Experimental "political wikipedia" back up

by stevelu

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Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003 Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003 at 2:05:01pm PDT

After a technical hiccup this morning, an experimental wiki (collaborative writing site) for dKos and other bloggers is back up at

http://linksandtalk.com/cgi-bin/my-kwiki/kwiki.cgi

I have a few notes to kick things off, and some blank pages, including an empty dKos FAQ page waiting for you to write on.

The What: A wiki a simple online tool for collaborative writing. Some software developers created it years ago, to work on documentation. It's been proliferating in many versions since.

A wiki differs from a blog in that the goal is to create semi-permanent content over time, rather than serving up timely content that turns over fast. To see an excellent example of a built-out wiki, visit http://wikipedia.org.

I had been setting up a wiki installation, with the basic idea of having a kind of political wikipedia, when I saw the discussion of doing just that at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2003/10/15/10936/83. It seemed right to kick things off by inviting dKos people over.

Hatless and opendna have some excellent thoughts about where we might eventually want to take this at http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2003/10/15/10936/835/71#71
and http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2003/10/16/01032/546/1#1 respectively.

Hope to see you there.

Steve