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Blog Directory

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Add your Blog. Use the following format:

Blog Name:
Author Name:
Blog URL:
Feed URL:
Brief description of Blog:

Food and Agriculture

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Community Media

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Grassroots Categories

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Home

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Have a vision for the future of Columbus? Want to see that idea grow and gain momentum leading up to the Columbus bicentennial in 2012? Use this wiki to share your ideas and improve upon others.

(If you do not know what a wiki is, and want some tips on how to use this site, see the Wiki How To page.)

This wiki has two goals:

stimulate ideas for the Columbus Citizen Summit on January 29th 2008
be an ongoing community resource for local innovation

How this space is (un)organized

The navigation to the left is based in part on the official 13 Focus Areas created by the City-appointed Bicentennial Commission. These areas are under the "Official Categories" section. Much citizen input has already been collected and can be read on the focus areas pages of the Columbus2012 web site.

But not every community issue is going to find its place in these categories. Not every one isgoing to beembraced by establishment Columbus nor paid for by bonds or levies. These ideas still deserve discussion and debate. The best can still be cultivated and taken on as citizen-led initiatives to make our community the best it can be. These ideas can be added under the "Grassroots Categories" section.

Lastly, if you are a blogger, you can list your blog in the blog directory so others can find you and read more of what you have to say.

How to use this space: Some suggestions

Just do it: Don't worry about picking the right category or putting your thoughts on the right page. Just write it. The "correct" organization may not emerge until later. Content can always be moved.

Share it, don't own it: This is collaborative space. Your contributions will likely be rewritten. See the wiki how to page for more on wiki etiquette.

Blog it then log it: Many contributors may also be bloggers. Use your blogs to develop your ideas then post the essentials of it here. You can use the threads area at the bottom of each page to provide links back to your blog conversations.

Moving People

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Sports & Recreation

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Safety

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Neighborhoods & Life

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Image & Marketing

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Jobs & Technology

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Health & Human Services

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Growth Through Learning

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Green Community

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Downtown Revitalization

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Diverse People

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History & Bicentennial

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"Official" Categories

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Arts & Culture

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Wiki How To

rjames01 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:10:00 CST

What is a Wiki?

"A Wiki can be thought of as a combination of a Web site and a Word document. At its simplest, it can be read just like any other web site, with no access privileges necessary, but its real power lies in the fact that groups can collaboratively work on the content of the site using nothing but a standard web browser. Beyond this ease of editing, the second powerful element of a wiki is its ability to keep track of the history of a document as it is revised. Since users come to one place to edit, the need to keep track of Word files and compile edits is eliminated. Each time a person makes changes to a wiki page, that revision of the content becomes the current version, and an older version is stored. Versions of the document can be compared side-by-side, and edits can be rolled back if necessary." -- Science of Spectroscopy

Wikis in Plain English (from Common Craft)

How to use this wiki

How to add content

First you must create a Wet Paint account and register to use the site.
Once registered, you can edit an existing page or create a new one. Use the tool links in the "Page Toolox" on the right (visible after you log in).
Use the "Navigation" menu in the upper left to find the appropriate page.
Note that the site is organized by nesting pages. For instance, if you want to create a page within the category of Transportation, go the the Transportation page before adding a new page; or you can select the page location from the menu when you create a page.
Don't worry if you make a mistake. Anyone registered to use the wiki can fix it, including you! That's the beauty of a wiki!
You can practice adding pages and content in the Sandbox area.

Wiki Ettiquette

Rule 1: Contribute some, edit often. The beauty of a wiki is the users can add to improve upon eachother's ideas. Contribute something, no matter how small or rough, and let others improve it.

Rule 2: Preserve the integrity of other's contributions. Edit to improve, not to eliminate. You may disagree with what another person has contributed. Try editing the entry to achieve a "neutral point of view" a perspective that acknowledges different ideas and notes weaknesses and strengths. An ecyclopedia entry shouuld be your model.

Rule 3: Use the forum to debate, discuss and muse. Each page has a discussion forum attached to it at the bottom. Use this for hashing things out.

Wiki Roles

Highly used wikis develop their own culture where users find their own unique roles. See the Wiki Patterns web site for some discussion of this. Perhaps you will become of the following:

WikiGnome

A WikiGnome is a person who performs small edits on a wiki to continually improve its overall quality . (A WikiGnome is also often known as a WikiGardener) WikiGnomes are important to the success of a wiki because their edits increase the value of everyone else's content, such as:

Cosmetic editing to keep the wiki from being overrun with "weeds" (typos, misspellings, poorly structured sentences and paragraphs)
Add or fix links to make sure relevant content is navigable within the wiki
Improve the flow and clarity of content improve the readability of the page
Setting an example for other users of how and when to use the wiki.

Maintainer

A maintainer is a person assigned or self-assigned to a page, space or section of a wiki who accountably takes responsibility for the quality of some of the content. The role may include that of a:

secretary, collecting information from comments and meetings into the wiki
refactorer, collapsing redundancy and inserting organization into a wiki
solicitor, encouraging input from community members
architect, categorizing pages, creating 'project' and 'overview' pages, assigning meanings to labels

Champion

A passionate, enthusiastic champion is essential to the success of wiki because s/he will be able to generate interest, give the appropriate amount of training for each person at the right time, monitor growth of the tool and fix problems that could derail adoption.