Ward Cunningham

I wrote Federated Wiki while I served as Nike's open-data fellow. I currently work for NewRelic in Portland, Oregon. Here I imagine the Control Panel Museum.

Why Panels

The Museum of Control Panels. Featuring planes, space ships, submarines, construction trucks, and historical computers. All hands on.

Adam Solove suggested a museum of control panels in a tweet March 8, 2014. See Founding Tweet

Why Here

I'm always looking for collaborative activities that would benefit from federated collaboration. I wasn't sure how I would tackle Adam's request. I'm still not sure now. But even small successes here would inform future work on panels and other operational collections.

Participate

We are a network of panel documenters. Start your collection with your own works or copy our pages and make them better. Learn How To Wiki. Email us when you have something to share.

Related Work

Here we mention some related federated wiki projects that might inspire innovation here to bring panels to life.

See also Related Sites

Federated wiki will be good for collecting historical facts and recollections. I'm just probing how this might work.

We have translated downloadable copies of the classic interactive fiction Adventure game. We distribute the translator as open source. github

We explain federated wiki plugins. We define their role interpreting panels and offer a step-by-step guide for new plugin authors.

We consider configuring a Method plugin to complete computational cycles that approximate solutions that are easily reconfigured and conveniently animated.

We url-encode images dropped on the factory plugin. This captures the sharing dynamics expected of the federation but it doesn't match with current asset practices.