From: PeterThoeny Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 09:12:36 +0000 (+0000) Subject: none X-Git-Url: https://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs-wiki.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce2087d50e3a67ea8cdcb3137f725356f4987fdf none --- diff --git a/TWiki/TWikiSite.mdwn b/TWiki/TWikiSite.mdwn index 35e7fa6..212e2af 100644 --- a/TWiki/TWikiSite.mdwn +++ b/TWiki/TWikiSite.mdwn @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Topics of interest: - [[TWikiHistory]] shows TWiki's implementation history. - [[TWikiDocumentation]] is the implementation documentation. - [[TWikiAdministration]] tells you how to do administrative stuff, like renaming or deleting a topic. +- [[WikiCulture]] talks about the unique type of collaboration Wiki systems offer. **Note:** diff --git a/TWiki/WikiCulture.mdwn b/TWiki/WikiCulture.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5481623 --- /dev/null +++ b/TWiki/WikiCulture.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +%WIKITOOLNAME% is one of many [[WikiWikiClones]], the first one was built by Ward Cummingham. Collaborating the Wiki way is different from other collaboration tools like Usenet. A distinct **_Wiki culture_** forms around these tools: + +- Any and all information can be deleted by anyone. Wiki pages represent nothing but discussion and consensus because it's much easier to delete flames, spam and trivia than to indulge them. What remains is naturally meaningful. + +- Anyone can play. This sounds like a recipe for low signal - surely wiki gets hit by the unwashed masses as often as any other site. But to make any sort of impact on wiki you need to be able to generate content. So anyone can play, but only good players have any desire to keep playing. + +- Wiki is not WYSIWYG. Contra the dumbing down of programming, it's an intelligence test of sorts to be able to edit a wiki page. It's not rocket science, but it doesn't appeal to the TV-watchers. If it doesn't appeal, they don't participate, which leaves those of us who read and write to get on with rational discourse. + +- Wiki is far from real time. Folk have time to think, often days or weeks, before they follow up some wiki page. So what people write is well-considered. + +(Quoted from _WhyWikiWorks_ at Ward's original Wiki system, the Portland Pattern Repository, ) + +Related topics: [[TWikiWeb]], [[WelcomeGuest]], [[GoodStyle]], [[WikiSyntax]] + +-- [[PeterThoeny]] - 05 Nov 2000