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Date wrote = March 2, 2008 History of AIA, (was AFBA) on the "ONE in One" wiki site... (Message #11)
I've created -that is, started- a wiki site with a history of our group's AFBA general meetings so far: the e-mails, announcements, pictures of the notes written, etc., and links to the organizations of the folks who have attended so far. I hope it is nearly complete. If not, let me know with names and links, and other info. This wiki site is a site in progress. Some of you received info concerning this wiki site at the meeting held on Jan 12, 2008.
The wiki site is: "ONE in One", or just "ONE", http://oneinone.pbwiki.com/, ONE in One wiki - The One gathering place for GLBT folk..., [now go to the "GLBT" wiki site which replaces the older one for the time being] which is a web-page-like screen which you can edit right from your own computer. Directions are on-screen in the different links. I hope all of you folks like and enjoy this wiki site, and will take advantage of this tool for your own benefit, along with this AIA Yahoo! Groups site. This wiki site can be used by all of you folks for many things, such as different meeting dates and place of gathering, lists of different kinds of resources we can use, links to all kinds of helpful information, -just use your imagination for possibilities... Please take a little time to learn how to edit a page; it's fun and would be mighty useful to the rest of us. If you make mistakes, just try again; I can help at times. (The new PBwiki editor 2.0 is in beta and will be out soon, which will make editing much easier, and less frustrating, doing what it is supposed to do. [Present one does not always work right, or do as expected.] Even so, the PBwiki program probably is the best type of wiki out there, and the easiest to use, and one of the fastest growing wiki out of many other kinds of wikis.
Even large documents can be posted on the wiki site; if it is too large for this wiki site, or gets to be too many documents, send it to me by e-mail so I can post it on our church (The Rock MCC) wiki site (http://therockmcc.pbwiki.com/), and make a link to it, since that wiki has tons of memory because it is paid wiki site, which this wiki site does not have so far, since it is the free basic wiki... Later on, if it becomes a permanent feature of "Atlanta Faith-Based Alliance" (AFBA), [or whatever we are called in the future], it can be upgraded to more memory and to additional features.
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Concerns concerning the wiki site by other folks of AFBA
(A) Second, creating a wiki site (is that the correct terminology?) on your own initialive is wonderful, Bernard, but maybe also somewhat confusing. Admittedly, we've had a start-up process that hasn't been smooth, and adding "unofficial" websites (ones not agreed to by all, or without more input) seeme, to me, not the best route to travel. by Lorraine Fontana Re: Digest Number 4 (Message #12) Date = 3-5-08
(B) Are folks visiting the "ONE in One" wiki site? Is what I'm doing with the wiki site OK with all you folks at the Atlanta Faith Based Alliance? So far, I have not heard from anyone concerning the wiki site except for you... It pretty much re-copies your emails sent to us, and preserves a history of what has happened so far. Have you looked at the photos of the notes taken at the last meeting yet? I noticed that someone was typing notes into their computer at the last meeting. Will we get an edited copy of those notes? Or will they be in the next e-newsletter from your group? Date = 11-30-07 in my e-mail to Louis Hinton
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Date = March 9, 2008 Re: Digest Number 4 (Message #17)
As far as the wiki site goes, [yes, this is the correct terminology; see "
wiki" on
Wikipedia, "wiki" is a Hawaiian-language word for
"fast" -meaning you can edit (update, make changes to) a wiki page and see the results immediately on your computer screen.], I only started
ONE in One wiki to keep track of what has taken place so far for my own remembrance, for my own personal record. Which I had hoped would be of benefit to the whole
AFBA meetings group. Grant it, it is
not an official wiki site, nor website of our
AFBA meetings group. I hope we have one someday, but this is a start. Most websites cost money to run; a wiki site can start out free, costing no money to run, until we might want to expand it. But what ever, I hope you all want to use a wiki site
in addition to a website. I believe a wiki site can be a very valuable tool for us to use. And as far as I know, the
PBwiki program (
History of PBwiki created in
2005) is the way to go, since that part of it is online only -that is, it's an hosted service at the
PBwiki headquarter s, costing nothing to use, and
no program to download onto your own computer. To have a basic wiki site on the Internet is free; additional storage, bandwidth, features does cost money as the
PBwiki brand of a wiki is upgraded.
A wiki site is not a website, but is similar to one [some say it is a website, but there are big differences between them]. A website is edited only by 1 or 2 people for the most part. A wiki site can be edited by
all the folks in our
AFBA meetings group. It is a tool [
Collaborative software] [similar to
social software] that I'm personally
excited about, since it can be used by the general public for so many things. Each person in our
AFBA meetings group, or sub-group, can have their own wiki page (also called a web page) on a wiki site to put notes on, etc. that they want others in the
AFBA meetings group to view, and maybe even edit themselves.
The more people use and edit a wiki site, the more valuable it becomes over time. It can hold a wealth of different kinds of information for us to use. I had never heard of a wiki until about a year ago. And wiki sites are fairly new -first one was made in
1994- compared to websites which have been around since
1989 (WWW -
World Wide Web). What was to become the
Internet itself is a little older, started at universities and government agencies (
1958), then linked together and was quite primitive at first, just as computers were primitive at that time. Any current laptop computer is much more powerful then the old big bulky manually-switched controlled computers that filled up a room a few years ago.
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