frustrated on how little information I was able to find. Eventually did find a number of good sources, but with this internship I have probably quadrupled that number. This is not to say that they are all great sources, or that some of the NGO project descriptions I've found are dabbling heavily in hyperbole. But I have been able to find many authoritative resources secreted here and there around the web. In fact, often in the past few weeks my problem has been an overabundance of sources leading to twenty or more open browser tabs at a time (not so efficient). It remains true though, that even if this information is out there, it is still hard to come by in a accessible and coherent fashion. Hopefully I have made it a little easier with my wiki entries. A few of them even come up near the top in a Google search!
Newest entries:
Bank of Mongolia
Mobile phones
Mongolian government
-Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (MOECS)
-Mongolian heads of state under communism
-President of Mongolia
Mongolian Telecommunication Company (MTC)
NewCom Group
-Mobicom
Non-formal distance education
Skytel
User:Gossett (I finally got around to filling out my profile)
Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
The government entries are not all related to the Knowledge Society per se, but they snuck in there because I started looking into the ministries involved in education and ended up wanting to give those groups context with some other information on the government. It all still needs a lot of filling out, especially since I get diverted to telecom companies because I wanted to give some background for the mobile phones entry (which led to Wireless Local Loop as well). I even somehow got distracted into editing a Wikipedia entry for one of the Korean joint stakeholders in Skytel (I was bothered by blatantly promotional language). Alas, it's all in the nature of web 2.0 isn't it.
Though my internship is coming to a close I intend to continue to contribute to Monreference for a few reasons. First, I still have more entries on the Knowledge Society waiting to be written (the media being a glaring example of this). Second, I'm invested in the project now. It would be hard to just abandon it at this point. Third, I would like to learn more about Mongolia and this just gives me another reason to continue to do so. And fourth, wikis need active, flesh and bones humans working with them in order to live. I'd like to see this one live. I'll be doing less with it since school will be taking more of my time, but I'll do what I can.
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