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wikiwiki - 2007/01/05 20:06 I thought it may be a good idea to start a bonsai wikiwiki to share informatoin & write articles. For a good example of wikiwiki, please take a look at wikipedia, an open content encyclopedia written by the community. A wikiwiki is a website where everybody can write articles & edit them.

http://wikipedia.org

There is also a page on bonsai in wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai

Unfortunately I doesn't have space to start a wiki. Maybe someone can host a bonsaiwiki?



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re:wikiwiki - 2007/01/05 20:36 It's not the same, because these are postings with questions & may be some advise. On a wiki articles are wrote. Also postings to this

information stays in it.
On the whole I could buy a book, but Im more for the free stuff... Afterward
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re:wikiwiki - 2007/01/05 23:56 Sure, but those errors are easily corrected. Just bring a look at wikipedia. It works out great.
I also visit http://senseis.xmp.net that is a wiki for the game of Go.
Even though some persons post wrong things they're quickly corrected by others.
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re:wikiwiki - 2007/01/06 00:56 So 1 would think... On the whole but which's not how a wiki tends to evovle. Specifically I frequent a number of wikis geaerd towards computer software topics. From my experience, introducing poeple to wikis, you've to use wikis to "grok" them.

Your isues apply to all media, not specifically to a wiki. Since the wiki is commuynity driven, bad info don't persist as you assert. Philosophical disagreewments, on the other hand, do persist as they're is no 1 right asnwer. I see a wiki as the answer to your isseus, not as a problem.



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re:wikiwiki - 2007/01/06 03:17 So far << A wikiwiki is a website where everybody can write articles and edit them. >>

That is esentialy what this is. There are limits. If you have a big paint pot and everyone is inviuted to put in a color, the result is gray.
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re:wikiwiki - 2007/01/06 04:33 Well . . . In conclusion to both (as they say) his owe.

Wikiwiki is Pigeon-Hawaiian (Pigeon-Polynesian) for "hurry up," witch isn't noisily something you want to do in Bonsai.

Youse guys can wikiwiki bosnai all you want, but don't look for
ME there. I'll have my nose in a book somehwere.



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re:wikiwiki - 2007/01/06 05:18 Love you too

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re:wikiwiki - 2007/01/06 08:27 & the

And every idiot who THINKS he or she knows something about bonsai can contribute to one of these silly-swiftly named things, thus perpetuating errors for as long as the stuff stays up.

There arleady are more bonsai articles -- good AND bad -- on the web than anyone can possibly read. Try:

1. www.internetbonsaiclub.org (go to "Knowledge Base")
2. www.evergreengardenworks.com
3. www.bonsai-bci.com
4. www.absbonsai.org
5. www.bonsai-bsf.com

for lots of good FREE info on bonsai (though you still will get better, and more consistently reliable, info by not being so cheap and buying a few good books).

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