**Wikit** 29 Sep 2005 - Which software powers this wiki? [LV] 2007 Aug 30 - See [Wikit], and especially [WubWikit] ---- **A good introduction to wiki** 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. ---- **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: http://www.didiwiki.org/ There are also lots of wikis on intranets that you can't see. ----- **Books on Wiki** [CL] authored an introduction to Wikis [http://www.swexpert.com/CC/SE.C12.MAR.01.pdf] in 2001 and recommends the reader comments on the Amazon page [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/020171499X/103-5401574-1487010?v=glance] on '''The Wiki Way''' for insight on, well, "The Wiki Way". A number of books have been written on the idea of Wikis: * Wiki: Web Collaboration * The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web * Wikis For Dummies * Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration * Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms * Building the knowledge management network * Collaboration and wikis and blogs, Oh My! * The complete idiot's guide to knowledge Management and so on. A Wiki book on Tcl: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl ----- **The Sparrow and the Slashdot projects** 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/ ''[escargo] 30 Aug 2007 '' - The Xerox links are now broken, but http://www.parc.com/contact/xerox/sparrow/ now says, "Xerox has integrated Sparrow Web into their DocuShare CPX product and is no longer selling it as a stand alone product." [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 they're traversed. ''[escargo] 30 Aug 2007 '' - It appears the link for Everything no longer works. Using the Internet Archive Wayback machine, the last version they had recorded was in October, 2003. That forwarded me to http://everything2.com/ that claims to be Everything@Everything2.com. ---- **The four meanings of Wiki** "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 accommodate 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. * ... ---- **The Tcl article on Wikipedia** '''Wikipedia''' [http://wikipedia.org] 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 usual), however; Under 'Symbols with a special meaning', I would have said: '# comment (only as the first word of a command)'. [LV] I would presume there is a way for you to make that comment there, right? ---- **Plato Notes** 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]. ---- **Wiki for managers** Incidentally, if you need help explaining Wiki to someone on the management side, "Wiki goes to work" [http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/11/12/46OPconnection_1.html] and its precursors might serve you. ---- **TCL/TK wikis** Several independent Wikis are likely to interest readers of this one, including the * French-language Tcl-focused Wiki [http://www.larochelle-innovation.com/tcltk] * [Agile] [Process Control] Wiki [http://www.engcorp.com/acf/] * [Tkinter] Wiki [http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/] * schtonk [http://muikku.katiska.org/schtonk/] is an application wiki done in TCL * ... ---- [LV] Early in my life I fell in love with Ted Nelson's Xanadu writings - see http://xanadu.com/ for his official web site. In the early days of the wiki, I thought of this as being conceptually similar. I don't know whether I still think that... ---- !!!!!! %| [Category Internet] |% !!!!!!