Jones,Daniel E. wrote: > Perhaps it is a reference to the Hawaiian word for 'quick', which is > 'wikiwiki'.
Hey, pretty good guess -- actually it is a reference to exactly that. The referenced page (http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/MeteredInternetAccessEuropeShipboardAn) is a page from a fairly new type of software known as a wiki. The first wiki was created by Ward Cunningham. He chose the name at least partially based on the Hawaiian word "wikiwiki" which he recognized as the name of the (quick) airport shuttle in Hawaii. The intent is to allow people to quickly make and edit web pages, including allowing anyone to edit a page anyone else has created (collaboration). See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/AboutThesePages, and especially http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/AboutThesePages#Some_Useful_Links for some links to more information. A WikiWord is formed by "scrunching" two or more capitalized words together, like AboutThesePages. If you put such a WikiWord on a page (on most wikis) it automatically creates a link to a page called AboutThesePages. If the page exists, the link looks like a normal link (in blue and underlined) -- if the page does not exist, the link looks more normal (maybe blue) but has a question mark afterwards. If you click on the question mark, you are led to create the new page. In a way, the WikiWord thing is a distraction -- there are other easy ways to create a new page that don't involve a wiki word (except, currently, as the name of the page). If I knew enough to rewrite TWiki, I might take the WikiWord stuff out. Some of the developer's of TWiki are thinking along similar lines. TWiki is the variety of wiki I like best so far -- it has an active community of developers, it stores all old revisions of a page, it can be set up to require a password for creating or reading pages, can include drawings, and other features that don't immediately come to mind. See: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/WikiWord * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/TestSketch Wikilearn is the temporary twiki site for WikiLearn, a web site intended to help newbies to Linux (perhaps immigrating from Windows) to learn Linux and anything and everything about free and open source software and programming. My intent is to do that by recording my (and other's) learning experiences. I would love to have help in creating content or setting up and maintaining the site. See some lists of ToDos at: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDos * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDosDiscussion * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDosLatestVersionOfTWiki * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDosOld As it states in http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDos#If_You_Want_to_Help: If anyone is interested in any of the tasks listed above, write to me -- even it you can't do it now, but have a desire to learn. (I'm not in a position to instantly teach anyone how to do this, but having someone else interested in learning with me might restore my flagging enthusiasm -- it seems like it's been a much longer road than I expected.) If you're interested in learning anything about Linux, free software, or programming, and willing to contribute content, just peruse the web site and jump in. Eventually I'd hope to have a better framework (see http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDos#Partial_List_of_Webs), but for now, if you have something to add, start a page or edit an existing page. There is a fairly new thing in TWiki -- parent / child pages and I haven't really worked out how I want to use that feature, especially as opposed to using sub webs. See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/TWikiBreadCrumbTrail. If you have questions, write to me (or post them on the TWiki). Before you can edit or create pages you must register at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration. The registration process is painless, and asks a few innocuous questions. A simple way to start a page is to paste the following into your browser's address bar: "http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/"; followed by the name of the page you want to create, like TestPage, then press enter. If the page exists, you will see it, if not you will be led to create it. Edit an existing page to get an idea of the simple TWiki markup language that can be used. (Until you need the markup, you can just type plain text, which will appear just fine.) Randy Kramer > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > > > On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 13:28:13 -0500 > > Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > > > > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/MeteredInternetAccessEuropeShipboardAn > > > > Randy, > > > > I realize this is OT, but what the heck are wiki-words and such things? I > > recognize the little robot guy from Buck Rogers.-- > > daRcmaTTeR > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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