Frequently Asked Questions

this will grow once people ask us questions.....frequently

Why is the website so sparse?

• You may not have enough privileges to see all of the pages
• Many parts are visible only to our authors, or site administrators.
• All have agreed to abide by Creative Commons

How do I become a member?

• Please go to the membership page

Can you help me use the website?

• YES - see our web FAQs here

Why did we chose Wiki?

• The Wiki style of website was conceived in 1994 by Ward Cunningham.
• Wikipediais a well-known example that enables thousands to collaborate.
• This website uses a more versatile Open Source system called TikiWiki

Why don't we use Facebook or Twitter?

• We do...

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• Blogging and social networking websites are very useful for organizations like ours.
• We use Facebook and Twitter to provoke ideas, announce events and keep in touch with people.
• We also use Wikipedia as a public space for re-defining our mission and agenda.
• However, co-authoring is vitally important to the shared development of metadesign.
• Unfortunately, none of the above formats make co-authoring easy or effective enough.

Wikis encourages co-authoring

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• Our web programmer Jonny Bradley is a prominent TikiWiki developer
• He does our trouble-shootingand keeps us up-to-date with upgrades etc.

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