CD Freaks starts testing Wiki - help us to gather knowledge
Posted on 28/07/05 19:46 by Jan Willem                             
CD Freaks starts testing Wiki - help us to gather knowledge
Many of you might have heard about Wikipedia, the the free encyclopedia. The software used for the project is MediaWiki and our system administrator Liggy has recently also installed this software on the CD Freaks Server.

Our aim is to gather as much knowlegde as we can and a Wiki offers a way for everyone to contribute. Those who are not familiar with a Wiki should certainly take a look and try to discover the secrets of the Wiki. Although it might look like a strange concept to you, Wikipedia has proven that it works.

A Wiki allows everyone to add and modify content, categorise it and make it accesible to everyone. We believe that knowlegde is power and would like everyone to give it a try. You will learn how it works very fast, simply by take a look at the code of current pages (hit the edit tab on top of the page). We look forward to see your contributions and hope everyone will share.

Currently we are in a testing phase to see if people are willing to contribute, if they do we will make more changes accordingly, to make it look better and to integrate it in the rest of the website.

Check out our Wiki at http://wiki.cdfreaks.com
 
We also encourage software developers, employees of hardware and media companies to add their company information.
 
Note: The Wiki system does not require a login/password to edit and add content. You can simply edit the pages without registering. (The idea is that the good will overcome the bad on the long run). Also small contributions such as fixing typo's and spelling mistakes are very welcome.

Source: CD Freaks

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By Nila, Friday 29 July 2005 10:44
Nice one Smilie Wiki's are definitely taking off in a big way. I just implemented one at work for our corporate intranet. While you guys are evaluating it, you might want to have a look at TWiki. I started off using MediaWiki then moved the company one over to TWiki as it has some very powerful features that MediaWiki does not (ie a page can be set to display the results of a search saved in it so when someone goes to the page they instantly just see the search results in the page so you could have a page called: Software Reviews and just set it to do a search of any page with the word review in it so when people clicked it they automatically saw the results without having to do the search themselves. This means one person can spend time perfecting the search query and everyone sees its results. Its also extremely easy to set Auth per page for multiple users, groups, etc). Anyway, nice job on implementing one. Good luck with it Smilie
By petera, Saturday 30 July 2005 14:24
peteraJust a suggestion, it might be a good idea to have a link to it on the menu bar, that way more people will see it, rather than relying on this news post (that will probably be buried under other stories in a few days time).
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