2. [History]1
* WikiWikiWeb (“Wiki”) – the first wiki,
written in Perl in 1994
* Ward Cunningham’s idea to make
exchanging information easier
1
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb
3. [a wiki page]
* Can be edited by anyone
* Uses simplified HTML syntax
* Can be reverted to a previous stage
* Should have moderators
Wiki: HTML:
'''howdy''' <p>
<h1>
<em>howdy</em>
</h1>
</p>
5. [Wikipedia.org]
* “is an international Web-based cooperative free-content
encyclopedia.”
* Began as Nupedia, which had an extensive peer-review
process [Fig. 1.1], so now
* Wikipedia has more than 3,800,000 articles
Fig. 1.1
6. [The Future|Now]
* Mobile users, Don’t Panic!3
* “The House Rules prohibit various things, including
racism, ‘hard-core’ swearing, spamming, flooding,
languages other than English, and ‘otherwise
objectionable’ material.”
* The unofficial Google Wiki4
3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/pda
4
http://google.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
7. -+[End]+-
* wiki engines
– MoinMoin http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de
– DokuWiki http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki
– MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
– Roll your own
* wiki RFC?
* For more information, visit http://en.wikipedia.org