There are lots of people around me—including on Merveilles—that maintain their own #wiki. I considered starting one too! However, there’s an existential problem with me and wikis. Expanding on my incompatibility with wikis in my new #blogpost, “Wiki, #Wittgenstein, and Wits:”
@aartaka I don't understand your justification, why does a wiki have to be formal, it's a living document, it's more often informal than formal! I don't think it can even be formal considering that it's typically a sliding window of someone's knowledge of some topic.
I can understand that you like the rigid structure of timestamped blog entries, but strawmaning wikis like that is doing yourself a disservice, it can be more than that, think of it like a blog, only free from tyranny of the timeline. :)
@neauoire I guess I am strongly framed by my experience with other wikis, which all seem quite detached and “objective.” Wikipedia and c2wiki are certainly influences there. So yes, I am strawmanning here, as I say myself, but it’s not that far from the “truth“ of what I’ve seen.
Re timelines: I actually don’t like timestamped media. Sure, my website index page lists publication time for posts, but that’s just an affordance for the reader to understand the historical context of writing. I perceive my blog more like a graph of loosely connected sensual images and ideas. Sometimes wiki-like bits of knowledge, but mostly just a hodgepodge of everything together.
@aartaka For me, a Wiki is a collectively edited artifact, and that's what makes it detached and aiming for objectivity. That certainly applies to the c2 wiki and to Wikipedia. I do see people refer to "personal wikis", which to me is an oxymoron and I prefer other terms such as "digital garden" (which however implies some maintenance over time, which is perhaps not what you want either).
