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Wiki Wiki Web has been around for a long, long time. Productivity Award winner in Web Sites and Developer Networks category of "Software Development Magazine" (see www.sdmagazine.com ). We deserve a pat on the back!


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Jan, 2007: Jimmy Wales blasts Microsoft for paying people to change information about the firm in Wikipedia

Nov, 2006: lnk.nu "The office of U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte announced Intellipedia, which allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government's classified Intelink Web much like its more famous namesake on the World Wide Web." en.wikipedia.org

"Wikiality", a word invented(?) by Stephen Colbert, of "The Colbert Report" named one of the top TV buzzwords of 2006. news.yahoo.com . Aug 28, 2006.

eWeek.com article by Darryl K. Taft, March 20, 2006, Father of Wiki Speaks Out on Community and Collaborative Development www.eweek.com

See related: www.sqlsummit.com for MP3 audio interview and slides

Slashdot: Other Uses for Wiki Software? ask.slashdot.org Edit Hint: this link suited better to another page?

"Wiki" makes Global Language Monitor's list of Top 10 Word for 2005. www.languagemonitor.com

Hurricane Katrina: Cisco use wiki to help and Google News reported it (indirectly). See www.niusr.org

CNET (news.com.com ) Getting real about wikimania Charles Cooper interviews Joe Kraus (who started the Excite search engine Google).

"I think all technologies go through the typical hype cycle. There will be a point at which wikis are perceived as good for absolutely nothing and then they will find their natural rhythm and become a staple in the way that people manage and collaborate."

"One of the key things about wikis is that they evolve. They don't just start. They don't Begin With The End In Mind. They just begin, and you can change them over time. ... The difference between a user, a reader and a writer is very small. Also, they integrate really well."

Yahoo Agile Program manager job advertised with "Wiki" listed as number 1 skill (May05). See groups.yahoo.com

(2005Apr?) Jon Udell made available a 8 minute demo of Wiki Pedia in action to show collaboration. Very well done piece quoted in a lot of places. See at weblog.infoworld.com

Orbis Technology ranked as one of ten best intranet of 2004, in recognition of its success with Wiki As Intranet approach. See www.govtech.net

"Blogs and Wikis" at www.infoconomy.com

Newsdotcom report of Wiki News at news.com.com

Info World 20050103 Page0038 John Udell "Year of the Enterprise Wiki" - Mentions Ward and the emergence of Wiki used for Collaboration in the workplace.

Tech News World: November 30, 2004 "Open-Source News? Wiki Builds a New Kind of Journalism" by John P. Mello Jr.

Article About: "While on its face the Wiki model sounds more likely to produce trustworthy information than a blog, the facelessness of Wikis give some observers pause. "With blogs, over time you can figure out who you can trust," said Dan Kennedy, media critic for the Boston Phoenix. "With the Wikipedia, you don't know who's contributing to it."

Info World: November 15, 2004 "Wiki Goes to Work" www.infoworld.com

''CtoConnection -- Chad Dickerson

Article about "... how Wiki can provide a collaborative staging area for solving IT problems"

Info World: November 5, 2004 "Is Wiki under your radar" www.infoworld.com

''CtoConnection -- Chad Dickerson

Article about TWiki, history and mention of setting it up.

Business Week again: Champion a Wiki World www.businessweek.com Mostly about Social Text and Ross Mayfield.

EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 5 (September/October 2004): pp. 36-48. "Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not" by Brian Lamb www.educause.edu

Emphasis on academic uses of wiki.

Associated Press article on Wiki passed to many sources end Sep04 www.cbsnews.com

PC Magazine's Social Text Workspace Review (www.pcmag.com ) is also a good information for other popular Wiki software.

The Guardian G2 magazine in Britain printed an article about the Wiki Wiki Web on 01/04/2004, this was no April fool.

The BBC World program Click Online featured the Wiki Wiki Web on 2004-03-18 and mentioned the problem of abuse. You can view the clip, at the end of the episode (at 18:15), with Real Player, news.bbc.co.uk

Seattle Post-Intelligencer article on Ward Cunningham's move to Microsoft, the wiki he has created, etc.: seattlepi.nwsource.com

For a comprehensive overview of wiki, with many references to Wiki Wiki Web, see David Mattison's "Quicki Wiki, Swiki, TWiki, ZWiki and the Plone Wars: Wiki as PIM and Collaborative Content Tool" in the April 2003 issue of Searcher magazine (www.infotoday.com ).

Exploring with wiki - an inteview: www.artima.com

There is a very favourable article about Wiki Wiki in the German "iX magazin": see www.ix.de . There was yet another article in the c't magazine 02/03 (www.heise.de ) on page 176 but it's not yet available on the Web (it may be out in 2 or 3 months).

Cult website dashdowncrawl printed a report on the wikiwikiweb on 27/01/2004 http://www.geocities.com/dashdowncrawlyear11 www.geocities.com

Amazon guru and generally interesting internet personality thinks wikis are cool -- www.kiruba.com (Broken Link 2005-05-17)

Sebastian Rupley, Senior Editor of PC Magazine, interviews Ward Cunningham about wiki and blogs. (9 May 2003) http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=41446,00.asp www.pcmag.com Broken Link 20101115

About how an outsider view wiki, teams, and consensus: people.ischool.berkeley.edu

Making the best of a wiki the Write The Web interview of Simon Michael by Giles Turnbull on 23 Jan 2001. Article discusses zwiki.org and Simon's dealing with vandals there. [writetheweb.com (Broken Link 2005-05-17)]

Wiki was linked to by Michael Swaine in a Dr Dobbs Journal article in Jan99. The article is mostly about trashing the Java Language for Small Talk. http://www.ddj.com/articles/1999/9901/9901k/9901k.htm www.ddj.com

The New York Times Sunday Magazine Sunday 9 Dec 2001 did a special on "Important Ideas of the Year" and mentioned the Wiki Pedia. -- Charles Shapiro

Story on copyleft mentions Wiki Pedia and its roots here. (2002) http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/copyleft/ www.newscientist.com

National Public Radio's show "All Things Considered" carried a story on wikis in their July 21, 2003 edition. For audio, go to http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1344426 discover.npr.org

The December 30, 2003 issue of Pc Magazine has an article entitled "Take Back the Net", with a fairly large section on wikis. It speaks more about Running Your Own Wiki, but there are lots of references to Ward Cunningham and gives the Wiki Wiki Web URL.

The July 8-15 issue of Time Out New York profiled the new New York city wiki, NYWiki http://www.nywiki.com www.nywiki.com, in an article titled "Wiki cool" (article not online).

Date unknown, probably early 2003 author of OReilly book on Relax Ng gave credit to Wards Wiki for the collaborative creation of his book at books.xmlschemata.org .


Wiki In Plain English -- You Tube -- short (less than 4 minutes) explanation of what a wiki is -- example

donaldr.noyes.com

How 4 people might use a wiki insted of email to Coordinate a camping trip


Well, not news exactly. This excerpt is from a UK weekly net-news roundup mailing list called Need To Know, dated 20 November 1998:

Tim Berners-Lee, [TimBernersLee] as we recall, is always moaning about how the Web was *supposed* to be annotatable - it should be as easy to add and edit Web documents, he says, as it is to browse them. To see what kind of mess that would have lead to, you might like to check out the WIKI WIKI WEB, an easy to set-up, easy-to-understand, impossible-to-administrate "collaborative environment". In many ways, it's a self-perpetuating mess (it took us half an hour to work out how to get the source), but - like the Xanadu project it superficially resembles - it can't help but gland a few key geek hormones. The original Wiki is a tiny Perl script, but versions now exist in Python, Squeak, and other places where geeks do the Right Thing so much it becomes Wrong Again. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors - start here, we guess http://c2.com/cgi/hp?WikiInHyperPerl - aha! found it

What do you think? fair commentary?

Not exactly, but if you're a regular reader of Need To Know, then you know that the editors Danny and Dave know a lot about blogging/online life/cyber-rights and weird snack foods (respectively), and rather less about the nitty-gritty of technology, so you take their opinion with a pinch of salt.


CNN recently had an article on Wiki Pedia. See Imminent Death Of Wiki Predicted for more.


German language resources:

Kleinz, Torsten: Schreibrecht für alle! Mit Wikis Sites gemeinschaftlich betreuen. In: c't 2/2003. p. 176 ff.

Huhmann, Jochem: Schnell, schnell: Content Management für Eilige. In: iX 10/2002. p. 84 ff.

Müller, Erik: Das Web, wie es hätte sein sollen. In: Telepolis 30.01.2002. http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/11585/2.html www.heise.de

Müller, Erik: Das Wiki-Prinzip: Tanz der Gehirne Teil 1. In: Telepolis 09.05.2003. http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/14736/1.html www.heise.de

Müller, Erik: Alle gegen Brockhaus: Tanz der Gehirne: Teil 2. In: Telepolis 16.05.2003. http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/14802/1.html www.heise.de

Müller, Erik: Diderots Traumtagebuch: Tanz der Gehirne, Teil 3. In: Telepolis 23.05.2003. http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/14855/1.html www.heise.de

Müller, Erik: Diesen Artikel bearbeiten: Tanz der Gehirne: Teil 4. In: Telepolis 30.05.2003. http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/14903/1.html www.heise.de

Haussner, Stephanie: Was ist ein Wiki? Mediatut-Workshop am 10.01.2003. http://www.ph-heidelberg.de/org/mediatut/wiki_skript.pdf www.ph-heidelberg.de

Puls, Christoph; Bongulielmi, Luca & Henseler, Patrick: Leitfaden für den Aufbau einer unternehmensinternen Wissensbasis mit Hilfe von Wiki. ETH, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zentrum für Produktentwicklung, 2002. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=bericht&nr=217 e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch

-- Christian Kohl, Nov 07,2003

And link to the Polish magazine, the title is: cooperation against the rules

-- MD Jan 12,2004

Thank you for mentioning my article in Polish magazine. It is published also in Feb 2004 paper issue of this magazine.

-- AG May 18,2004


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