Tag: wiki
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Project ThoughtStorms Goes Live
ThoughtStorms has been ported across to the Smallest Federated Wiki. Of course, there are plenty of failures, missing pages, bits of markup that aren’t handled correctly etc. But this is wiki, right? It’s never perfect. It’s always living and dying and composting. The problems will get flushed out, or worked-around, or become charming ruins over…
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Project ThoughtStorms
As mentioned previously, I’ve been looking into Ward Cunningham’s “Smallest Federated Wiki” concept. And I’m increasingly impressed. So much so, that I’ve re-oriented a lot of my projects around it. What do I mean? A decent follow-up to SdiDesk has been promised for an embarrassingly long time. Over the years I’ve struggled with exactly what…
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Smallest Federated Wiki
I can’t believe I haven’t looked more carefully at Ward Cunningham’s Smallest Federated Wiki. I did glance at it before, but am now making my way through the videos. Lot’s of absolutely perfectly pitched ideas working together.
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Another thing that I saw recently that looks pretty interesting : Fossil, a kind of source-control system with built in web-server and trac-like wiki and bug-tracking, all in a single executable file. I’ve no time to play with this at the moment, but it looks very cute.
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Growth of a Wiki.
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Nice. WikiIsNotWikipedia And by the same token, Wikipedia is not wiki.
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More playing with online spreadsheets. Here’s a cute example. This is an EditGrid spreadsheet that pulls book data from Amazon (including price in dollars), currency data from Yahoo, and then calculates the price in pounds of the books. It’s a “calculator” meaning that I’ve set up only one field to be editable (the search term…
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A wiki with “Executable English“?
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Mattis Manzel continues his explorations in pulling wikis and feeds together.