"So you were never in London before?" said Mr. Wemmick to me.

"No," said I.

"I was new here once," said Mr. Wemmick, "Rum to think of it now!"

"You are well acquainted with it now?"

"Why, yes," said Mr. Wemmick. "I know the moves of it."

(Dickens, Great Expectations)

And so it is with any medium, once one has messed with it for a while. I'm gradually discovering the obvious about the wikimedium as I try things out and see how they lie on the page/screen... but I have the feeling (familiar, now that I think of it) that I needed to actually use the medium, and just reading about it wasn't enough. And so it is with all learning, innit?