federated wiki
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Using Federated Wiki in the Classroom: Getting Started
This post assumes that you’ve read some other posts on federated wiki. There’s a few dozen on this site if you have not. Click the federated wiki tag and then scroll down to see them all. If you know what federated wiki is, the following description should get you started with federated wiki use in your… Continue reading
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Copying a Whole Site Is Remarkably Easy In Smallest Federated Wiki
Operations in Smallest Federated Wiki tend to be page-level — dashboard style site managers have been avoided for the moment. Still, the speed at which operations can be executed makes site-wide stuff pretty easy. This video shows how to copy a small fifteen page site in about a minute. If you think about how long… Continue reading
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The Web is Broken and We Should Fix It
Via @roundtrip, this conversation from July: There’s actually a pretty simple alternative to the current web. In federated wiki, when you find a page you like, you curate it to your own server (which may even be running on your laptop). That forms part of a named-content system, and if later that page disappears at… Continue reading
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The Part of Wiki Culture the Classroom Forgot
If you look at most treatments of wiki in the classroom, people talk about collaboration, group projects, easy publishing, revision control. All of these are important. But one important element of what makes a wiki a wiki has been underutilized. Wikis not only introduced the editable page to users, but the idea of page-creating links. (In… Continue reading
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Amelia Bedelia’s Hats Are Not the Problem
So there’s been an Ameila Bedelia Wikipedia hoax. We learn that Amelia was not inspired by a maid from Cameroon who wore sensational hats, a “fact” cited in a vandalism which survived on the site since 2009. Yawn. First, let me say in a world where Elsevier was recently discovered to have published half a dozen… Continue reading
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Federated Wiki for Distributed Notetaking (and the surprising pedagogical implications of that)
I mentioned earlier that I’d decided to change my explanation of federated wiki from a “top-down” explanation to a “bottom-up” one. It makes a heck of a difference. I made this video below for one of our faculty, to show how even something as simple as notes becomes an integrative exercise in federated wiki. I… Continue reading
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Doug Engelbart’s Grocery List
If you’ve watched the Mother of All Demos, you know that one of the aha! moments of it is when Engelbart pulls out his grocery list. The idea is pretty simple –if you put your grocery list into a computer instead of on a notepad, you could sort it, edit, clone it, categorize it, drag-and-drop… Continue reading
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The Universal JSON Canvas and Ben’s Five Star Plugin
I’ve borrowed Jon Udell’s term (“universal canvas”) for talking about SFW. In this video I talk about a plugin my brother Ben wrote for SFW earlier this week, and try to show what that means in semi-mechanical terms. One of the things I think it starts to show is how much of a construction kit… Continue reading
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Explaining Federation Through Family Movie Night, Part I
I’ve been struggling to explain to people why federation is necessary. In practice, federation doesn’t get you much until there are people around to federate with. Worse, it doesn’t get you anywhere until there is valuable material in your federation. Valuable material takes time to produce, and people aren’t going to spend that time making… Continue reading
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Two Minute Federated Wiki: Sharing Across Unrelated Wikis
With Federated Wiki you can benefit from the work people are doing on completely unrelated sites, and use their work to pull together a site of your own very quickly. Continue reading