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Revision as of 06:29, 25 September 2008
Contents
A Quote to Start With
“Who, singular or plural, invented Tlön? The plural is, I suppose, inevitable, since the hypothesis of a single inventor — some infinite Leibniz working in obscurity and self-effacement — has been unanimously discarded. It is conjectured that this ‘brave new world’ is the work of a secret society of astronomers, biologists, engineers, metaphysicians, poets, chemists, algebrists, moralists, painters, geometers, ... guided and directed by some shadowy man of genius. There are many men adept in those diverse disciplines, but few capable of imagination — fewer still capable of subordinating imagination to a rigorous and systematic plan. The plan is so vast that the contribution of each writer is infinitesimal.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
(1940)
A Bus
- WikiWikiWeb was the first site to be called a wiki.
- Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on the Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995.
- It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the "Wiki Wiki" shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals.
MediaWiki is a Foundation
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MediaWiki is software
- GPL = FREE + Open Source
- MediaWiki server best on LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MySql, Php), but also Windows and Mac
- Scalable
- Small: 36 MB of PHP pages once installed
Customization
- Skins & Customization
Editing
Searching
- Search for keywords
- Create new pages
Versioning
- driver.c C Driver for Assembly Language
Automatic Merging of Concurrent Edits
Access Control
- .htaccess
- Config files
Backup
- Cron
- MySqlDump
- rsync
Setting up one's own Wiki site
- Wikia
- Third parties, e.g. http://www.siteground.com/mediawiki-hosting.htm
Research on Wikipedia
A Parting Quote
You work your labyrinthine ears,
those perfect disciplines,
registering all that hums, ticks.
O you encyclopedia you [...]
Spencer Reece
The Clerk's Tale.
at the Poetry Center at Smith on 9/30/08, 7:30 p.m.