Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Wiki Tools
Definition
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
Typical wiki features. How do I create a new page? Five essential mark-up commands.
Wiki Tools
Make a free, password-protected wiki as easily as a peanut butter sandwich.
seedwiki
Do the simplest possible thing. To start a wiki or a blog you need an account. Accounts are free, with no limits on the number of wikis or blogs or the number of participants. The only information required is your name and email address
Wikispaces - A Place To Grow Communities
Wikispaces is a place where you can easily build web pages with other people. Signing up and creating your own wiki space is fast, free, and easy.
PhpWiki is a WikiWikiWeb clone in PHP. A WikiWikiWeb is a site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. Multiple storage backends, dynamic hyperlinking, themeable, scriptable by plugins, full authentication, ACL’s.
JotSpot - enterprise and personal wiki hosting and free wiki software trial. JotSpot was founded in 2004 as the first company to provide an application wiki. JotSpot has since launched several other products, including:
- JotSpot Tracker - an online spreadsheet, much like a wiki
- JotSpot Bug Reporter - a simple, web-based bug tracking database
- JotBox - a server appliance that runs the JotSpot Application Wiki
We’ve just rolled out an integration between Wikispaces and two blog services, Blogger and Typepad.
Samples Wiki
A wiki on …. wiki
Daf’s wiki space about ICT awards.
Articles on wiki
Emerging Technologies: Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration
An article by Bob godwi Jones.
Blogs and wikis, because they are different spaces, manifest/take advantage of/engage different epistemic and rhetorical possibilities and serve different rhetorical and epistemic ends. They engage different rhetorics: one topical, carved from the inside out; the other chronological, staying on top of things.
