21-05-2010, 07:21 AM
Thanks Paul and Magda
On Paul's help request - briefly:
Search for any term in the top search box. If it does not produce a page fitting what you have in mind, simply click on the red coloured term you searched on that appears in the search results following 'Create this page' and create it yourself. Like anything else the page creation/editing process can seem intimidating at first but frankly it is less complex than using MS Word or similar. There is also comprehensive help available in the linked help files.
The thing about authoring for a wiki is that you have to have a pretty thick skin because anyone else can come along and edit your masterpiece. Some find this hard to deal with and it clearly attracts vandals, spammer, those with an agenda - spooks?? and the like; but all changes are easily patrolled and reversed. If such edits are clearly malicious or counter to clearly stated policy, the culprit will be blocked from editing by a sysop (currently just your truly but volunteers welcome).
It is intended as a reference source, NOT a discussion board
I don't really expect it to take off and I'm relaxed about it really. Learned a lot about dedicated server management and wiki software too. I just intend to keep plugging away at it as my Winston Smith way of dealing with the Orwellian world we now inhabit.
Funny thing is that I've started it at a time when I'm beginning to lean to the view that there is probably not much time left for this sort of thing to be of general use, because epoch-defining upheavals to the established order are probably much closer than our normal everyday 'consensus trance' allows for.
Still, It's therapy and if it pulls some 'Authoritatives' chains so much the better.
On Paul's help request - briefly:
Search for any term in the top search box. If it does not produce a page fitting what you have in mind, simply click on the red coloured term you searched on that appears in the search results following 'Create this page' and create it yourself. Like anything else the page creation/editing process can seem intimidating at first but frankly it is less complex than using MS Word or similar. There is also comprehensive help available in the linked help files.
The thing about authoring for a wiki is that you have to have a pretty thick skin because anyone else can come along and edit your masterpiece. Some find this hard to deal with and it clearly attracts vandals, spammer, those with an agenda - spooks?? and the like; but all changes are easily patrolled and reversed. If such edits are clearly malicious or counter to clearly stated policy, the culprit will be blocked from editing by a sysop (currently just your truly but volunteers welcome).
It is intended as a reference source, NOT a discussion board
I don't really expect it to take off and I'm relaxed about it really. Learned a lot about dedicated server management and wiki software too. I just intend to keep plugging away at it as my Winston Smith way of dealing with the Orwellian world we now inhabit.
Funny thing is that I've started it at a time when I'm beginning to lean to the view that there is probably not much time left for this sort of thing to be of general use, because epoch-defining upheavals to the established order are probably much closer than our normal everyday 'consensus trance' allows for.
Still, It's therapy and if it pulls some 'Authoritatives' chains so much the better.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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