Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Wiki (was Communications)

[Tree Bressen (tree]

Hi,

Here is another example of a wiki that i'm personally very excited about 
and may be of interest to other process-minded folks on this list: the new 
wiki being created by the National Coalition on Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD).


From my friend Tom Atlee:

  This website is a participatory empowerment workspace for all of us who 
believe in the importance and power of dialogue and deliberation -- process 
of the people, by the people and for the people.  You can explore the web's 
most comprehensive list of participatory practices.  This list has group 
processes, approaches to community dialogue, technical tools for 
collaboration, participatory organizational methods, democratic 
innovations, and more.  Already almost two hundred practices have been 
identified and about half of them have been described and referenced in 
some detail.  More are being added all the time. There is no limit to the 
participatory practices that can be listed here.  The amazing site I'm 
talking about is the "Participatory Practices" section of the National 
Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) Wiki 
http://www.wiki-thataway.org/.

WHAT'S A WIKI?

A Wiki is a website where anyone can change anything on any page AND easily 
create new pages that are automatically linked to all other relevant pages 
in the website.

Wikis were developed by computer programmers to work on computer programs 
together.  Now they are used by businesses, scholars, activist groups, and 
hundreds of others to do collaborative work. Perhaps the most remarkable 
Wiki so far is http://www.wikipedia.org -- a grassroots, self-organized, 
co-created encyclopedia with 200,000 entries in English and 300,000 entries 
in almost 50 other languages.  Check it out. (I've helped develop the entry 
on "Wisdom," for example.)

A general introduction can be found at Wiki For Beginners 
http://www.wiki-thataway.org/index.php?page=WikiForBeginners.

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Cheers,

--Tree



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