A wiki can be your notebook, or your blog, or whatever you can dream up, but please don't use Wards Wiki for that purpose.
We all have things we think are worth keeping a note of, possibly in some kind of Log Book, or maybe instructions for using a piece of software, or other aide-memoires. Wiki seems like the obvious resource to store your jottings in - but it is not. Creating pages that are of little value to anyone in the community bar yourself is abuse of the facility that the Wiki Wiki Web's host, Ward Cunningham, has provided us with. If you simply have to have personal notes here, please keep them on your Home Page. You can do what you like there. If you need more space, why not set up a Personal Wiki? It's easy, fun and useful.
A Programmers Notebook is a valuable tool, and Wiki As Programmers Notebook works well for many. Steven Newton, for example, created a Personal Wiki and has gained a lot of value from keeping random thoughts, things to remember, and his little tidbits of insight together in a searchable, linkable, private form.
See also Wiki Squatting, Walled Garden, Off Topic.
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