More More More Telling Field Guide to the Federation

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Field Guide to the Federation — We show you what we find interesting in the federation and suggest how you can make yourself at home here. (92)

You're New Here — There are four steps to making a home here once you have your own site. In other systems this would be like filling out your profile page. D (194)

Featured Sites — You can browse to any of these sites without leaving your own. Always start at your own site so that anything you find that you want to keep (100)

Watch Everything — We scrape the visible federation every six hours and report here sites with activity. Times are gmt. (37)

Welcome Your Community — We're happy to have you join our community and watch us work. If you have work to do then you should host your community and let us know how (126)

Keep Safe — We hope you will be collecting the best pages we have to offer and making some of your own to share. We especially want these pages to be so (692)

Welcome Visitors — Welcome to this Federated Wiki site. From this page you can find who we are and what we do. New sites provide this information and then (84)

Featured Projects — We make lists of things we intend to do or have done. Our colleagues may amend or prioritize these lists. A site's welcome page often lists (252)

Featured Talks — I speak often about federated wiki and have prepared new notes from my writing here for each presentation. (392)

Featured Journals — We've always favored personal reflection as a sincere style of writing that encourages others. Writing a journal will get you started here q (121)

Featured Documentation — We write a lot about how things work here creating new sites for each subject area or nature of interest. (224)

This Month's Changes — We've configured this version of Recent Changes to only see a month of activity. (34)

Writing with Strangers — Writing in the presence of rampant forking calls into question what it means to write and how to do it well. (721)

Chorus of Voices — Four distinct concerns surface when designing federated wiki based information communities. We identify each and suggest forces that must be (413)

Deploying a wiki — There are lots of ways to deploy Federated Wiki. Here we are just talking about the easiest way to install the Node version to it's own, oth (568)

Digital Ocean — Their mission is to simplify cloud computing so developers and businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world. [htt (23)

Tips for Administrators — Here we collect advice for operating wiki sites for others. Computers and networks vary so we stop short of step by step instructions. We re (208)

Ward Cunningham — I've coached a lot of people as they start with federated wiki. I find two hours of screen sharing with some intervening independent study w (61)

Field Guide to the Federation — We show you what we find interesting in the federation and suggest how you can make yourself at home here. (92)

Best Cities — Here we list some well known cities, create pages for them with a template, and then rate them on many dimensions clicking stars. Results ar (88)

Dreams and ToDos — We've kicked around ideas that still linger waiting for insight or energy to drive them to completion. Here they are within the lists that f (86)

Start Playing Wiki — Wiki is a hypertext. When you click a link you will go to that page. Here we have arranged the pages like rooms in an adventure game. There (160)

Experimental Interview — Don asks if I would like to write, or at least be interviewed, about information liberation as it relates to wiki. I suggest we experience m (242)

Places I've Lived — I've lived my whole life in Indiana and Oregon. When maps became available online I sought to use them to document all of my homes. (162)

Currently Working On — Here is a list of Recent Changes I consider important. View our experiments on the Scratch page. To clear stuff saved in your browse (223)

Federated Wiki at One — In one year we've converted vague notions of a new wiki into a working software platform with sufficient plugins to meet a demanding open-da (686)

Chorus Media — A Media for a Chorus of Voices. A presentation to CHIFOO on March 2, 2016. About reinventing Wiki and how it helped distribute the internet’ (259)

OOP 2016 Keynote — Over a quarter of a century, OOP provides the platform for both technical and business professionals to update their knowledge and share the (165)

Write the Docs — Just as the first wiki changed how people write, our new wiki will change how people work. By pushing steadily on two fundamental ideas we h (129)

Spray Dots — We explore painting things that move with dots that follow. We use placement and motion in the plane to represent abstract concepts rather t (295)

Federated Wiki Workshop — The workshop will guide you in installing, using and sharing in a progression of 25 minute sprints called, for obscure reasons, pomodoros. (338)

Splash 2014 — We collect here principles and beliefs that have informed the prolonged design of federated wiki. This material contains the basis of and su (187)

Song of Code and Content — Agile programming and Wiki hypertext emerged together out of a single vision of completing each other's work. Twenty years later we see oppo (796)

OSCON 2014 H/W Showcase — We show how federating wiki enables a new paradigm for instrument control, data collection, interpretation and open publication. Txtzyme pro (535)

Another Wiki? OMG Why? — I prepared this abstract for the 2014 TeX User Group (TUG) conference in Portland. Here I annotate it with materials that I will draw on pre (294)

Hacking Social Impact — I explain my influence over large problems. Translate that into something the audience can use. Preview how I'm making big problem solving e (76)

OSCON 2012 Demo Video — We recreate the calculation refactoring example from the open source conference and invite viewers to try it themselves. (89)

2016 Journal — We write here about what we've been reading and the ideas that spawn from that. (1275)

The Good Parts — We'll look for wiki's good parts and save them here. No plans to organize other than a custom Recent Changes. (22)

Ham Radio Operations — We've been operating ham radio station K9OX once again after maybe a decade of inactivity. [http://ft8.ward.asia.wiki.org/assets/pages/ham-r (423)

Pandemic Wandering — I leave the house about once a week to bicycle around the neighborhoods. I look for little trails I might have missed when I had more import (115)

Names of Things — We throw around a lot of terms when we talk about federated wiki that come from a variety of sources. Here we look at the sources and mentio (77)

Tips for Administrators — Here we collect advice for operating wiki sites for others. Computers and networks vary so we stop short of step by step instructions. We re (208)

About Plugins — We explain federated wiki plugins. We define their role interpreting content, recount our experience writing many, describe principles and s (323)

Hacking Federated Wiki — Federated wiki is designed to be a growing, moving, sprawling thing that can outlive any advice that I might give here. But start somewhere (141)

Federated Wiki Videos — These pages chronicle the Smallest Federated Wiki project and report its latest achievements with a series of short screencasts. (287)

How To Wiki — Here we describe how to use the web interface to the federated wiki. Read About Federated Wiki to learn about the project. If you are ju (264)

Conduit Metaphor — In linguistics, the conduit metaphor is a dominant class of figurative expressions used when discussing communication itself. It operates wh (235)

Kuhn Cycle — Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions described the social cycle through which science advances, one stage of which is the parad (248)

Advanced Work — Elso Kilpi questions the cultural metaphors that guide our actions at work and in society as belonging to an outmoded industrial era. Creati (320)

Names of Things — We throw around a lot of terms when we talk about federated wiki that come from a variety of sources. Here we look at the sources and mentio (77)

Backup — You will want to make backups of the sites you own or host for others. Don't confuse the journal with a backup strategy. The journal tells o (194)

Networking — We describe how wiki hooks up to the network because it does so through mechanisms not so frequently used by end users browsing the web. (124)

Hosting — A computer with a modern operating system and networking software can host the wiki server. This combination of resources can be found in ma (149)

Data — We describe what data wiki stores, how it is kept, what you can change, and what happens when you do. (42)

Social — People create pages and move them through the federation. We control who writes on sites and servers we own. We observe who reads and forks (83)

Institutions — Organizations share some responsibility for what goes on within the computers and networks they provide for their students and employees. Wi (380)