Everybody has a personal wiki in their head. Their own definitions of what they believe and the unique relationships among the things they believe. Somehow what each person believes is related to what others believe, at least at some level. How high up any personal belief has to go to find a common parent belief shared with another person and how many people share that same belief at that level is a statistical quantitative and relatively qualitative measure of value.
Some beliefs are bat-shit crazy alternative realities. At some higher level in a rational world that admits to irrational things there has to be some rational meeting of minds. Those that can't connect to any other human at a conscious level are by definition "beyond the pale" existing in a world of their own. Institutionalized if they are harmful, or out of mercy, because they are human but could not otherwise exist outside of institutional care.
Excluding the institutionalized, there is a meeting of the minds someplace in the structure of higher level thought, if you go far enough. Some just refuse to go that far or simply say the earth is flat and that is all there is to say on the matter.
Wikipedia is an open source collective definition, explanation and thought structure relationship of conceptual things. It is a living document subject to change and expansion, refinement, improvement. In a graphic depiction it is an animated PacMan, gobbling up and giving a home to more concepts as they emerge as extensions built on older defined concepts as well as refining existing concepts in view of new revised clearer perception of them. It is premised on the fact that old Parent Concept ideas can change as we expand them to lower level new ideas. Not often, but when the real world of "child" new ideas emerge, sometimes they have to be recognized as being owned by different "parents". It is not so much that the Owning Parent Concept has to be changed. It still has its own children. What changes is assigning the child to a different Owning Parent Concept.
Parents that love their own children find it hard to acknowledge the fact that they share the child with a parent having logical relationship to the child equal to their own. They are co-equal in sharing the child. If there is conflict in the sharing there is a higher level parent/child relationship that they are both subject to and it may resolve any conflict in who has what sharing characteristics.
I am parent to my own children thoughts. They are shared in general with Wikipedia. The common parent of thought through which I can relate to most everyone else in the country and their thinking.....at some level. Meshing my thoughts with Wikipedia general conceptual thought through a personal wiki when my idea concept is not covered by Wikipedia is my Personal Wiki.
My Personal Wiki thoughts tell me that at a higher conceptual level in Wikipedia the concept of Money must be elevated above a sharing of two distinct exclusive parent characteristics of debit and credit to recognized a higher level parent of Money characteristics that these two objects called debit and credit both share.
While that is the purpose statement of the Personal Wiki I am creating, I have not yet endowed that wiki with a defined population of descriptive contents composed of my unique thoughts. Those unique thoughts exist in what I have been writing in this blog.
As I continue to blog I will also develop my Personal Wiki which already has a private Google site that I will eventually make public in association with this blog.
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