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A wiki is an open documentation system best thought of as a fast collaborative knowledgebase engine.

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• 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.

• Before a wiki I used hand-edited HTML files.

Introduction ∞

• What is a wiki?
• Seeing the true value of the wiki

• Wiki pros and cons

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

• Confluence

  • 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

• https://www.suckless.org/wiki/ ^[ 1 ] was http://www.suckless.org/wiki/tools/

  • Neato, a hacker's simple wiki.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20160423072922/http://www.moria.de:80/~michael/ww/

  • A simple wiki written in C.

Lua Wikis ∞

(Lua)

• nanoki

  • Tested 2009-04-17 - (version not recorded) on (distribution not recorded)
  • No page access control.
  • Forced to preview before saving. Fail.

• luawiki

  • As of 2009-04-17, last released 2004-06-07. Fail.

Python Wikis ∞

(Python)

• Luminotes

  • 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 as usual c2's WikiEngines page is 5 years out of date.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.

• Diamond Wiki

  • 2009-04-17 - Why bother with a wiki that's been spammed to death?

• Cloud Wiki

  • 2009-04-17 - last updated 2006-06-28

• 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

• https://www.fandom.com/ ^[ 2 ] was http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Wikicities

  • Free MediaWiki hosting.

• WikiConverter

  • Converts HTML to various wiki markup languages.

• 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.

Last updated 2021-05-20 at 22:14:53