Barrapunto

Barrapunto is a Spanish-language Slashdot-like website, founded on 7 June 1999, which is part of a complex social network among Spanish-language websites. [ [http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=470 Social Network of barrapunto] , "visualcomplexity". Accessed July 27, 2008.] In 2006, it was the winner of a 20Blogs Award from the online newspaper "20 minutos", in the category "Mejor comunidad de un blog" (best blog community). [ [http://www.20minutos.es/premios_20_blogs/ Premios 20Blogs] . Accessed July 27, 2008.] The site and its community have also been the subject of both English- and Spanish-language academic research.

The name is derived in the same manner as Slashdot, with the Spanish "http://" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra" and "http://barrapunto.com" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra-barra-punto-punto-com". Barrapunto runs Slash, the open source software used by Slashdot, and materials are published under CC-BY.

Barrapunto was founded by six professionals and teachers in 1999 as a meeting point for the free software community. By 2005 more than half a million comments had been posted and almost 40,000 stories.cite web| url = http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2005/0605/1106/noticias/noticias_110605-04.htm | title = Barrapunto celebra su sexto aniversario | accessdate = 2008-07-27 | publisher = "Noticiasdot.com"]

Notes and references

External links

* [http://barrapunto.com Barrapunto]
* [http://enstb.org/~gsimon/Resources/barrapunto.pdf Barrapunto vs. Slashdot: Challenging the Scalability of Self-Moderated Communities] - a presentation by computer scientists Samuel Navarro and Gwendal Simon comparing the use of moderation on Barrapunto and Slashdot
* [http://www.maestrosdelweb.com/actualidad/2865/ ¿Y si Barrapunto y Meneame unieran fuerzas?]