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A good introduction to wiki
This page probably gives the quickest introduction to it all::
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.
Wikit
29 Sep 2005 - Which software powers this wiki?
List of all wikis on the Internet
For a few links to Wiki stuff, look at:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb The Wiki Wide Web http://markhobley.yi.org/wiki/howto.html How To Use Wiki
A list of implementations of Wiki webs, including such important ones as MoinMoin and ZWiki, is at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiClones .
For a very very complete list of wiki engines available for download in all sorts of programming languages, click here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines . We are talking here of internet and personal wikis.
For a list of personal wikis written in all programming languages, click here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PersonalWiki .
Other Wikis include:
http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia
Wiki software for Linux:
Books on Wiki
CL authored an introduction to Wikis [L1 ] in 2001 and recommends the reader comments on the Amazon page [L2 ] on The Wiki Way for insight on, well, "The Wiki Way".
One Wiki book (dead link!) [L3 ] is currently available(?, because of the dead link). It's a good one. [Explain the instances exemplified; attention (not) given Tcl; online (un)availability.]
I wonder what book that was. I found The Wiki Way, by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham - http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product?ISBN=020171499X , and since it is written by Ward, I suspect it might have been the book previously mentioned. This is a good example of why one should mention, here on the wiki, book titles and authors along with URLs - the URLs will change...
A Wiki book on Tcl: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming :
The Sparrow and the Slashdot projects
There is an internal project at Xerox Parc called "Sparrow" [L4 ], which adds a fascinating new dimension to Wiki, by allowing users to edit portions of a standard HTML page:
SlashDot has had a similar concept for some time with Everything [L5 ], but implemented as a sort of learning network, with the "strength" of links dependent on how often [L6 ] they're traversed.
The four meanings of Wiki
"Wiki" can be understood in at least four senses:
The Tcl article on Wikipedia
Wikipedia [L7 ] is an ambitious attempt to collect much of the world's wisdom in a Wiki. RS has added 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...)
rdt Great work (as usuall), however; Under 'Symbols with a special meaning', I would have said: '# comment (only as the first word of a command)'.
Plato Notes
The Wiki culture and practice reminds me of Plato Notes files [L8 ], although the mechanisms are much different. escargo 11/11/2002
See also TickleWiki.
Wiki for managers
Incidentally, if you need help explaining Wiki to someone on the management side, "Wiki goes to work" [L9 ] and its precursors might serve you.
TCL/TK wikis
Several independent Wikis are likely to interest readers of this one, including the