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· Apr 27, 2020

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digital community gardens 😍

Ian

@_jonesian

In my head, this looks like a wiki. Where you can add topics and update them. Is this in the ball park?

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@chrisbiscardi

I think that wikis have a serious ownership problem that leads to only people who ignore that sort of thing making edits.

Ian

@_jonesian

I totally agree. Ownership is a hard problem to solve in more than just a technical way

It's interesting because my personal digital garden contains a LOT of proprietary information, not so much mine because I'm not concerned about that so much, but other people's that it's important to not "leak". so I can't just be fully open. It's a tough one.

the idea of a "wiki" is tainted because it just means "Wikipedia" to most folks. I don't think the ownership problem is inherent to "wiki" but just the mental framework of an overused/abused term ie blog, jamstack, wiki etc

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@chrisbiscardi

true, you can't avoid wikpedia if you search for "wiki + anything"

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wikipedia is psyops 😳

I love the format of web mentions / interlinked personal sites to help solve the ownership issue. "Collective notes" on a single topic, but with multiple authors so that the notes can show up in everyone's personal digital gardens. With bidirectional links (obvs).

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Hub and spoke format? Central website as communal gardening space, with individual plants (aka. notes/nodes) pulled in from approved contributors. Those nodes/notes are sourced from personal gardening spaces. Everyone has both sense of ownership, and benefits of collaboration.

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I definitely think that if there is a collective that decides to publish together (webring, whatever we call it), the centralized point of entry is important (in addition to the spokes). I've been mulling this format for the party-corgi community partially in newsletter format