The more I work with wikis I found that one important thing is missing. Much works goes into making Wikis look like they are none. While I find wiki development is not progressing. The most important development in the last years from my view is the invention of the common wiki language Creole.
What I am [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Wikipedia’
2007/12/02
Branched Wikis
2007/10/26
Why is Wikipedia dying?
Now that what could be foreseen of those who have got some knowledge about Wikis has become reality. User and content on Wikipedia is not growing as it has been in the past (see link). Why is this happening? First we must ask: Why did Wikipedia work? Because everybody could contribute and every contribution was [...]
2006/10/13
Inclusionism vs. .* ?
Inclusionism is a philosophy held by Wikipedians who favor keeping and amending problematic articles over deleting them.(read more at Mediawikis Meta Wiki) – thats just as a start for discussing some issues that Wikis andopen source projects do have in common. I think one could call me an inclusionist. But not in all aspects. I [...]
2006/02/12
Future of GNOME = future of free desktops !?
John Williams asks about the future of GNOME. I would agree with his analysis, though not with his consequences. I think the problem is the definition of GNOME itself. Historically it was important to build GNOME as an organisation as well as a desktop. Companies have since built uppon GNOME. The problem today [...]
2006/01/07
Common Documentation
There are some exciting projects running. One of this is the web-based system for translating open source software into any language: Rosetta – this is not the same, although similar to the project with the same name The Rosetta Project (which is is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build [...]
