Past, present and future: Difference between revisions

The JC has been running in one form or another now for nearly fifteen years. It started out as one dude — me — trying to nut out the close out mechanics of the {{isdama}} and then put it somewhere where he wouldn’t lose it.  It has grown a bit but that is still basically the idea.

The open source [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki platform] — the same one [[Wikipedia]] runs on — turned out to be a brilliant way of maintaining and building knowhow. Creating, linking and cross-referencing material in a holistic and [[non-linear]] way is really easy on MediaWiki.  

Being basically a [[Sloth|lazy]] sod — a trait I maintain is a paragon virtue — with a chronically short attention span, this way of working suits me perfectly. You can quickly create articles, save them down, and fix them them later. You can edit while you are on the train, walking the dog, or being driven slowly up the wall by [[middle manager]]s on the weekly regulatory change [[stakeholder]] check-point [[all-hands conference call]]. It is perfect for the frequently interrupted and the chronically wanting of an attention span. Anything you start now you can save down and come back to later. If you never do, it can’t have been that important.  

As a premium subscriber you will help to fund technological improvements the site needs to grow, and to build out its content: better documentation of and a tidy-up to the coding to manage the technical back-end, which should  make the whole thing more consistent. We would like to commission some help to build out premium content, making the site more comprehensive: as a premium subscriber you would benefit from that. We have some far-off, dreamy plans to create a customised offering for in-house teams, but that is a bit further off in the future.