User:Brettz9

Personal wiki page of Brett Zamir. To leave a message, please use my talk page.

Introduction

Hi,

I am the maintainer of Bahai9.com. You can see History of Bahá'í wiki websites (permlink) for more on the history of the project.

As to my personal involvement in creating Bahai9.com, I could go back to my time at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I wanted to write a handbook that might assist future Bahá'í College Clubs in planning activities. I then figured I may as well to try to make it a general template for Bahá'í college clubs.

I submitted my project to our National Spiritual Assembly, but they favored a must slimmer idea of a handbook than I had been working on!

I later felt my work could become an even broader purpose tool by which individual Bahá'ís could contemplate the various departments of life, take into account guidance from the Bahá'í Writings about these areas, and then make plans for study, self-improvement and service.

As wikis first came on the scene, this power of collaboration became fully evident such as in what Wikipedia had been building up (my own first introduction to it was in marveling at how it had its own informative page just about Gestuno, an international auxiliary language attempt for the deaf).

I came to feel that the collaborative nature of wikis could best serve the knowledge part of this project concept (I never implemented a note-taking component by which one could store notes, though one might be able to use a browser add-on or such that allowed saving notes by webpage, integrating this into a web-based calendar and to-do list, etc.). I felt that others could ensure the project could be improved upon and grow into the future.

After investigating and using wikis, I found a site which hosted wikis for people, and I added some content to that site (now defunct), but then Jonah of http://bahai-library.com graciously let me host a wiki on his site, where we had more ownership of the content, and I later transferred that wiki to its own domain here.

Thanks

One important (though not especially difficult) milestone I feel was integrating all of Lights of Guidance across the site. I am indebted to Helen Hornby and to Charles Hornby for permitting use of its contents.

I am also indebted to David Haslip, the founder of http://bahaipedia.org , with whom I have partnered over the years on certain web projects and who is now hosting the server content and handling software upgrades.

And as mentioned, to Jonah Winters, who allowed me not only to host the wiki early on, but also helped incubate my interest in web development in allowing me to try out programs there, and to implement my desire to allow popular Bahá'í Writings pages to inform users of collaborative content where they could learn more about a given book and its content.

Other sites

• For my personal page at bahai-library.com, see https://bahai-library.com/personal_brett_zamir (documents at https://bahai-library.com/author/Brett+Zamir )
• My wiktionary home page (info on Chinese study) is at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Brettz9
• Please visit http://onetongue.com to fill out a form there to indicate your support of a world auxiliary language...and find at least 2 others who are like-minded to do the same!

Some Bahá'í-related content (involves some of my own interpretation)

• /meetings for teaching
• /Youth study meetings (to migrate to meetings for teaching)

Notes to self

• /to-do list
• /test

Older content (outdated but may revisit)

Click here to see my present to-do list (if you'd like to work with me or see some things which I may find time to add at some point to this site). This is intended for wiki to-dos (at this site) and for the Bahá'í Library Online.

Click here to see my personal Bahai9wiki wish list.