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08 Jul 2005 - 22:35

Wiki definition

About Wikis*

Wikis are web sites that are freely editable by anyone who visits them. This technology was invented by Ward Cunningham in 1995 (Wiki Wiki Web). The idea behind such sites is to create truly communal repositories of knowledge where the contribution cost is so low as to allow novice and expert users alike to act as active members of a community. This “open editing” paradigm is a powerful and, sometimes, problematic venue for community collaboration as it invites both valuable contributions and flat out vandalism.


*"Wiki-wiki" means "quick" in the Hawaiian language

inside joke

Carolyn will be amused to learn that Ed wants to know whether he can create a bliki for his seminar.



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Is there bliki software out there? he asked.

-- CatherineJohnson - 08 Jul 2005


As far as I know, ours is the only really active bliki. I only know of one other guy who runs a blog from twiki, and it's a very quiet place (I don't think he posts much). I took some of his open-source software to construct this site. I keep meaning to invite him to come see how I've used it; this site is actually constructed in a different way than his.

Short answer for Ed is: No, there isn't, but he can use our setup here if he wants to hack it.

-- CarolynJohnston - 09 Jul 2005


Wow.

We ARE cutting edge.

How does one 'hack' a site?

Do you just copy the source code?

Or.....what?

-- CatherineJohnson - 09 Jul 2005

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