Common Craft – Online Community Strategies: Wikis Described in Plain English
It seems that many relatively “old” technologies have reached ciritical mass of late to start making news beyond early adopters. Blogs and RSS have been around for many years, but only in the last 6 months or so have I noticed that RSS buttons appearing on all the major tech news and other news sites (The BBC offers more feeds than I think any human could keep track of).
Wiki is another technology. It is, according to this excellent primer, nine years old! Remarkable that it has been below the RADAR for so long, but in the last few months I've started seeing references to it in the popular press. In fact earilier this week eWeek kept publishing online by using a wiki enabled site to upload content while NYC was having a none to small Internet problem (theives stealing NICs out of Verizon).
Common Craft – Online Community Strategies: Wikis Described in Plain English: “You may have seen the word ?wiki? used to describe a website used by a group to collaborate. My intent with this post is to describe wikis and the basics of how they work- in plain English.”