About this Wiki
Introduction
A wiki is a web based software tool typically used for collaborative writing and documentation.
Some well known examples of Wiki use are
wikipedia.org,
wiktionary.org and applications like
Politicopia.com.
Jerry intends wiki as a bottom up approach to getting feedback on the process and services in the region without doing a lot of FocusGroups which treat consumers/ survivors like subjects instead of people...
Wikis for Comparision
Various versions of wiki software exist, and PBWiki is considered to be one of the easiest to use.
WikiPedia.org
Politicopia.com
WikTionary.org
SocialText.com
Wikia.com
Psychology.Wikia.com
WikiMatrix.org
There are more powerful wikis in the technical sense which are open source and allow modification and different hosting options, but ease of use was considered paramount for this 'population' ;-/
NoVAPeers.PBWiki.com is a baby wiki...
Your contributions of content will help it grow...
And like babies, it might need to be fed as well ;-/
The diapers (required on some of the worst amongst the >275 pages) are another matter ;-/
Example NoVAPeer pages
Some of the more developed (and/or technically interesting) pages in this wiki include:
New Point-and-Click WYSIWYG pages
Very Experimental Chat
Page Statistics
with page views on a lot of the newer pages and recently edited pages
Research
About PeerConf1
Learning more about state education for peers and the glass ceiling on educationing consumers (Bachelor's maximum degree for DRS funding, etc but average education + cost of living in the area is much higher...)
Peer Program Chart & Peer-Program-Chart-Page2
provide a way of looking at missing components of peer run programs in the area, while Agape may not be technically Consumer Run, but largely church & family though influenced...
Pages
AcceptableUsePolicy
Calendar
Recovery Jobs
Older Pages
Interactive Website
wiki training
menu structure
email
Forum
accessibility checks
browser experiences
See also
Tags
for some scoring of the better / worse pages needing updating, techniques used, etc
JerrySpeak Writing Examples ;-/
Trip Reports
About PeerConf1
Herding Turtles report
Our Journey Experiences
Conference photography, How NOT to Do It
Policy
AcceptableUsePolicy
FrontPageDiscussion
BFLHOpeningGroupPhotoBehindTheScenes
CWCStaffMeeting
CWCResignationLetter
DearSideBarEtAl
Artwork
ArtWork
CWC Pictures
Page History
20070425 Jerry Fix typos/ misspelling? Adding some of the better writing as content? categorizing some of the volume of stuff up here...
20061222 Jerry adding some page structure
20061213 Jerry
- Adding newer pages, list is not complete but give an idea of some of the better pages here, while many pages are definitions that need to be combined in to Glossary with a linking mechanism...
20060925 Jerry Short page referring to other pages for SideBar use
Page Statistics
Page Views: 
since 20070129
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