I’ve just added a section to this website with the archive of my “Law Talk” project from the period 2008-12 when I was studying in the Open University. This was originally a media-wiki site which made use of the social extension to try to “gamify” the experience of practising English for law online.

In those days, this project was ahead of its time, and it looks as though it could be repeated, as the social extension tools are available for recent versions of mediawiki. A lot of the old links to materials will be broken. I’ve never been sure about the idea of the web as a permanent record, and certainly with my own websites, I’ve constantly deleted and edited stuff without saving the original versions for posterity.

Of course, tiddlywiki has moved on a lot since I made the archive. The archive is an example of tiddlywiki classic, which was completely re-written at version 5 to make the amazing thing of beauty we know today. It’s a really great tool for thinking and a convenient way of creating a single static document from a mediawiki installation.

Some of the pages in the archive make useful collections of “tiddlers” such as the one on distinctions and the listening exercises. There’s also a lot devoted to textbooks aimed at the old Cambridge ESP examination ILEC, which was discontinued in 2016.