Tools are things we use as authors. Authoring is the act of using tools to make something. When the thing is made we can discard the tool.
However wiki is political. This means that our core aim is to avoid a power distinction between the consumers of content (readers), and the makers of the content (writers). Federated wiki extends this idea to code.
Throwing away the tool in this content is not as harmless as it may be in other contexts. We seek to provide access to the tools that creat the wiki-content at all times, through the concept of provenance, and through making the act of creating and modyfing the open-source tools we use as easy to participate in as the act of writing.
To avoid visual clutter we seek to hide our tools from the reader in wiki, without removing their ability to author, refactor and edit the content. This leads us to think of the following types of tooling for wiki:
# Proposal
We should create a clear, and yet navigable distinction, between refactoring tools, and the other forms of tooling.
# See also - Clicks and Drops - Clicks are not Drops - Visual Clutter - Tools - Authoring - About Home - Wiki is political
# Links to refactor
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Starting to create a simple minimal Fedwiki-page authoring tool.
A continuously evolving environment means that many interesting tools are created and then forgotten. Here we list some favourites,.
Wiki's strength is as a tool for shared thinking in which the focus is on the development of your own personal experience and understanding, but to do this with the support and collaboration of other minds.
This is the current domain of wiki-plugins. Without these plugins the reader cannot view the content appropriately, and the author cannot refactor this content when it is within wiki.
Henrik Kniberg describes complex and confusing causal relationships with disarmingly simple drawings. Now he joins other graphic innovators in explaining climate change and our own obligations to address it.
Search for what you need from the federation. See Local Changes, Recycled Pages.
Here I research and democratic tools, practices, and software that can be of use to democratic movements. In particular you may find the following research links useful: