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A small token of my love for wiki
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* Thank you Ward for starting a platform that changed my life. Wikis promise that together, we can make it better -- and together, we have. My participation with wikis has been as an editor of Wikimedia projects, local wikis, and internal wikis; an educator/author; and a conference organizer for Recent Changes Camp, WikiSym, Wikimania, and many other Wikimedia events. I've put my energy into organizing events over the years because it's the in-person manifestation of what makes wikis so interesting to me - people coming together to create something wonderful in the same space. -- [[User:Phoebe|Phoebe]] ([[User talk:Phoebe|talk]]) 15:35, 19 February 2025 (UTC) | * Thank you Ward for starting a platform that changed my life. Wikis promise that together, we can make it better -- and together, we have. My participation with wikis has been as an editor of Wikimedia projects, local wikis, and internal wikis; an educator/author; and a conference organizer for Recent Changes Camp, WikiSym, Wikimania, and many other Wikimedia events. I've put my energy into organizing events over the years because it's the in-person manifestation of what makes wikis so interesting to me - people coming together to create something wonderful in the same space. -- [[User:Phoebe|Phoebe]] ([[User talk:Phoebe|talk]]) 15:35, 19 February 2025 (UTC) | ||
[[File:Rccchart.jpg|thumb|ideas from Recent Changes Camp 2008, photo by Jay Walsh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rccchart.jpg]]] | [[File:Rccchart.jpg|thumb|ideas from Recent Changes Camp 2008, photo by Jay Walsh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rccchart.jpg]]] | ||
* After a few days intensively focused on reading & writing in the new-to-me WikiWikiWebs in 1998(?), I knew my experience of the web had changed forever when I saw an error on some other website *and was confused when I couldn't find the edit button*. I had internalized that the web is editable! Wiki became part of my ongoing life, as with Open Space. What makes a wiki a wiki is an amazing conversation to get to be a part of, especially as it becomes clear that there is no agreed-upon list of core features. For some, collaboration among people is central, while for others a personal wiki is still a wiki. Are structured wikis still wikis? It depends? "What is a wiki?" quickly (over a period of years) became one of those questions that will never have a definitive answer. I believe that the web, and the world, will be endlessly grateful it was Ward and other early wiki folks who put hypertext on the map of the early web, a space of many ecosystems that wiki continues to inhabit and grow into. --[[User:John Abbe|John Abbe]] ([[User talk:John Abbe|talk]]) 19:02, 19 February 2025 (UTC) | |||