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More Telling About Federated Wiki — Story of 6 pages with 2789 words and 25 more links. (2789)

More Telling Field Guide to the Federation — Story of 6 pages with 1241 words and 13 more links. (1241)

Formatting Strengths — Wiki offers various markups for formatting text, each with a corresponding plugin that performs the transformation, and each with its own sp (310)

List of Plugins — This server has many plugins installed. Some are experiments old or new. A few provide basic mechanisms. The rest have some purpose explaine (49)

JSON Schema — We define the schema for federated wiki pages to the depth that we know it. We use a BNF-like notation to suggest JSON elements. Any ambigui (690)

Curl this Site — This site is made up of about thirty pages containing around 8000 words. We can fetch the whole site in export format, a hash of pages, and (203)

Collaborative Link — The web became more collaborative with wiki's introduction of the Internal Link. Link names were drawn from a shared space backed up at (656)

Familiar Workflows — Many simple things that could be a button in a centralized system turn into a series of steps in federated wiki. We'll catalog them here as (55)

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)

Wiki as Pattern Language — We describe the origin of wiki technology, which has become widely influential, and its relationship to the development of pattern languages (60)

Hacking Wiki's Methods — The Method plugin has already grown complex interacting across pages and between other plugins. Here I consider how I approached a large inc (629)

Patterns Together — We join sites by listing them together and then looking for 'twins' listed at the top of pages shared in common. (127)

Hip Portland — Where might one stay in a residential rental to enjoy the coffee shops and street life of the gentrified Portland neighborhoods. (183)

Recent Activity — This Roster collects active sites from the visible federation. Newly observed sites appear on a second line. (46)

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)

Social Chromatography — We expect some pages to be more mobile in the federation than others. With statistically significant flows between neighborhoods we will hav (161)

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)

Collaborative Link — The web became more collaborative with wiki's introduction of the Internal Link. Link names were drawn from a shared space backed up at (656)

About MathJax Plugin — The MathJax plugin renders LaTeX mathematical notation imbedded within an otherwise normal paragraph. (126)

Abstraction of Method — We reflect on the various ways this wiki separates method from quantity such that what will be done can be considered independently from the (664)

Import Documents — Federated wiki is just one more document format that hopes to play well with others and bring something new to the party. (403)

Coding Tips — Even simple things require a few steps in the Federated Wiki code. Here I remind myself how to get things done. (123)

Curl a Page — We share pages by fetching them in json format over the open internet. Here we will look into a few pages to get a better idea of how they a (290)

Internal Link — Wiki distinguished between two link forms, internal and external. Internal links received special handling as words with unique meaning to a (77)

TEDx Portland — Ward is best known as the inventor of wiki technology. Now, as the Nike Open Data Fellow, he has set out to change the world by doing for nu (54)

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)

Natural Genetic Infrastructure — Chris Alexander closes his 1996 OOPSLA keynote with an unexpected call to action: apply programming's power to the generation of a living wo (388)

Decentralized Web Summit — The current Web is not private or censorship-free. It lacks a memory, a way to preserve our culture’s digital record through time. The Decen (155)

Broadcast Workflow — We explain how to create a broadcast channel to address a community from a position of authority. Our protocol includes acknowledgement of r (201)

Rename Workflow — When you find a better name for a page, write about why that is a better name, make the page, then drag the important stuff from the old to (123)

Reflection Workflow — A reflection captures thoughts at the end of an activity. This workflow suggests how writing and rereading reflections enhances systematic u (408)

Topic Split Workflow — When you discover that a topic is too big for one wiki page then you can split the page into two. (203)

Folk Memory — This memo describes an adaptive architecture for federating peer object servers. Both the architecture and its implementations are called Fo (144)

Sister Sites — A wiki can look more than within itself for the pages that it references with internal links. I encouraged the relocation of conversations t (159)

Smallest Federated Wiki — Our new wiki innovates three ways. It shares through federation, composes by refactoring and wraps data with visualization. Follow our open (201)

Community Garden — The garden was an early experiment in remote sensing within the federated wiki protocol. We will leave these pages as they were composed, so (123)

Sensor Server — Sensor Server collectively refers to an ongoing series of projects to record and publish home sensor data. (299)

Factories — Uploaded image (110)

Batch Jobs — We explore representing batch job dependencies as wiki pages and generate interactive visualizations from these. (313)

Material Sustainability Index — This complex dataset includes many pages of method plugins and several pages that use the rollup plugin in interesting ways. (46)

Representational Plugins — We chose to lump data into plugins under thumbnails and then offer interchangeable visualizations bypassing the page of numbers. (29)

Computational Plugins — We wanted wiki to be able to compute. These plugins developed our notion of cooperating computational engines. (173)

About Reduce Plugin — The Reduce Plugin performs calculations appearing on other pages while collecting results into a summary. A slider allows one to vary one or (223)

Method Unit Conversions — We propose to extend the Method plugin's calculation with measurement unit tracking, checking, formatting and some implicit conversions. Uni (1385)

Method Expressions — Method gets and sets variables with long wordy keys. Here we use the context of a single Method to interpret an expression where values can (299)

Method Unit Coding — We add Method Unit Conversions to a plugin that is already reasonably complex. Here we consider how to approach this programming. (246)

Method Control Loops — We consider configuring a Method plugin to retrieve values from the right rather than the left. This allows computational cycles that sugges (383)

Fruit Trees — In the climates where fruit trees grow, the orchards give the land an almost magical identity: think of the orange groves of Southern Califo (101)

Greenhouse — Many efforts are being made to harness solar energy by converting it into hot water or electric power. And yet the easiest way to harness so (111)

Garden Growing Wild — A garden which grows true to its own laws is not a wilderness, yet not entirely artificial either. (94)

Where Colleagues Live — Here I identify residence locations for a colleague planning a trip to Portland. His specific request was advice on hip places to book a b&b (68)

Biketown — Portland's bike share program launched in July 2016 with 1,000 bikes at 100 stations across downtown and several neighborhoods. [https://www (208)

Portland Confluences — A confluence is where integer latitude and longitude lines cross. They are more interesting than the north pole and many many time closer. [ (110)

2001 Geocaches — A Geocache is a treasure hidden by high tech adventurers expressly to be found by the like minded armed with handheld GPS receivers. The Geo (101)

Ward's Home Page — 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. I called (369)

This Week's Changes — Here we list neighborhood titles that have changed in the last week with the most recent first and to the right. (24)

Conduit Metaphor — In linguistics, the conduit metaphor is a dominant class of figurative expressions used when discussing communication itself. It operates wh (209)

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)

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)

Visualizing High-Order Graphs — How might we draw meaningful diagrams of wiki that don't turn quickly into a fuzzball of links? (358)

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)

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)

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 — To bring together in a dynamic and collaborative environment the leaders in social impact, business, and venture capital investment innovati (75)

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 (579)

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 founding Smallest Federated Wiki project and report its early achievements with a series of short screencasts. (391)

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 (293)

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 (106)

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 (94)

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)