A Beautiful Wiki Page

Inger-Mette created a page that pleasantly shocked me. Here it is: Obeya.

You may want to go backward in time to see this page morph. Her page began with music that she found consonant with the page's mood, intent, and content.

She finished the page with a Jazz performance in her town.

Sandwiched in between was the rather dry YouTube presentation of "content". I added a relevant map, survey, graph, and an outline of the information in the YouTube presentation. Now this page is high dimensional and more or less includes Beauty, Good, Truth, and Economy, meaning that at the scale of a FedWiki page we have an integration of the necessary and sufficient aspects of a social system.

This micro-integration is exciting to me. Each page can be a hologram of a healthy social system, without delay, without isolation.

_ From this feedback from Marc, I abstract the following - the morphing into something new ...i call it mind-strech...like when the nodes in my brain makes new connection like a plasticity in a muscle and part of the neuro-thinking-cells in my brain, as when it has resonnance on a cellular level in the body when the feeling is a flow of happiness or joy, due to this feeling of resonnance. I am sure there are more scientific way of expressing this _

# I consider patterns for a beautiful wiki page: # Visual Art (graphic, dance, movie)

# Music

VIMEO 166613020 Dance to Music filmed by Isabella Pierson, my oldest daughter.

YOUTUBE F2ZhVSWk9XI Georgia on My Mind, by Ray Charles. Longing for home.

# Story Ideally story carries the potential for moral consideration.

I left my home in Crowley, Louisiana in the fifth grade. I have been a foreigner ever since.

Abstracted from a poem I wrote in my 20's:

-walking head bowed along a road, toes deep in ruts of warm brown powered dirt, as across a splintered bridge of oil field ties strung over canal of lily pads and sequestered subterranean erk life (those fishes are slimed and swum slipperier, more at home in the night of some bank hole dwelling dug for milted roe multiplying in the cold) over slow straight green dotted canal, nursing rice fields in the spring, then run dry to a baked bottom state of waiting, with pooled canal organisms dead or mostly dead.

# Facts Five schools before college.

Eleven towns in sequence: Jenerette, LA Indian Bayou, LA Atlanta, GA Crowley, LA Connersville, IN Evansville, IN New Albany, IN Bloomington, IN Indianapolis, IN Dallas, TX Bellingham, WA Graphs and maps can add to understanding of the facts.

# Uses Longing for home and friends creates a tension, a desire, to appreciate place and people and even to help others to feel more at home and be with their neighbors.

# Affordances Together graphic art and music powerfully set a tone for the page. Story carries the tension and meaning forward. Facts provide parts and relationships. Uses are gifts for strangers. Each piece of the pattern is a human affordance available for meaning making and action.

One should consider getting feedback in the page, perhaps using surveys.

# Beauty Perhaps this is best understood as Christopher Alexander wished for us to understand beauty. How wonderful if the FedWiki, inspired by Alexander, were to learn to create beauty in each page.

I am inspired to collect references to art and music that is intertwined with my life, so that I can more readily have it beautify my FedWiki writing. All of this begs the question. Writing is too small a word for the FedWiki, it is truly a creative space with many artistic tools adapted to multiple media.

I will start some pages with music and let the music write the rest of the page. I will start some pages with poetry and let the poem write the rest of page. Let the Picture Write the rest of the page.

Typically we (I) begin with a concept. Let's play for contrast with: Let the Idea Write the rest of the page. And I will test my own bias in this series of personal experiments: Let the Graph Write the rest of the page.