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NodeWiki

A node-wiki is the place to report and discuss developments and improvements, ideas and visions for a certain kind of wiki.

A first draft:

There are several city-wikis now. All of them deal with local stuff - stuff about the respective city.

I started on a Berlin-wiki. Unfortunately I didn't get any further than knitting the city wikis I could find together - that means introducing them to each other - using the wiki-node. Nice, they know of each other now, they probably looked at each others pages, some even said hello. Nice. But that's not too much yet.

The other day I read about a brandnew Maastricht-wiki. I made a wiki-node on it, I connected it. Six wiki-node pages to add it on, seven city-wikis now. Next time there will be seven wiki-nodes to be changed.
The Berlin-wiki isn't but a skeleton 'til now, there is no "city contents" on it yet. It's difficult to begin. Berlin has a particular dialect, there are numerous local expressions that originate in the time when Napoleons troops were in town and though Berliners mostly understand them they do not know about their origin. As these expressions are dying out a "Dialect"-section would make sense on the Berlin-wiki. Probably on all city wikis? A cockney-subsection on the London wiki?
To produce this idea to the other city-wikis I have to write on seven pages.
It would be more effective I think to write it on a page of the city-wiki:node-wiki and then to tell seven wikis to take a look there and here and now and to write down good ideas about their city-wiki on their homepage on the city-wiki:node-wiki so other city-wikis will find, read and copy them. I mean there will be hundreds and thousands of city-wikis. Big buckets first.

Node-wikis are imagineable for

Discussion

at work, so I can't say much-

few links:

Sorry haven't been writing much in general; I'm very busy with my.localnames and projects in general. But I'm definitely reading.

"SuperConnection?" probably has been/will be used in many different ways; the term is too generic.

Maybe DontDirectlyConnectEverybodyToEverybodyElse?? but that's long.

I guess I prefer using the formal language here; AvoidCliqueTopology?. We're talking about something inherently mathematical here, so maybe it's okay to use the technical language.

I love these things that are just there out of a sudden and you can use them. Thnaks for odd-wiki. Making a new wiki is as easy as making a new page. Great!

Isn't it too vulnarable to have wiki hubs? If somebody forgets about his server, than all the information is lost. The basic internet idea was that there would be no central points…
Another thing… whats's the use? We made up our own wiki, i don't see the point of having tips of berlin wiki-people, because, well berlin is a total different city, with total different things. and who to give tips to? There is no central coordiantion, is there? DaniĆ«l, WikiMaas?

I have a few thoughts on this:

  • I think coordination of wiki-noding should happen on the WikiNodesWiki, not on NodeWiki. That way, we have all the noders together, and we have an overview of what noding activity is going on.
  • I think city wiki should connect mainly to physical or political neighbors. Portland links Seattle links Vancouver. But Vancouver doesn't link Portland. It doesn't link Mexico City. It doesn't link some city in Uganda.
  • I think city wiki's wiki nodes should perhaps link to a city-wiki page on the WikiNodesWiki, that explains what's going on.
  • I like the term, "DontConnectEverybodyToEverybodyElse?." It's long, but it communicates better than the alternatives. :)
  • There is no central authority: What goes on a wiki is under the authority of the people living on that wiki. However, that doesn't prohibit friendly central coordination, in the absense of anyone else taking care of things.

I'm just starting to understand the meta layer. Up to now, it was a complete riddle for me, although I had put a description on MeatballWiki:WikiNodeIdea. The meta layer of a group of wikis (for example wikis at schools), reflecting on their application is not necessarily bound to the way they connect. "node-wiki for city-wikis" is terrible, no-one will understand it. Language is important. One must find something better to communicate the idea. At that point of abstraction, it's not about nodes, it's about applications and sharing useful experiences.

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