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What's A Wiki? Why Bother?

Good question. Its a collaborative web site. Its different from a mailing list in that its persistent and that the "topics" are grouped together on one page rather than as a disjointed series of mail messages, and it makes use of the web's ability to hyperlink, cross refernce and search, which mailing lists, even archived mailing lists, cannot do.

Wiki As A Community

See http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?CommunityMember for a starting point.

What Makes A Wiki Different From a List or a Blog?

For a start, it archives threads of discussions together and gets rid of many of the annoying features of mailing lists. You can see the whole thread of discussion as well as any links to off-topic matters, side matters and external points, without having to send the whole mass of the thread back and forth time and again. That saves on storage space.

• Topics can be refactored and condensed down.
  • if its "Off Topic" you can create a link and discuss it elsewhere
• Being completely web-based it doens't take up much net bandwidth or space on your disk.
• You can set things up to notify you when a thread you are interested in has a new entry.
• There are much better full-text search and index capabilities
• You can embed images
• You can upload files, PDFs, etc that others can share.
  • This isn't like FTP store.
    • In the topic to which you attach them you can add explanatory text.
    • You can have more than one attachment per topic
• Much of the hypertext cross linking is done automatically
  • Just type the name of another topic

Wiki FAQ

• TWiki Help FAQs
  • TWikiFAQ: The first things people ask about TWiki
  • TextFormattingFAQ: Common how-to questions about posting in TWiki
  • Frequent users should also browse the full Reference Manual!
  • WebChangeAlert: Get email alerts linking to the latest page changes
  • TWikiGlossary: A simple glossary of TWiki terms

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-- AntonAylward - 27 Sep 2004