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path: "/posts/meta"
date: "2022-07-19T23:19:51.246Z"
title: "Meta"
type: "wiki"
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description: ""
note: "Max Fowler"
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This page is about the organization of this wiki and website

I was inspired by digital gardens, as well as a few other things.

I wanted to collect research in a way that was more engaged than just
compulsively saving things to are.na channels
(I like are.na, but also found [this heterodox piece criticizing are.na](https://w.e-worm.club/arena.gmi) 
to be resonant too), but was less polished
than one-time-published pieces of writing.

I'm interested in imperfectly-hierarchical somewhat-but-not-completely-chaotic wiki organization. 

First level, second level, and third level topics could be equally small or large
(this is one way that I understood the meaning of a rhizome). 

I wanted to create a system with some type of structure, 
but which could also lead to exploration and serendipity,
and felt playful and easy to add to and edit. 

Even the possibility of rabbit-holes within the structure, 
where a specific piece of the wiki, links into its own unique organizational structure inside of itself. 

I wanted all the information to be searchable via community search engines like [lieu](https://cblgh.org/lieu/),
and to be able to easily save and update specific documents that I might want to return to,
like recipes, or collections of links on a particular topic. 

Some of the websites that inspired me included [100r.co](https://100r.co/site/working_offgrid_efficiently.html), [cblgh.org](https://cblgh.org/), [fireflysanctuary.today](https://fireflysanctuary.today),
[mycelial.technology](http://mycelial.technology), and many others.

I enjoyed tao lin writing about numbers in a way that was detailed, 
but also didn't necessarily take them too seriously. 


