We've talked about the Neighborhood, but have not gone into it in great detail. Here we talk about what the Neighborhood is, and how to list all pages in it.
A Neighborhood is what programmers sometimes call a "context". Contexts help code act in appropriate ways. As a simple example, your search context on your computer might be the folder you're in, in which case the results of that search will only show you results from that folder.
Contexts can be more subtle. You can imagine a search context of "Recent Folders" which searches all the folders you've used recently, and skips the ones you haven't.
Your neighborhood is a context. It consists of all the sites involved with the material you have seen in the current session.
This includes sites whose material you have looked at, sites in the fork history of material you have looked at, and sites that have been explicitly called out by Reference, such as the one below:
An automatic chalkboard eraser is an example of technology that creates efficiency without impacting learning.
The neighborhood context is used in federated wiki for search, recent changes, and page suggestions when a page is not found.
What the search box looks like. It's right of the login.
To see all pages in your neighborhood, click into the search box below, and just hit enter.
If you are following the orientation, you will likely see pages from your site, but also from the orientation site and the history of online learning site referenced above.
The following video is from the first FedWiki Happening, but it does show how neighborhoods are built, and why they are important:
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