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  Installing a Wiki on Your iBook
Subject:   So Wiki is . . . ?
Date:   2003-06-08 02:11:25
From:   anonymous2
Great linux-like article that in no way informs the user what Wiki is. I suppose that anyone daring to follow the described installation procedure will a) know what Wiki is all about and b) will thus have it installed - or gave up trying. I found it absolutely horrible that this installation procedure doesn't even come documented. This article should be on a linux site. Maybe not, I am missing the key phrases "this is better" " this is much faster" " you should always use this" etc.
I love this site, but when I read this article I really thought "What is this?" - you can figure out the emphasize.
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  • So Wiki is . . . ?
    2003-06-10 08:08:16  salamon [Reply | View]

    While it is true that a brief description of the whole WIki concept would have been a good idea, a search for 'wiki' on Google brought up 'about 2,500,000' results. A bit intimidating, but the very first link on the very first page had a brief blurb about what a Wiki is, along with links to more detailed descriptions.
    So as not to stress anyone out, here is my one line definition of a Wiki:
    A web editable, dynamic web site, with a unique syntax for entering simple markup, providing a tool for community or knowledge building.
    • So Wiki is . . . ?
      2003-06-17 13:28:32  matt_hunt [Reply | View]

      It really didn't occur to me that there were people that didn't know what a Wiki was. I've been a bit too close to the web industry to miss it. Recently, however, in talking to friends working even in other parts of the computing industry I have found that it's not as widely known as I had imagined.

      This being the case, might I recommend the original WikiWikiWeb as a good place to start learning about Wiki:

      http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb
  • So Wiki is . . . ?
    2004-03-12 12:10:01  sans [Reply | View]

    I disagree...this article hits the nail on the head for me. I switched to development on the mac because of it's ability to easily run apache, mysql, and php in a unix-like environment. I'd like more like this...just enough detail to get moving and figure it out. Thanks for the article!