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Work on my main project—www.aplacetostudy.org—has greatly intensified and to keep fropm getting overloaded, I'm suspending work on this prototype. You are welcome to look around and to even leave a comment someplace, lbut the site won't change for a number of months. Robbie McClintock (robbie@aplacetostudy.org)
Welcome to the Wiki at Windrows
As residents of Princeton Windrows, we introduce this wiki to test whether we can use it to empower and enlighten our pursuit of over-55 independent living.
At Windrows, we benefit from an effective, one-way flow of communication. The monthly Grid, new electronic bulletin boards, our cubbies and their nearby walls — all keep us informed about events and opportunities. Window on Windrows fills us in on committee reports and interesting goings on. It's hard, however to make that flow go two-ways or occasion sustained group discussions.
Through the rest of 2023, the Wiki at Windrows will provisionally reproduce online our existing flows of information and attach to them opportunities for residents to interact with queries, comments, and discussion, should they feel moved to do so. One can interact through the Wiki as easily as writing an email, and doing so can blossom into a many-sided discussion triggered by our established patterns of activity. If it doesn't catch on by next year, we can lay the test to rest, and if it does, we can make the Wiki at Windrows an ongoing resource in our shared activities.
What's here now is an incomplete prototype. We're building it on the same software that runs Wikipedia, so it has lots of capacities, but it's up to us to make them serve our interests and purposes. People say wikis are always works in progress, and that's very true here, for we've just started out. You'll find lots of pages blank, and today, many may look sort of finished yet tomorrow they'll suddenly change, grow more paragraphs, or even disappear. The Wiki at Windrows is incomplete and continually changing, which is as it should be. As residents of Windrows, we can and should create the Wiki at Windrows as a means to communicate and interact with each other, a continuous experience.
To the right of the screen, you'll see the Navigator. It'll be there, wherever you go on the wiki. The upper part is a clickable map that will move you from section to section. The lower part has a list of links that lead to key places in each section. Explore. Start thinking what you might want to do through the wiki. To speak your mind, click an "Add your thoughts" box — they're all around. If you feel a bit lost, you can always return here by clicking "The Wiki at Windrows" at the top.