NotesBefore there was Wikileaks, before there was Wikipedia… Before there was Facebook and Twitter and blogs… there was a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham. He’s the guy who, back in 1995, invented the wiki. He also did something even more radical. He didn’t patent it. He passed up billions of dollars in potential revenue, because he believed the internet needed to be more democratic. And why did he invent the wiki in the first place?Unfurl
NotesWikimedia Labs is a two-part project aimed at improving the volunteer involvement in operations and software development. The first part of this project is Test/Dev Labs, and the second part is Tool Labs.FeedUnfurl
Notes"erin.el is an Emacs editing mode for the Wiki markup of TWiki. The current version of erin.el mostly just does semi-WYSIWYG fontifying and heading renumbering."Unfurl
Notes"Leave it to people in the wiki market to know how to collaborate. Nearly 20 different wiki providers have teamed up to offer a new Firefox extension that will notify users whenever they are on a page that is publicly editable, using a standard icon that sits in the same place the RSS autodiscovery icon appears. Clicking on the icon (img. on the left) will take you to that page's editing interface."Unfurl
Notes"The Universal Edit Button is a green pencil icon wiki.png in the address bar that indicates a web page is editable. It is similar to the orange "broadcast" RSS icon ExampleRSS.png that indicates there is an RSS feed available." Here's another thing I've been using for awhile that I can't believe I hadn't already bookmarked.FeedUnfurl
Notes"wikinear.com shows Wikipedia pages near you, based on your location according to Yahoo! Fire Eagle. The site is optimised for use on a mobile phone."Unfurl
Notes"Wrox's ASP3Wiki is the complete contents of one of the best-selling web programming books ever, Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0, free, online, in wiki format."Unfurl
Notes"I believe an online spreadsheet is an excellent starting point for building a mashup fabric: a document into which a range of online services can be combined."Unfurl
Notes"Yes, the irony of a guy who once worked for the premiere wiki software company just now realizing the benefits of using a wiki in this case is, well… let’s not go any further. I get it, OK?"Unfurl
Notes"We are lucky to have Mark Wubben, in from the Netherlands, interning here at Jot for the summer. His first project is going to be finishing up an internal project with the super secret code name “Jotliner.”"Unfurl
Notes"If you add Bitty Browser to your personalized page and then set it up to load a mobile version of a site, you have a powerful tool you can use right on your home page without ever leaving it. "Unfurl
NotesLiteratePrograms is a unique wiki where every article is simultaneously a document and a piece of code that you can download, compile, and run by simply using the "download code" tab at the top of every article.Unfurl
Notes"Wikipedia is so often considered authoritative. That must stop now, surely." Whomever assumed Wikipedia was ever authoritative or inherently correct is a moron who missed the point.Unfurl
Notes"Imagine doing Structured Writing. Each Information Block is an "item" in the Data Store. It has a label, bodytext (in Smart Ascii), one or more images (blobs) as properties."Unfurl
Notes"This plugin takes CamelCase words and puts them into links to URLs that incorporate that CamelCase word. If you've ever used a wiki, you know what that means."Unfurl
Notes"Unlike SubEthaEdit, JotSpot Live doesn’t require any special client software: it’s a web application that runs in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari, using nothing but HTML, script, and CSS."Unfurl
NotesLooks interesting. Although, I've used that "open source content management application framework" phrase before-- for a way bloated and now long dead project :)Unfurl
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