Tony said something on the thread that Thomas started to share his TW on
the subject of problem solving: "its molding clay for the mind"[1]. I think
these type of user are the ones Birthe identifies as the "many that we know
nothing about."
Looking back into the history of of TiddlyWiki there have been some serious
and high profile computer scientists such as Joe Armstrong. In his talkwith
Jeremy "Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang" [3] he starts by talking
about Ted Nelson a pioneer of hypertext which Jeremy picks up on later in
the talk.
Steve Schneider has used TW to teach hyper-textual and interactive writing.
DesignWriteStudio [4] is a freely available resource built using a
TiddlyWiki to help explore hyper-text and interactive texts. An early
example of his work using TiddlyWiki is "Companion to Web Campaigning Kirsten
A. Foot & Steven M. Schneider MIT Press, 2006" [5]. There is a paper on
TiddlyWiki being used as an interactive note pad to help teach science. [6]
Joe Armstrong talks about "all in oneness" and from reading his GitHub
hosted TW he likes the fact that TW is a Quine ("a curiosity of computer
science", says Jeremy in the talk), putting it at the top of list [7].
I imagine that "those who we know nothing about" may include those who have
come to TW with previous interests in the fundamentals of hypertext
writing, computer science and research in general like Joe and Steve.
There's a long list of professional / expert developers with a passion for
open source development. Eric Schulman is without doubt the longest
standing example here. The developers coming and going over the years tend
not to be those following the to the latest fads and trends, perhaps
because TW is not a technology which lends itself to commercialisation in
the same way as being a master of a particularly in demand framework. I
think many developers don't get TW, but those who do seem to be those with
a deep understanding and application of the elegance of design.
There is at least three doctors: Saq, Rizwan, Abraham. A missionary (Dave
Gifford) and a Mohhmaed chemical engineer. These people have become highly
proficient TW developers. Saq talks about learning to code using TiddlyWiki
in the recent Hangout [8]. There are some more hangouts planned --
currently on hold (get well soon Jeremy!) -- but they are something
TiddlyWiki fan like myself are quite excited about.
I think the best way of finding out about the users of TW is probably to
start using TW and explore the eco-system. Because TW is an off line
technology without data collection by design, I think traditional methods
of analysis might not work so well. The community is small enough to get to
know regular contributors and the issues they try to solve.
Alex
[1] http://thomasteepe-archiv.de/
[2]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/tiddlywiki/tTUKcHOObE0/VsWxm65eBgAJ
[3]
https://www.softwaretalks.io/v/6705/joe-armstrong-and-jeremy-ruston-intertwingling-the-tiddlywiki-with-erlang-code-mesh-ldn-18
[4] http://designwritestudio.com/
[5]
https://web.archive.org/web/20061103082226/http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/0262062585/WebCampaigningDigitalSupplement.html#%5B%5BWelcome%20to%20the%20Web%20Campaigning%20Digital%20Supplement%5D%5D
[6]
http://people.sunyit.edu/~krieseg/IDT590/Scrapbook/data/20111205115236/4-ithet-2006.pdf
[7] https://joearms.github.io/#Index
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvnqgfvohfM
On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 19:13:05 UTC+1, Birthe C wrote:
>
> How would we know? Maybe the people here guess some numbers, but in
> reality TiddlyWiki is used by many that we know nothing about.
>
>
> Birthe
>
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