Difference between revisions of "WikiProcess"

Some say wiki is about a community of authors reading and writing for each other. But this misses the initial and central epiphany of wiki: the fusion of community into identity.

Wiki is about reading and writing for myself. But', you ask, where is the community in all this talk of self?

When I type words on a page I read them back and I react to what I read, and my reaction leads me to write more words. On a wiki like AboutUs, everyone is I. You, me, everybody, everybody who clicks "edit" is part of the entity that is writing for itself.

Some inexperienced folk may not understand this - they reply rather than edit and ThreadMess occurs. ThreadMess is community as it is generally known on weblogs and groups, but that's really not the WikiNature. The WikiNature is when I accept that I am writing these words - not "I" the original author of these words but "I" the reader, the "I, yes I, me". I type with my fingers, and my fingers are different fingers every time I click the Save page button. All these "I"s are I, the fused identity of the page as it comes into existence.

So wiki is not about community. It is about the WikiProcess of fusing all our identities into my identity, the identity AboutUs.