Just to get things clear: When I talked about the offical site I was referring to www.tiddlywiki.com. And no, it would not be a monster-catalog because the cases you are referring to and tiddlywiki.com also chooses to put up front are not actual features of the file you can download there but are plugins and modifications (or complete makeovers in the case of tiddlyspace.com.)
Now for a beginner getting into TW it would be more helpful to explain what he can actually do right now with the file he just downloaded. Because that's quite a lot and TW is *very* different from the MediaWiki software that everyone knows. Instead some people tend to get carried away with the ramifications and throw around excitingly vague non-information of the "It can be so many things!"-sort, which isn't helpful at all. Regards, Kolya And I really don't care what the Danish wikipedia has to say about this. On Aug 11, 3:10 pm, Måns <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Miguel>.., any comments?.. > > The MiniPedia, you mention in your article is in fact a TiddlyWiki > with minor modifications.. > Isn't TW a web02 application?John Robb wrote: "What is Web 2.0? It is a > system that breaks with the > > old model of centralized Web sites and moves the power of the Web/ > Internet to the desktop. > > TiddlyWiki does exactly that - and better than any other "web- > application" I know of... > > Hi Kolya>What I personally would put first when explaining TW is that it's a > // single user local note-keeping application//. > >The "wiki" moniker is misleading in my opinion because most people expect a > >collaborative online software a la Wikipedia. > > The MiniPedia, Miguel mentions in his article is in fact a TiddlyWiki > with minor modifications.. > If "the official site" should explain what TW actually is - and how > it's used, (it actually does to some extent) it would be either a > monstercatalog with hundreds of totally different usercases or > tutorials showing how you can create webapplications for almost > anything... > Citation from the Danish Wikipedia about "Wiki": "Wiki culture is > characterized by the fact that no two wiki clones are identical. It is > often debated whether a page is a wiki or not. Some people use large > resources to define and preserve the differences." > Tiddlywiki is used as webpages/homepages/blogs/wikis/notebooks for > math/framework for interactive storytelling - etc etc ... The use of > wikisyntax and hyperlinks in a TiddlyWiki (the non-linearity) and the > fact that it can be edited instantly locally OR online - does indicate > that TW is very closely related to other netapplications also called > Wikis. > > Have a look at tiddlyspace.com and say one word which can describe > what's happening there - if that isn't online collaboration, I don't > know what is... > It's a notch more sophisticated than MediaWiki, in that it delivers > private spaces and an option to publish material. > > CCtiddly and TiddlyHome are just two more platforms designed for > collaboration,- and there are a few more to choose from. > > TiddlyWiki extends the word Wiki with a wider range of web2.0 tools > than any other wiki I know of - locally *and* on the web... > However reducing it to: "a // single user local note-keeping > application//." is more misleading than " inside the file you have a > complete suite to create a Wiki." > > Miguel - I think you've done a really good job! I'm sure that it will > be a good starting point for many newcommers to TiddlyWiki. Thanks for > sharing. > > Regards Måns Mårtensson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
