austraLasia 1530
The conversation has begun - let it continue!
ROME: 17th April 2006 -- The first brave individuals
have found their way into BoscoWiki and begun to add their comments, additional information. This
is a 'conversation' that is to be wholeheartedly encouraged for the
benefit of the Region. It is, after all, a new opportunity - the
opportunity to share ideas and to animate in an easy, region-wide
fashion. The audience is only that of the Salesian Family since
the BoscoWiki address is only known to those who read and receive austraLasia
(and the address is not replicated in the Bosconet version of this
news).
The Salesian community in Darkhan, Mongolia, has
added some additional information to #1528 on new Catholics at Easter,
so you might want to check that out on the austraLasia page of BoscoWiki.
Someone has also asked a question of a technical nature, and another
has offered comment on the news over these last couple of days
including the sudden death of Fr Valentin de Pablo.
A 'resources' page has been added.
Requests come through austraLasia on a daily basis for this or that
resource, and of course you may continue to do that, and these
resources, if in existence, will be indicated, forwarded,
whatever. But here too, a change of mentality offered by wiki
technology can benefit everyone. Your question may be someone
else's question and more to the point, with 1500 very active SDB
members in the Region, as well as several thousand others from other
groups in the Salesian Family, there's a good chance that the answer to
your question will come much more quickly and much more effectively
from someone else, once people are in the habit of regularly checking BoscoWiki for new items - the 'recent changes' or even better, the 'history'
pages will give you any and every item added. But then there's
also the wonderful reality that around the region, these active members
are producing good resources for local use - why not share them?
If you have them in digital form and available for download somewhere,
put the URL (the link) up on BoscoWiki.
Just remember that you need to prefix a web link with http//: as well
as the www. In other words, we need the full link.
One final comment - don't worry too much about
putting something in the wrong place or getting your language
wrong. The beauty of a wiki is that if anyone else thinks it's in
the wrong place they can move it, or if they think your English needs
tidying up, they can tidy it up! Then again, if you want to write in
Vietnamese, or Chinese, do so! Someone will understand you,
though not everyone!
Should a group from the Salesian Family see the
obvious benefits of BoscoWiki
for their 'internal' use, they have two possibilities - one is to add
themselves as a group in the side bar. And rather than just
adding themselves as a page, they can actually add themselves as a
group by clicking the 'edit' sidebar and typing, for example for the
Salesian Cooperators, [[Coops/Coops.Homepage]] which will create a
Cooperators' Group with its own homepage (don't forget to save).
Then if someone goes into the Cooperator's Homepage - to which
something sensibly needs to be added, a word of welcome, etc. - when
they add another page, it refers itself to the Coop homepage
automatically, rather than to the BoscoWiki homepage. The group
can leave it all open for everyone else to hop in and take a look. The
other possibility is that they can close it off to only Cooperators.
That could be done by you yourselves, or you can ask the BoscoWiki
administrator to do that for you, since some may be unsure of how to
achieve that. It's up to you. The possibilities for use are
endless. Over to you.
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