Hello everyone. So many people asked to be involved in the Wiki discussion, that I decided to post what I learned back to the list.
I was looking for a place to start a Wiki that (1) was free, at least initially, (2) was easy to use, i.e. didn't require learning to use html, and (3) was hosted by someone else, as I don't have my own web server. Through much googling and reading Wiki how-to's, I found http://www.seedwiki.com/. It has the easiest formatting set-up of any of the hosted Wikis I found. Unfortunately, the GUI (graphic user interface--like what's in Windows or Mac OS) only works on PCs, so any Mac user has to learn a bit of html. For people who want to learn more about what a wiki is, see the entry in the "Wikipedia": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki. BTW, I think the "Wikipedia" is about the coolest thing ever. It's a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit and add to, so it's constantly being expanded and updated. I appreciated Chris's comments about the care and feeding a Wiki needs. I'm a member of an urban planning listserv that over the last year has had intense discussions about a concept in urban planning called the "rural-urban transect". It's a concept that's in development, so there are lots of questions about how to define it, what it means, how to use it, etc. The listserv is great for linear discussions, but I wanted to be able to collect all of the questions and answers in one place to "grow" the concept. I love blogging, but I was looking for something that was more a product of group collaboration. Which brings up one of the paradoxes of Open Space. Everything in the world works on passion and responsibility, and nothing gets done unless an individual has the passion and takes responsibility. And yet . . . what groups do when they collaborate is so much more than the sum of individual actions. Now that's magic! Thanks for all of the insight people offered. If someone has experience with a particular Wiki, I'd love to hear it. And if you want to check on the development of my fledgling, see: http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?doc=Transect&wikiid=7789&CFID=243707&CFTOKE N=23344606&jsessionid=8830ff9a406f$0E$7Fg$ I'd especially love to hear (off-list) what questions non-city planners have when they read about the transect concept. Jennifer Hurley ------------------------------- Hurley~Franks and Associates Planning & Urban Design 1429 Walnut St., Ste. 601 Philadelphia, PA 19102 P: 215-988-9440 [email protected] http://www.hfadesign.com Association for the New Urbanism in PennsylvaniA (ANUPA) http://www.anupa.org ********************************************************************** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender by replying to this message and delete this material from any system it may be on. ********************************************************************** * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
