The first thing we are doing is collecting personal stories of the discoveries you have had with us. Write something nice, or even not so nice. If there is something someone else has done that helped you understand, share that too.
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Of many discoveries, these three stand out the most: 1) Ward shows consistent caring for writers and content creators via his efforts to create a platform that balances sharing and autonomy. 2) Ward shows great openness, humility, and kindness by inviting people to participate with a wide range of skills and interests. 3) Ward showed me patience as a pairing partner as I tried to help with limited time and my C++ mind struggling with use new web tools. I feel forever thankful for the opportunity Ward showed me. — Michael Kelley Harris
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Mike Caulfield's fabulous keynote displays the wiki magic, through a historical myth-story, in a way I haven't seen it elsewhere. post 
The weave of blog and video snippets is masterful, the blog doesn't speak without the video, the video isn't properly impactful without the text-blog? It would be worth reflecting again on the three-way relationship of blog (or wiki), video-narrative and the unfolding 'pod' practice that can be unfolded in wiki? — Mike Hales
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To write in the wiki is to intentionally seek to define and share meaning through increasingly more complex patterns of meaning. The emergent essence can be felt in the simplest of structure. — Thompson Morrison
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Our collaboration in the Graphviz Plugin feels particularly indicative of wiki's potential and an ongoing inspiration for me. I've pulled a few more notes together.
Wiki invites authors to accumulate meaningful pages. When the authors are also programmers, wiki's code also invites extension of wiki with plugins.
With my work on the Frame plugin and Observable and Glitch, I aspire toward literate programming in wiki inspired again from the Smalltalk experience.
The technical lessons in our collaboration are fun enough on their own. But what really knocks my socks off is how the tool has enabled such wonderful collaboration well outside of the geeky technical bits. — Eric Dobbs
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1 Awareness engine - Twenty years back I was fascinated by Sandor, Bogdan & Bowers exploring an Awareness engline for CSCW researchgate
Here is an awareness engine, versioned in wiki:
- Forked versions of a page (flags in the page header)
- Recent changes (in the neighborhood)
- Rosters (nominate your neighborhood)
Fabulous! From awareness - comes wisdom? A necessary starting place anyways. Coupled with paying attention (yoniso manasikara) while travelling the landscape, and a smidge of 'Law of fluency'.
2 GraphViz - Being able to see the present page within its 360degree context is vital - locating a pattern within a pattern language, a niche within an ecosystem. Current work in Graphviz is enabling this and so much more - more than I can comprehend or mobilise right now! But such power 🙃
3 Scraping and analytics - I love the way Ward, in particular, has a feel for scraping stuff from some structured or random feed, and massaging the data into a form in which they can be put into explicit relationship with themselves, and other domesticated piles of event. In a wiki page. With live updating. So elegant! It's essential that 'we' should have the capability for this, in a time when data-analytic capability is near monopolised by 'them' - the corps, states, data oligarchs, psyops people. We need these mirrors and wilderness-mapping aids urgently. Way to go. — Mike Hales