Talk:Collaboration

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Cleanup Taskforce page → Edit | Purge [edit] Collaboration The article on Collaboration is too lengthy and contains excessive bullet-point listing. It needs organisational cleanup and a change from the horrid bullet-point lists. :-) Bennyboyz3000 06:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC) Added to User:Thiel.steve/Desk RJFJR 20:48, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Collaboration 2 "Nuances" section 3 Musical collaboration 4 Companies like.. 5 Link Issues 6 Collaboration in Graduate Work 7 moved from article 8 Questions 9 updated definition section and added a section that explains difference between management and collaboration 10 Collaborative Art? 11 crap

I find it sad that this article seems to totally ignore the vast literature on collaboration, making it sound like guesswork of people. How about the "Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Collaboration" article publish in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 27, No. 2, 139-162 (1991)? Or the many articles that specifically mention forms of collaboration (as interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, etc)? This article seems to be missing some validity. --Michalisa 06:04, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

I saw fit to remove the following:

== Collaboration with Soviet Union ==

As the result of Nazi-Soviet pact several countries of Central Europe

were occupied by Soviet Union:

• collaboration of Polish communists
• collaboration of Finish communists
• collaboration of Lithuanian communists
• collaboration of Latvian communists
• collaboration of Estonian communists
• collaboration of Jewish communists(all above countries)

This may seem a bit harsh, but, unless this is something I'm not getting, to above list would appear to be (sorry) perfectly pointless, and tinged with misappropriateness. Possibly someone had it in mind to expand it and forgot about it. ―Itai 19:25, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "Nuances" section

Hi! I've added to the main article on Collaboration, with a citation in "References", a "Nuances" subsection under "Etymology" as shown below. The historical use of the word in these two contexts gives it more than a pure neutral meaning of working together.

"Collaborate" implies "to work together on a project". When individuals work together as in an academic setting, "collaborate" includes the nuance "to be jointly accredited" for the work completed. When individuals and organizations work together, or organizations with other organizations, nuances include "usually willingly" and "with another organization with which one is not normally connected".

Glad to discuss! -- Sitearm | Talk 16:18, 2005 August 13 (UTC)

[edit] Musical collaboration

This section needs to expand and we more articles about this --Nerd42 15:38, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Companies like..

I removed this section on May 27, 2006:

• companies like Philips and Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek (DAF) in the Netherlands continued their business with the Germans as usual, though the Phillips company for one tried to be as unproductive as they could get away with!

First, the end statement is clearly someone's personal opinion, and without citation or reference it is absolutely suspect. Second, many companies are responsible for differing amounts of 'collaboration' with the Nazi regime, and I think only citing three is an incomplete or haphazard gesture -- what about Monsanto, Coca-Cola (Fanta) or many others. Someone should build out this section as completely as possible.

-bcaddell

[edit] Link Issues

The following link does not work, at least for me. So, I moved it from the article page to this one. If you can fix it, please do. Keesiewonder 15:05, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

• Free Cooperation - Conference and resource about the art of online collaboration.

I spent several minutes trying to find this article at the IT Manager's Journal, and could not. Please advise. Keesiewonder 15:21, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

• Ten Steps Toward More Effective Collaboration - article in IT Managers Journal.

[edit] Collaboration in Graduate Work

An observation I have and that I've heard is that the ability to collaborate on projects, in person or in an online setting, is an expected skill for students as they begin their master's degree. However, little instruction is provided on how this collaboration is supposed to be accomplished for those who may not be accustomed to working this way. Somewhere, perhaps in one of the Wiki environments, it would be nice to find list of guidelines or resources for those of us who would like to become successful collaborators. Keesiewonder 18:10, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] moved from article

I move the 'questions' section here becasue it does not seem to be part of the standard wikipedia format for an article.

[edit] Questions

More research into the nature of collaboration is needed to answer such questions as:

• How does collaboration differ from cooperation? (dictionary definitions are generally more or less equivalent)
• What qualifies as a collaboration? (is Wikipedia a collaboration in the same way that a work of art is when two artists collaborate face-to-face? and for that matter, does a family, city, nation or species qualify? Is the vivid representation of collaborative activity on the internet inducing changes in the very definition of art and authorship? Just as the printing press, photography and the telegraph once inspired the Futurists, Cubists and Surrealists, we are beginning to see the emergence of new kinds of collective creative practice such as Wigglism, Submodernism, etc.)
• What are the defining principles or elements of this process? (understanding these might help to draw conclusions on the previous questions)

Currently there exists no unifying general theory of collaboration.

[edit] updated definition section and added a section that explains difference between management and collaboration

I agree there exists no unifying definition of collaboration. I think I have one....which I have added. I would also like to delete all the communication and co-ordination stuff as I think it distracts from what collaboration is.

[edit] Collaborative Art?

I have recently started an art project http://www.onesimplepixel.com - it is a collaborative art project. Furthermore, I now believe I will spend the next 10 years of my life pursuing collaborative art. To my surprise, there really isn't much on the subject or the history of it.

Given that music is listed here, shouldn't art? I would be more than happy to help find resources - given I am currently studying these concepts.

I'll make sure to watch this page.

Onesimplehuman 02:07, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] crap

This article begins thus:

Collaboration is the process wherein units work together to achieve outcomes for shared stakeholders, quicker and more cost effectively than if they worked on their own, without having to change the "how" codes of any of the participating Units.

This is supposed to be English Wikipedia, written in English. Why all these buzzwords? Collaboration is not a concept understood ONLY by whichever freak communities are versed in buzzwords like this.

Are there really some people who take this kind of writing seriously? Is it beyond medical science to treat their condition? Michael Hardy 19:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)