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| - | [http://www.wiki.org/ The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web]
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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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| - | 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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| - | 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): | + | |
| - | * 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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| - | "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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