My SOS for the Alaska Wikia was carried into the blogstream and found its way to Jimmy Wales. He emailed me to suggest merging the wiki with other similar Wikia projects to make it part of a larger project.

I was nearly as surprised to hear from Jimmy Wales as I would have been to hear from the President after writing about federal education policy. When will politicians ever publish weblogs? I wish George and Frank would listen, and get back to me the next day with an interesting suggestion, too.

I don’t know what will change by making the Alaska wiki a part of a bigger wiki project, but I am ready to try something new. I don’t quite understand how it will help. What I think I need is more Alaskans, and not simply more people. But what do I know about wiki Community?

At any rate, it’s an opportunity for a little adventure, and there’s nothing to be lost. We’ll see what happens.

“The only thing I am really good at is trusting people.” (Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikimedia)

That’s good enough for me.