Re: FN-FORUM: Wiki

date posted 10th August 2004 20:15

At 20:52 on Tuesday, 10 Aug 2004, Nic Smith wrote:

>
>> I know there's a FAQ hanging about somewhere, but what about moving it
> to a Wiki?
>
> Without trying to sound dumb but what is a Wiki? Last time I heard Wiki
> being mentioned was from that small annoying robot on Buck Rogers in the
> 25th Century who went around saying Wiki Wiki!
>
> Nic
>

A wiki is a user editable web site. - anyone can edit any page.

makes a great repository for shared/common knowledge. (they can be
difficult to navigate for newbies though)

if looked after by a community of concerned users they become very
effective.

(like the CSS-d wiki : http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FrontPage)

however on the Maccaws Wiki :
(http://www.maccaws.org/wiki/index.php?page=FrontPage) I'm fighting a
running battle with spammers. which kind of makes it less attractive.

If enough people were interested and agreed to help keep it tidy I'd be
happy to set and maintain a freelancers wiki (how about allmymates.com ? )

The Tavi Wiki seems to be the most standards compliant PHP/mySQL based one.

Anyone interested?