Back Link to 26.10.21 6.36 pm, which brought us here. This is a Talk Page attached to that Learning Diary Entry.
> digitization is picking us up at the wrong end
Ward – see General Federated Wiki Discussion 
, which we reproduce below – is guessing this "wrong end" means text entered at one place ends up in another. This can happen when there are multiple windows open at once such that the editor gets confused about what it is editing. Reloading the browser tab will insure pages represent what is on the server. If something is shown to be in the wrong place it can be easily dragged to the right place.
You might also mean that when cooperating with others one might think they are responding to what has been written only to discover you were missing much of what might have been said. Again, refreshing the browser tab brings everything up to date.
This makes wiki "slow" compared to keystroke-at-a-time sharing. This is consistent with the "ownership" of one's own writing.
> Without screen sharing .. it would not be possible to get started with the Fed Wiki.
Yes, this is regrettably true. Many of the routine operations are hidden in special keystrokes or gestures. Ward has set out to create a training site where these operations can be introduced slowly and practiced. This was meant to be a series of "games" but only the first was completed:
start.fed.wiki
http://start.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/start-playing-wiki/view/long-chain-of-pages → Long Chain of Pages
Some useful things are accomplished by sequences of operations which we call a "workflow". Here we catalog some of the most familiar:
work.fed.wiki
http://work.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/familiar-workflows → Familiar Workflows
We resort to screen sharing and find a new user can be talked through their first edits in 10 or 15 minutes. The navigation and then following instructions on the You're New Here page works well:
http://work.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/how-to-wiki/fed.wiki.org/field-guide-to-the-federation/hello.ward.bay.wiki.org/youre-new-here
We admit to a bias toward making more things possible over making the things we already do easier. Commercial software often sets these priorities the other way but all of us care about both in the end.
We have created a plugin meant for classes sharing subdomains based on a common domain name. This is the Present Plugin which reports who is present and what they have been doing. The plugin is available and worked well in our "dojo" until many strangers crashed the party:
http://ward.dojo.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/about-present-plugin
ward.dojo.fed.wiki
This plugin locates peers of the origin site and reports size and most recent activity for each.
plugins.fed.wiki.org
We explain federated wiki plugins. We define their role interpreting content, recount our experience writing many, describe principles and strategies for future plugins, and offer a step-by-step guide for new plugin authors. We'll also collect pointers here to good plugins when they emerge.
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See one of the above mentioned workflows: Reflection Workflow for systematic understanding.