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This is the access page to a small set of information pages that constitute an initial experiment in seeing how GENUKI could be implemented in a wiki.

Currently there are just three pages in this set, based on the Devon county page, the Towns and Parishes page, and the Abbots Bickington page. These are interlinked appropriately, and provide links leading out to GENUKI proper and elsewhere. Such external links are distinguished by the inclusion of a little double square icon.

The present experiment has concentrated on providing a replica of the GENUKI look and feel (as opposed to mimicking Wikipedia's style), and on investigating how much of GENUKI's source HTML can be reused in the wiki. Problems that it has exposed, and not investigated, include (i) how to represent and store GENUKI's hierchically organised set of pages, (ii) how the handcrafted conversions, particularly related to linking, that have created these wiki pages could be automated, and (iii) how to convert GENUKI's conventional HTML into Wikimedia's simplified text mark-up language, so as to increase the chances of casual users taking on editing.

Entry point: UKI-England-Devon

Brian Randell, 4 Jan 2008