Wikis you know?
Author: techupdate.zdnet.com
Friday, July 9 2004 10:18 AM
Perhaps you have heard about Weblogs, but wikis also have a chance to enter your field of vision. They are both rapid development of the so-called social software (social software) example - and other such procedures to encourage good operation, as well as the connection to the community. Online blogs can post their personal views and interests, wikis are relatively concentrated in the community through a professional site preparation and to achieve regular editorial - these people not only can paste material on the web site also can be arbitrarily edit.
Recently, Wikis seize the company's internal team mentality. Through the use of wikis do not have to make them endure endless back and forth e-mail transmission, or the face of the complex and expensive components, such as: IBM's Lotus Notes, thus speeding up the cooperation between them. Soon wikis may come to your side of the computer.
What is WIKI? For such a relatively vague technology, or have a helpful guide. Note that this will only contain the public on the part of wikis for internal corporate network almost always hidden behind a firewall. However, these examples will be open to you explain this already exist in 10 technical Why would take off.
First of all, this interesting what is the meaning of the name? Well, if you went to the Honolulu Airport, you will know that in between the two points is the fastest way to travel on a called Wiki-Wiki shuttle buses, in Hawaii, the word is "quick".
Oregon programmer Ward Cunningham for his invention of this particular Web site use this name because he thinks this is a very fast to create and share thinking of the method. He was initially created site is still the biggest and most professional software development of the test (nature of software development) of the site. Although through Google search on his name can easily find him, but he will tell you it not listed here because he does not want anyone to make a mess inside, as it will be an extremely unpleasant. If you really want to visit, please be handled with care.
Arbitrary entertainment. Only a first letter from the acronym NPOV (neutral point of view) to describe it, translated into the neutral point of view. Because wikis depend on cooperation to avoid heated arguments, from e-mail to the forum and blogs point of view, these arguments will feel very distressed people, many wikis implied or explicit encourage people to contribute material, most people will be so Goals can be found.
With a not so out of courtesy, in addition to the Wikipedia wikis outside, no better place to begin roaming the wiki, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, has 280,000 articles in English and 49 other languages written in 38 more than 10,000 articles. And the Encyclopedia of all the same, only here (virtual) pages is a very interesting thing. Wikipedia page features articles, and provides a random page button, so you can feel free to browse.
Many articles are short, there is no useful, and sometimes just a placeholder, and some may contain a number of incorrect things. But you would be surprised that there are so many good things, regardless of whether they are visits West African countries, the economic situation in Guinea-Bissau or pinhole cameras on the performance and structure, have here.
Website is about 1994. To be able to contribute this Encyclopedia of people, the most surprising thing is his information is not stagnant. Home on the regional news and current events related to contain considerable depth articles, for example, the new Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's biography. You can click of a button to display the page by the change, and also can view May 19 by pasting the content, there are many more people in the content or rectification work, they tried to make all the content on the page as much as possible the correct and improved.
So far, you may think you can write himself a wikipedia article. You can do so - but first of all, it is best to facilitate a "sand box" to the test to see how it is working. Start do it, try it. You will not hurt anything. When you prepare for a theme write their own pages - and have so far found no other one started on the theme - click here.
Wikipedia such as the Internet site there are still many outstanding, it is only hundreds of websites one. In some ways, wikis appear in the arena of web page is about in 1994, when the browser has just come out in the public domain, the web site is very simple, and the less attractive the interest of the rule. Therefore, numerous wikis survive, like the eMac, like the text-editing software. You also may be interested in wikis community, even if most of them have no access into your company in this list sites using the popular Twiki software.
WIKI family. Wiki guide for many of the world's View, are very good. The most popular one is Meatball Wiki, producers and Flaneur wiki, it is a community moral standards, as well as skills on the online community of philosophical discussion. From there, you can quickly Skip to the Tourbus wiki, Tourbus wiki including the classification of open wikis List.
Whether to establish their own wiki preparations? Chirk (Geek) warned: If you want to achieve the maximum, and download open-source software, such as Twiki, you had better have a skilled. However, we the remaining majority of the people have a better choice in: Virtual Console wiki service, the family called wiki (wiki farms). Willing to pay a lot of money for the company to build a very traditional service, a good start is to encourage Socialtext.
Signed can get. If you want to more easily test wiki areas, EditMe, Virtual Console service charge 4.95 dollars per month, TeamFlux each quarter is the cost of 20 dollars, and there are other types.
But there are many other types are free, such as testing a dysfunction but the service is available. They include Open Wiki, Seed Wiki and Swiki.net. You only need signatures can be. Very simple. So when someone in the cocktail, boasting that their blog, you will be better than others available, and can make as much as you promote the Wiki. (Editor: Liu's)
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