At 09:12 AM 17/04/2005, Chris Barker wrote:
>What does "wiki" mean Jez? I failed to ask when Roger Wesson mentioned
>it last time.
Chris:
A "wiki," roughly speaking, is a website powered by software which allows
virtually anyone to modify or create the site's content. It's ideal for
distributed contributors to a single project, say, an online "book." For
an example of a sophisticated, wildly successful (and HUGE) wiki, go to
Wikipedia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
to get a taste of what a wiki is capable of. Of course, were we to
re-start the wiki project for the Olympus "book," I'm assuming it would be
much more modest... ;-)
To read about the wiki software directly, go to:
http://www.wiki.org/
It follows logically, of course, that virtually anyone with a website
(hosted by someone else or on your own hardware) can start a wiki about
anything, as long as the website you have access to allows you to
install/configure the open-source wiki software.
Garth
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