On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Dexter Graphic wrote: > > I might be persuaded to go if someone could explain to me what Wiki Wiki is. > I spent about half an hour going around in circles on the Wiki web site and > I only got more confused the more I read about what it was supposed to be.
Wiki Wiki is one of those deceptively simple ideas that's obvious in retrospect, but that was not at all obvious before Ward came up with it. A wiki is basically a database of pages and a program that turns them into HTML based on a simplified markup, the neat, radical cool bit is that every page comes with an edit link which means that anyone who views it can edit it. Our very own wiki lives at http://wiki.euglug.org although it has not yet aquired the momentum of the c2 wiki. It's a collaborative editing environment and it needs a certain level of participation to really get going as a social space, but I know of quite a few open source projects that use wikis for documentation scratchpads, and arguing architecture. It's one of the best pocket examples I know of, of a complex system arising out of a fairly limited grammar of interactions. http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
