User:Countrymike

Involved in more wikis than I care to think about ...

I also do a show on Beach Radio called Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown on Monday nights from 8-10pm (except for this week... i'm currently on holiday in the US) and am very involved in the radio station itself. Check out our blog: http://waihekeradio.blogspot.com

I'm very interested in this community project and have thought about doing something similar for some time now. I've been working on wikis for a long time and am currently on the Board of Advisors for a large wiki called WikiEducator which aims at developing Open Educational Resources. I also run http://auckland.wiki.org.nz a city wiki for Auckland and http://greymatter.co.nz where I provide wiki and blog hosting and services. I also do a bit with the Wikiversity community, here: http://en.wikiversity.org/ a project sponsored by the Wikimedia foundation. Earlier this year I attended the Techtonic Shift Think Tank in Vancouver, a meeting between MediaWiki developers and educators from all over the world to look at how to move the MediaWiki platform forward for the betterment of educators and students worldwide.

The most important thing to remember about wikis is that they're mostly about community, not web pages - and sustaining community in these things is really the trick. I think Waiheke can do it and this could be a fantastic resource for the community in many ways that we're not even anticipating currently ... pity about the domain name ... .com??? shouldn't it be a .org.nz ? hmmm....

Feel free to ask me anything about using MediaWiki, consider me your Wikineighbor.

brent.