July 2007
Beginner
336 pages
7h 27m
English
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Chapter 18. Ten Innovative Wikis
Exploring TiddlyWiki, wetpaint, and Central Desktop
</objective> <objective>Sizing up StikiPad, wikiCalc, and WikiTree
</objective> <objective>Getting the scoop on WikiTimeScale and Swicki
</objective> <objective>Discovering Kwiki and FlexWiki
</objective> </feature>The explosion in popularity of wikis has led to a kind of collective breeding experiment. Every genetic variation of a wiki is being tested. Here’s one such fruit fly-like formula: Wikipedia + television = “The TV IV, the online compendium of television knowledge that anyone can edit” (http://tviv.org). Dozens of other such oddities exist. Many other variants involve the cross breeding of wikis with technologies or programming languages, such as the Microsoft Robotics Studio wiki (http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MSRoboticsStudio).
In this chapter, we introduce you to ten notable wikis. Some represent worthy wikis that we just didn’t have time or space to cover elsewhere in the book. Others are oddities that are fascinating in their own right. They have been chosen either because they offer a technological innovation or because they present wiki functionality in a pleasing combination that is worthy of attention.
TiddlyWiki
www.tiddlywiki.com The wikis that grab the most attention today are the big, public ones used by millions of people. It’s easy to forget that wikis evolved from one man’s desire to create a killer, personal ...
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