Sunday, June 05, 2005
Techtalker - Let's Wiki
Let's Wiki
This is a project that involves 16,000 contributors and close of five hundred thousand articles. In multiple languages and over a million entries already, and it is interactive. Move over blogs, wiki is here.
Wikipedians have now threatening to turn the world upside down, at least for sourcing their knowledge. People are already preferring the wikipedia enclyclopeadia rather than traditional sources of knowledge. This amazing development is courtesy a style of program called Wiki software that allows people to author and edit web documents. An entire online encyclopedia has been created by people like you and me.
For a feel try the www.wikipedia.org. This is an encyclopedia that anyone and everyone can edit. If you consider yourself as an expert on any subject, go to the wiki site, and write whatever you want. This is published to the net immediately and is ready for people to read and see. Another person could edit your piece or make alterations. Off course there are controls, like some wikis may ban your entry if you abuse your system. Incorrect entries are notified by alert wiki users and can be modified by them as well. If you persist with your machinations, IP bans can be resorted to.
But so popular is the concept that wikis are sprouting every day. Apart from the wiki encyclopedia, web hosts now offer wiki software for you to install on your server. For creating an online resource where you want others to contribute, just install the wiki software and let people write on your website.
Wikis move ahead of blogs in many manners, they manage to create communities. If this article is published on a wiki site, you could edit it, add to it and even mutilate it. Unlike a blog, where the only luxury you are allowed is to post your comments on this article. What has made wiki a net phenomenon is that both the student and the teacher now work as equals. Some wikis are amusing, others are
provocative. If a mainstream encyclopedia does not have enough content about your area of interest, just because it is too obscure, wikis welcome you with open arms.
Wiki has now moved into new areas. Wikinews is already there. So is wiktionary, a combination of your dictionary and theasarus. There are wikibooks, wikiquotes.
Incidently wiki comes from a Hawain term which means `quick' and `superfast'. So what stops you. Let's wiki right away.
you can contact me at techtalker at gmail dot com.
This is a project that involves 16,000 contributors and close of five hundred thousand articles. In multiple languages and over a million entries already, and it is interactive. Move over blogs, wiki is here.
Wikipedians have now threatening to turn the world upside down, at least for sourcing their knowledge. People are already preferring the wikipedia enclyclopeadia rather than traditional sources of knowledge. This amazing development is courtesy a style of program called Wiki software that allows people to author and edit web documents. An entire online encyclopedia has been created by people like you and me.
For a feel try the www.wikipedia.org. This is an encyclopedia that anyone and everyone can edit. If you consider yourself as an expert on any subject, go to the wiki site, and write whatever you want. This is published to the net immediately and is ready for people to read and see. Another person could edit your piece or make alterations. Off course there are controls, like some wikis may ban your entry if you abuse your system. Incorrect entries are notified by alert wiki users and can be modified by them as well. If you persist with your machinations, IP bans can be resorted to.
But so popular is the concept that wikis are sprouting every day. Apart from the wiki encyclopedia, web hosts now offer wiki software for you to install on your server. For creating an online resource where you want others to contribute, just install the wiki software and let people write on your website.
Wikis move ahead of blogs in many manners, they manage to create communities. If this article is published on a wiki site, you could edit it, add to it and even mutilate it. Unlike a blog, where the only luxury you are allowed is to post your comments on this article. What has made wiki a net phenomenon is that both the student and the teacher now work as equals. Some wikis are amusing, others are
provocative. If a mainstream encyclopedia does not have enough content about your area of interest, just because it is too obscure, wikis welcome you with open arms.
Wiki has now moved into new areas. Wikinews is already there. So is wiktionary, a combination of your dictionary and theasarus. There are wikibooks, wikiquotes.
Incidently wiki comes from a Hawain term which means `quick' and `superfast'. So what stops you. Let's wiki right away.
you can contact me at techtalker at gmail dot com.
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