More Than One Style

WikiPages need not be confined or restricted to one style or to but just a few WikiPatterns - DoingStuff.DonaldNoyes.20141022

 - particularly since there have been many different styles used in the past

Here is some old stuff related to Ward's initial intentions in what I call a NobleExperiment :

   A friend recently asked why I worked so hard to give this server an identity. 
   I believe he thought the subjects I addressed, particularly patterns, would be better served if anonymously
   woven together in the global web. 
 The following are excerpts from my reply.
  C2.COM as Public Space
   I've been influenced by Roger Blumberg's WWW '94 paper that asks if there isn't a better metaphor for the web
 than a super highway. A highway is, after all, a place we don't really want to be. The author suggests "public
 space" as a better metaphor and then considers three forms: museums, public lands and billboards. He makes
 some interesting observations. Have you ever noticed that some publicly owned museums can be hard to see
 while privately owned billboards are hard to avoid?
  I think of PPR as a privately owned public place. I want people to come visit and enjoy this space so I work
 hard improving it. My improvements are, in effect, my statement as to what the web should be. Although I
 admire many other places in the web, I've chosen not to mimic any in a literal way. Diversity is good. But
 diversity is also confusing. There is a lot of latitude in html to make different kinds of space. So I want to make
 it clear when you've entered or left this space. There are many doors leading both in and out. That's why it has
 identity.
 Actually, the server has three identities: C2, PPR and WikiWikiWeb. 
    - C2 is a billboard of sorts, though I've tried to make it valuable to those who see it.
    - PPR is mostly like a museum. It's dedicated to a narrow subject specifically to distinguish itself from 
    other museums.
    - Wiki is another space still, more like open land where one can do pretty much as they please with only 
    an occasional sign making suggestions. I will add more identities as their visions come to me.

Styles have been differently used - as distinct topics have been invented and crystalized into practices -

Topics InvitedAuthors - 1985 BruceAnderson KentBeck JimBesemer JimCoplien BobCzech WayneDowner JohnHeartfield RichardHelm RalphJohnson DougLea MoiraMallison PaulMcKenney StevePeterson LaurenRuthWiener HistoryOfPatterns 1987 HistoryOfExtremeProgramming ExtremeProgrammingTimeline - 1996 - 2004 Agile - 2001 - 20?? AgileProcesses - Beginning at Snowbird with the AgileManifesto -2001 Scrum - ScrumAlliance ScrumProcess ScrumBook - 2002

Wiki on Wiki (How wiki might be used and improved) -200?

Introduction of Deletions

What might save wiki - 201? - when it appeared that participation had been leveling with Page Contributions of 1 or 2 a day former participants tired of an era of discouragement of the addition and modification by new and old authors, who gave up and moved elsewhere

Present day emphasis on exhaustive discussion over a limited range of programming topics carried out by fewer than a half dozen people

Templating the Styles used in the past

Putting forward Styles that might now be used to make this place and related places more UsefulUsableUsed The SmallestFederatedWiki (a related and linked effort to make FederationOfInformation? applicable to the ArtOfProgramming as well as TheOtherThings