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-[[Image:HelmutLeitnerPhotographsMarkDilley.jpg|180px]]     [[User talk:MarkDilley|Leave me a message]]
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-Hello, I am new to [[MediaWiki]] and so am introducing a bit more [[WikiWay]] to it.  I enjoy this space! :-)
-I began my wiki fascination in January 2002, thanks to Kirk Kitchen and his [[YpsilantiEyeball]] wiki for the chance to learn about wiki. I also was mostly with the [[MeatballWiki]] community, which I still consider one of my main wiki homes.  I also am part of the [[CommunityWiki]] crew.
-Recently I attended [[WikiSym]] where I met [[Raymond King]] and [[John Stanton]]. We all grooved on the idea I began several years ago [[SwitchWiki]].  The original description is at the now defunct [http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:itRCu7b-ghMJ:sknkwrks.dyndns.org:1957/writewiki/wiki.pl%3FOneBigWiki+meatballwiki+onebigwiki&hl=enover YpsilantiEyeball] and at [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?OneBigWiki MeatBall:OneBigWiki], and the first iteration of it, a flat 26 alphabetical list, resides at [http://www.worldwidewiki.net/wiki/SwitchWiki WorldWideWiki:SwitchWiki].
-I am extremly excited about this project for I see it as a stepping stone to continued [[SelfOrganization]] of information.
-The idea of a wiki of wikis is recursive to me.  Thus I am thinking and working on [[RecursiveNatureOfWiki]] as examples of the ideas I am trying to groke.  Another fascination of mine are community interactions on wiki.  There were a group of us at [[WikiSym]] who were interested in this, [[WikiPractices]] is what we called it, and the page resides at [[MeatballWiki]].
-Even though I have used wiki for over 4 years, there is much I need to learn and hope to always have the capacity to learn.
-So I have this idea for a [[Community Page]] that would be something like [[WhatILearnedOnWikiToday]] which is just stories on a wiki page, like a weblog, reverse dated, pile the next one on top.  I think it would be a way to share what we learn about, with and from wiki.
-I asked my housemate to type in switchwiki into the address bar.  WorldWideWiki:SwitchWiki hit first.  He then made from the world wide wiki site to the WikiIndex.  He sat back and was amazed at the front page, so many choices, I sat back and went, hmmm, does the front page look to complex?  wouldn't it be nice to just have a search button in the center like google.  but at this site, you can edit your search page if you want..? Interesting idea I had, but the real issue is we just need to think how we want to be presented to people. Anyway, I asked him to pick a site, he chose one that had '''Hard Wiki'' on it and he went there. After stumbling around a bit he clicked on the photo, remarked postively after visiting the [[CreativeCommons]] site.  Then asked how to get to the wiki, I said it was easy.  He then found it and went to [[HardWiki]] and I thought the FrontPage was nice.  News on the right, community edited news. ([[RecentChanges.Info]] maybe here on the wiki, similar to what [[CommunityWiki]] is doing.
-He found a news article that linked to google video, and then he started to surf it. Like I enjoy surfing wiki.
-Enjoy! :-)
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