More Than One Style

WikiPages need not be confined or restricted to one style or to but just a few WikiPatterns - DoingStuff.DonaldNoyes.20141022


        - particularly since there have been many different styles used in the past

Here is some old stuff related to Ward's initial intentions in what I call a NobleExperiment :


        A friend recently asked why I worked so hard to give this server an identity. 

        I believe he thought the subjects I addressed, particularly patterns, would be better served if anonymously

        woven together in the global web. 

        The following are excerpts from my reply.

        C2.COM as Public Space

        I've been influenced by Roger Blumberg's WWW '94 paper that asks if there isn't a better metaphor for the web

        than a super highway. A highway is, after all, a place we don't really want to be. The author suggests "public

        space" as a better metaphor and then considers three forms: museums, public lands and billboards. He makes

        some interesting observations. Have you ever noticed that some publicly owned museums can be hard to see

        while privately owned billboards are hard to avoid?

        I think of PPR as a privately owned public place. I want people to come visit and enjoy this space so I work

        hard improving it. My improvements are, in effect, my statement as to what the web should be. Although I

        admire many other places in the web, I've chosen not to mimic any in a literal way. Diversity is good. But

        diversity is also confusing. There is a lot of latitude in html to make different kinds of space. So I want to make

        it clear when you've entered or left this space. There are many doors leading both in and out. That's why it has

        identity.

        Actually, the server has three identities: C2, PPR and WikiWikiWeb. 

        - C2 is a billboard of sorts, though I've tried to make it valuable to those who see it.

        - PPR is mostly like a museum. It's dedicated to a narrow subject specifically to distinguish itself from 

        other museums.

        - Wiki is another space still, more like open land where one can do pretty much as they please with only 

        an occasional sign making suggestions. I will add more identities as their visions come to me.

Styles have been differently used - as distinct topics have been invented and crystalized into practices -


        Topics 

        InvitedAuthors - 1985

        BruceAnderson

        KentBeck

        JimBesemer

        JimCoplien

        BobCzech

        WayneDowner

        JohnHeartfield

        RichardHelm

        RalphJohnson

        DougLea

        MoiraMallison

        PaulMcKenney

        StevePeterson

        LaurenRuthWiener 

        HistoryOfPatterns 1987

        HistoryOfExtremeProgramming 

        ExtremeProgrammingTimeline - 1996 - 2004

        Agile - 2001 - 20??

        AgileProcesses - Beginning at Snowbird with the

        AgileManifesto -2001

        Scrum - 

        ScrumAlliance

        ScrumProcess

        ScrumBook - 2002


        Wiki on Wiki (How wiki might be used and improved) -200?


        Introduction of Deletions


        What might save wiki - 201? - when 

        it appeared that participation had been leveling with Page Contributions of 1 or 2 a day

        former participants tired of an era of discouragement of the addition and modification by new and old authors, who gave up and moved elsewhere


        Present day emphasis on exhaustive discussion over a limited range of programming topics carried out by fewer than a half dozen people


        Templating the Styles used in the past


        Putting forward Styles that might now be used to make this place and related places more UsefulUsableUsed

        The SmallestFederatedWiki (a related and linked effort to make FederationOfInformation applicable to the ArtOfProgramming as well as TheOtherThings