This page probably gives the quickest introduction to it all: * http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ElementsOfWikiEssence Wiki Wiki is the Hawai'ian term for "quick". [Ward Cunningham] is the one who coined the phrase of "Wiki Wiki Webs". The idea is that you edit pages in normal text mode, with a simple way to add new pages and hyperlinks between them. It all works via CGI on a web server, so anyone with a web browser anywhere in the world can browse, follow links, and edit these pages. ---- '''I am thinking of deciding whether the try out this wiki or the public ones? For example, can you name the various differences between this wiki and the very popular http://c2.com , or http://wikiserver.has.it or http://lambda.vze.com ?''' ---- For a few links to Wiki stuff, look at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb A list of implementations of Wiki webs is at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiClones. However, [CL] has trouble with these resources, unable, for example, to find MoinMoin [http://moin.sourceforge.net/] or ZWiki [http://www.zwiki.org/] there. There is an internal project at Xerox Parc called "Sparrow" [http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/sparrow/], which adds a fascinating new dimension to Wiki, by allowing users to edit portions of a standard HTML page: * http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/sparrow/doc/www7/ SlashDot has had a similar concept for some time with Everything [http://everything.slashdot.org/], but implemented as a sort of learning network, with the "strength" of links dependent on how often [http://www.hakdata.de/] they're traversed. One Wiki book ''(dead link!)'' [http://www.awlonline.com/product/0,2627,020171499X,00.html] is currently available(?, because of the dead link). It's a good one. [[Explain the instances exemplified; attention (not) given Tcl; online (un)availability.] ---- "Wiki" can be understood in at least four senses: * The architecture and user interface Ward first defined. Once you've learned this as a Wiki user, you know it (like riding a bicycle) and you can easily accomodate minor extant variations. * A particular application OR toolkit which implements one or several Wikis. The first Wiki was implemented in Perl. There are now multiple Perl Wikis, a Python Wiki, a Tcl Wiki, and so on. * An instance of a collaborative document collection implemented with a particular Wiki toolkit. The Wiki you're reading now is implemented in Tcl, and also happens to have Tcl as its subject. * ... ---- '''Wikipedia''' is the ambitious attempt to collect much of world's wisdom in a Wiki. [RS] has added some needed details from the Tcl scene to http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Tcl - check it out, make it better. (Of course, ''this'' is still the real Wiki, but some visibility in a highly-frequented general Wiki can't hurt either...) ---- The Wiki culture and practice reminds me of Plato Notes files [http://www.thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm], although the mechanisms are much different. ''[escargo] 11/11/2002'' ---- See also [TickleWiki]. ---- [Category Internet]