Welcome to the Craig Burton Wiki.

Anybody who knows me knows my passion and insistence on the importance of language.

As I have thought about that, I realized that a "community" lexicon would be more powerful than an individual's lexicon. I also realized that the wiki is a great tool for creating community lexicon.

So here is my experiment, the Craig Burton Wiki.

I will be posting the Craig Burton Lexicon here. Feel free to contribute.

I will also point to other Wikis and lexicon sites that I think are useful.

So here is one, the Kynetx Network Service (KNS) lexicon site.


This is a wiki, documenting the search for the best wiki. Appropriate use of a wiki eh?

While researching wikis I found interesting comments about what a wiki is and why people use them. The following are a little more aggressive than I would say it, but interesting nonetheless.

Arguments

• wiki provides a core knowledge of information that is uncensored by powerful commercial or governmental organizations. Wiki participants are intelligent people who will verify the information they are receiving. People who distrust wikis have not thought through the consequences. For every saboteur bullshit artist, there are two angels who would repair the damage.
• Any and all information can be deleted by anyone. Wiki pages represent nothing but discussion and consensus because it's much easier to delete flames, spam and trivia than to indulge them. What remains is naturally and mostly meaningful.
• wiki is not wysiwyg. It's an intelligence test of sorts to be able to edit a wiki page. It's not rocket science.
• wiki is far from real time. Folks have time to think, often days or weeks, before they follow up some wiki page. So what people write is often well-considered.
• wiki participants are, by nature, a pedantic, ornery, and unreasonable bunch. So there's a camaraderie here we seldom see outside of our professional contacts.

Here were some more comments:

From the original Wiki (in c2.com, see WelcomeVisitors for a general introduction about that wiki). This is one wiki way (and almost for sure not the only one.) The wiki way will be our way, the one we create every day with our feelings, thoughts, and actions. So be careful and respectful and we will all benefit from this.

• The WikiNature is typing in a bunch of book titles and coming back a day later to find them turned into origami birds floating in the Amazon.

Writing on Wiki is like regular writing, except you get to write so much more than you write, and you get to think thoughts you never thought. Like minimalist Japanese brushstroke drawings, you provide the few, elegant slashes of ink, and other minds fill in the rest. It befuddles and enlightens.

• 	post
  write		read
  	edit

In the doing is found the true meaning of the wiki nature. Really, it's not accurate to talk about a WikiNature, we would do better recognizing that Nature, itself, is Wiki.

As I say later on, the best thing for doing research so far was the discovery of the wikimatrix. The wikimatrix has a great wizard that helps narrow down what wikis to look at to best suit your purposes.