trees are people too

I did it. I made my first wiki.

First it was baffling, then it was frustrating, shortly followed by overwhelming. Following this there was a short succession of research, understanding and then enlightenment, with a fabulous finale of relief.

Still many teething issues. I need to work out how you create a reference list at the foot of the page, how I would attribute Mr Sherman’s quotes and how to put in images (I want to contact Tom and ask him if he minds if we use his mugshot on the page, along with some images from his work). The wiki formatting/editing page seems quite rudimentary to me, but the cheat sheet was a great help. I am sure it will become clearer after a bit of practice.

For now though, I am officially a contributor to a wiki. (Can I put that on my resume?)

Considering that, it’s interesting that much of our most esteemed wiki, wikipedia, is actually written by a small community, ‘a dedicated group of a few hundred volunteers’, most of who know each other. I guess this is much like our wiki will be, although it won’t be getting 2.5 billion page views per month, nor will it feature over 2 million articles.