User:Nils peterson

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My e[Portfolio] provides context and contact information. This document is my reflective portfolio from my [Wikipedia Transect].

the meaning of the message is the change that it makes

a portfolio in Wikipedia should be constructed from a compliation of my contributions, and and analysis of what happened to them following my efforts.

for example

• my contribtion to X was reverted immediately -- the meaning of my message, in terms of the change that persisted, is zero
• my text hangs around a long time, but nobody does much with it, the meaning of the change I added was small, it had no ripple effect
• my contribution sparks other discussion and contributions and pages grow and change, the meaning is large

I'm thinking about this in another way, in Feb 2005, Washington State University did not have a wiki. I led the experiment to put one up (FlexWiki), and once staff were using it, we made a decision to replace it with MediaWiki and make it a general offering for teaching and learning (launched Aug 22 05). The message was something about the importance of collaborative cooperative community resources. That change continues to unfold.