This March, the world's first wiki will turn 20 years old. For that first project Ward Cunningham posted this simple note:

"We've invited a number of people to participate in this project. All were chosen because they are web competent and actively interested in PatternLanguage. Well, actually, a few were chosen because they happened by the office while this thing was being debugged. But all are interesting people to be sure."
-- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InvitedAuthors

A certain amount of weirdness that is expected every time you open up Wikipedia

http://listen.hatnote.com/#en

Go to Wikipedia every day. Often first thing in the day. Why?

News
History
Pictures
Gossip

Part of being digitally literate is being willing to explore a few rabbit holes. You need a certain amount of willingness to bread the thing as you try to open it.

Knowing how to use wikipedia, how to use a wiki and how to create a wikipedia entry are all part of larger knowing--digital literacy.

I am a bit leery of the phrase "digital literacy". What make digital stuff any different than virtual stuff. People of a certain age, "straddle generations", have felt the need to describe the uncomfortable nature of big change. And make no mistake, we are in the middle of an utter revolution whether we like it or not.

Doug Belshaw is my go-to expert for this: http://dougbelshaw.com/ebooks/digilit/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yQPoTcZ78

https://hackpad.com/Wikipedia-Linkages-SUfnamOfqyp



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