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A wiki is an open documentation system best thought of as a fast collaborative knowledgebase engine.
- About These Essays, by Bob Frankston, my reply has some wiki-related thoughts.
- A wiki has been a part of my content management system history for some time.
- Switched to my own Compiled Website.
- I used MediaWiki.
- I had used a couple of wikis in the past.
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Before a wiki I used hand-edited HTML files.
Introduction ∞
Like a weblog, a wiki allows one to take a snapshot of one's opinion, but a wiki can also organize them and keep them available for updating.
A weblog presents itself as a set of items in date-order. A wiki does this through it's page revision history.
People who randomly surf and end up staying will usually have a contribution to make if it's easy to do so.
Pages no longer develop significant cruft. If a person is interested enough to read a page, then editing it isn't a huge leap. Maintenance becomes a part of use.
The largest example of a wiki is the Wikipedia, the world's largest collaboratively-edited encyclopeia.
Wiki engines ∞
- /tag/wiki-software
- static compiled website engines
- Fossil has a wiki within it.
- Slash's wiki plugin
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- This is particularly intriguing. I disagree with a number of their fundamental choices (not using /endtag, some markup choices, etc) but they're pretty solid.
- Ruby wikis
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https://www.suckless.org/wiki/ [ 1 ] was http://www.suckless.org/wiki/tools/
- Neato, a hacker's simple wiki.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20160423072922/http://www.moria.de:80/~michael/ww/
- A simple wiki written in C.
Lua Wikis ∞
(Lua)
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- Tested 2009-04-17 - (version not recorded) on (distribution not recorded)
- No page access control.
- Forced to preview before saving. Fail.
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- As of 2009-04-17, last released 2004-06-07. Fail.
Python Wikis ∞
(Python)
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- 2009-04-17 - Very pretty. Not organized in the way I would prefer. Has no ability to link between notebooks, which is ultra-fail. Looks like it has mangled URLs, so it's anti-SEO.
- 2009-04-17 - Well.. as usual c2's WikiEngines page is 5 years out of date. Its Python wiki projects are all shite.
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- 2009-04-17 - Why bother with a wiki that's been spammed to death?
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- 2009-04-17 - last updated 2006-06-28
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cpy - CyberPublishing, pYthon edition
- 2009-04-17 - Lacks a lot of fundamental features, like versioning.
Resources ∞
- Wiki, on Wikipedia
- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wiki_Science
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https://www.fandom.com/ [ 2 ] was http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Wikicities
- Free MediaWiki hosting.
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- Converts HTML to various wiki markup languages.
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http://wiki.c2.com/?WelcomeVisitors [ 3 ] was http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors
- The portland pattern repository wiki. A horribe mess of an old wiki.
Footnotes
Last updated 2021-05-20 at 22:14:53
ported some python wikis from 2009-04-17 research
Ported some Lua 2009-04-17 research.
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