Books about wikis

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[http://www.wiki.org/ The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web]
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Useful books on wikis include:
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Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham
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Addison-Wesley
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This book has a great deal of technical information, but I found the chapters on the social aspects of wikis to be the most intersting. Here are some of the highlights
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*[http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1852335327&id=croZMqc0l_oC&pg=PP5&lpg=PP5&dq=from+usenet+to+cowebs&sig=tiKnn03aUMPm2QBzwd49KqlAaeM From Usenet to CoWebs] edited by Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher.
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*[http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WikiWay The Wiki Way] by BoLeuf and WardCunningham.
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Chapter 1
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Introduction to Discussion and Collaboration Servers
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Other versions of online collaboration include email, shared folders, discussion servers (p. 4-9)
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Are wikis "Yet another obscure technology"? (p. 9)
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Features of web-based collaboration:
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*Free accessiblity of matieral
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*Up-to-date versions
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*Hyperlinking
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*Independence of platoform and application
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*Content markup
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p. 10
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Disadvantages include editing interfaces (tend to be kind of basic) p. 11
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The Hawaiian word "wikiwiki" means "fast, speedy; to hurry, hasten; quick, fast, swift" p. 14
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"A wiki is a freely expandable colletion of interlinked web 'pages', a <i>hypertext system</i> for soring and modifying information--a <i>database</i>, where each page is easily editable by any user with a forms-capable Web browser cleint.  p. 14
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Ward Cunningham develope the first wiki in 1994.  The original WikiWikiWeb site is the [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki Portland Pattern Repository]. Discusses software designe methods.  p. 15
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The essence of a wiki (quote):
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* A wiki invites all users to eidt any page or create new pages within th wiki Website using only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any extra add-ons
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*Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between differnt pagbes by making page link creation almost intuitively easy and by showing whether an intended target exists or not
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*A wiki is not a carefully crafted site for casual vistors.  Insted, it seeks to invovle the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the website landscape.
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p. 16
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"Wiki is inherently democratic".  Users all have exactly the same capabilites.  p. 17
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Reformulating the essance of wiki (quote):
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*It uses a simple navigational model, with a quick cross-linking method to encourage linking together concenps 'a click away'. (....)
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*Editing page content is 'just a click away' by typing i text from the Web browser, using dirt-simple 'markup' when needed.
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*Anyone in the world can change anythign (or <i>change it back</i>.
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*It provides fast retrieval (fast, built-in search); links are page titles.
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This book uses "Wiki" to refer to wikis as a concept, and wiki to refer to their implementation. p. 14
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