Sandbox Wiki

This was an interesting activity. I expected the sandbox to be more organized and less chaotic, but then, it is a playspace, and there are a ton of beginners (including myself) poking around in there, so no big deal.

I think that I'm so unused to communal webpages that I tended to use it more like a message board than a website editor. I wanted to sign my additions (and did) because you can't tell who added what, and it felt strange and wrong to edit someone else's webpage. I know this isn't an uncommon feeling - after all, as the last activity said, we're very picky about our personal space! I kept thinking...what if I change something that the original person doesn't like? How will anyone know which are my contributions and which were already there? Maybe if I could get used to and start to enjoy the idea of anonymously adding content, I could get into it more. Actually, I think that's pretty much required in order to use wikis a lot - that's the whole point! Maybe I'm too much of a control freak for the concept not to make me twitch a little bit around the eye.

In any case, I thought it was fairly easy to use, but as someone who actually knows a bit of html, I found it annoying that I couldn't use my coding but had to rely on their WYSIWYG buttons. Since it's a bulletin board, it also uses that odd alternate html with brackets instead of carats (carrots? carets?), which may or may not be called CSS? I'm not sure. I don't really know anything but basic html, and I definitely don't know CSS. But I added my contributions nonetheless. I edited the blog page, the What I Am Reading page, and the Rather Be Knitting page.

Kinda fun, not too difficult.