Tools

Wikis

See also pmWiki in particular

From personal use

why integration matters
- 05/06 ~3pm discussion with Paola on modularity
River Of Time you can not step into the same river twice.
general lessons from pmWiki and Wiki should be imported here
:help : the MOST important command ;)
Presentations.Introduction To Wikis
ReadingNotes.Wikipatterns
wiki software I tried
- tiddlywiki
- mediawiki
  - through Wikipedia
- SemanticMediaWiki
- pmwiki
  - here and on several other personal websites
  - AAAI
- dokuwiki
- confluence
- few others for GE40 at UTC
  - cf notes
- "wiki-like" software
  - Google Wave
  - Google Docs through collaborative mode
  - Microsoft Office through shared file (over email or LAN) and revision mode

WikiFest (or "live wiki-ing")

Discovered during (a somewhat self-frustrating) presentation of the wiki during MBE07

Tikizens meet! : Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware - community site meeting between Tiki contributors (that usually only meet online).
- http://tikiwiki.org/Model -> This is what we do
- This is what we use for screensharing: http://tikiwiki.org/live
- freenode/#wiki 16/062010 22:40 with mlaporte
leverage live coding practices described in Programming
I think seeing the result of your work instantly is one of the key aspect of Wikipedia, it's a very short feedback loop

Radical changes invisible to the reader

changing from the default edit page to the edit page was like changing for a new pen
changing from AllRecentChanges to the minimalist and goal oriented entry page is more like changing the private table of content
yet the content itself and the cover didn't change so for the reader it's still the same yet, hopefully, in the long run content will improve thanks to those invisible changes
it's really like the brain
- you do not move content around and shuttle data here and there but with few connections changed you can turn the entire system around
- major changes are not about adding a lot of content but rather about how easily you can re-organize the whole system based on new principles
- quality of your system based on how flexible yet efficient it is
  - how it can handle changes to adapt in order to respond to new constraints
- cf Cognition#WikiBrainMapping
regarding gradual changes see also http://www.ourp.im/Papers/InvisibleToTheEye

Video tutorials

Wiki in general
- Wikis in Plain English by Commoncraft
Wiki modules
- IBM QEDWiki (nice visuals but ending with IBM's logo)

Events

RecentChangesCamp aka RCC or RoCoCo
WikiSym International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Wikimania operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wiki Wednesdays held (mostly) the first Wednesday of each month

References

The duality of knowledge by Paul M. Hildreth and Chris Kimble, Information Research, Vol. 8 No. 1, 2002
- mentioning the "Autopoietic View" discovered earlier through Francisco Varela in Cognition

To explore

Meatball:WikiFractality
- http://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wikidev.cgi?FrontPage
Meatball:WikiPediaIsNotTypical
session Dynamics of Knowledge Creation in Wikis of Power & Knowledge conference, September 2010
Many Eyes Wikified, Visual Communication Lab, IBM Research
startups
- Imindi "world’s first Thought Engine", CrunchBase Profile
- iGlue raises $550K in Series B round to “wikify the web“, TechCrunch May 2010
- FluidDB Aims To Become The Wikipedia Of Databases, TechCrunch May 2010
scientific wikis
- Citizen Science - A wiki encompassing all science experiment in a new form of scientific discourse.
- Tricki brand new Wiki-style site that is intended to develop into a large store of useful mathematical problem-solving techniques.
distributed wikis
- synchronization and merging
  - inspited by CVS/SVN/Programming#SCM?
wikifs file system interface to the wiki data stored in dir (based on Plan 9)

Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.