Nah, I'm good. I've used PBwiki when I've wanted a wiki service for myself since I don't have any hosting space at this time, and one of my friends set up a Twiki last summer when we needed to collaborate on something. I take it that PBwiki, Twiki, and Wikimedia are all different "installs" of wikis? What's your favorite?
It's more that I'm trying to puzzle out a working definition of the term "wiki" - I've always told people when they asked me that it's "a webpage that can be edited by anybody." Well, GoogleDocs can be edited by anybody, but while they're viewable and editable through a browser (other than Safari), they're not really webpages. I've also told people that the purpose of wikis is to create a collaborative document, and GoogleDocs has definitely got that down pat. Is the linking the characteristic that distinguishes GoogleDocs from wikis?
Linking things together (and the ability to use most HTML functionality without learning HTML) are the distinguishing features that GoogleDocs lack, yes. (http://www.pmwiki.org/)
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Date: 2007-06-18 05:32 pm (UTC)It's more that I'm trying to puzzle out a working definition of the term "wiki" - I've always told people when they asked me that it's "a webpage that can be edited by anybody." Well, GoogleDocs can be edited by anybody, but while they're viewable and editable through a browser (other than Safari), they're not really webpages. I've also told people that the purpose of wikis is to create a collaborative document, and GoogleDocs has definitely got that down pat. Is the linking the characteristic that distinguishes GoogleDocs from wikis?
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Date: 2007-06-18 05:36 pm (UTC)Linking things together (and the ability to use most HTML functionality without learning HTML) are the distinguishing features that GoogleDocs lack, yes. (http://www.pmwiki.org/)