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| − | ==<font size="5">'''Convivial Tools User Guide'''</font>==
| + | <font size="5">'''Wiki History Database'''</font> |
| − | <font size="3">See the '''[[Main Categories]]'''</font> or go to [[:Category:Root]].
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| − | This website presents useful information dealing with [[Convivial Tools]]. For more information about the site itself, see [[About this Site]]. On the subject of [[Convivial Tools]] see also these companion websites: | + | This website is a database about people, websites, software and concepts that played a role in the history of [[wiki|wikis]]. This site is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_a_work_in_progress work in progress]. |
| − | * [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools Encyclopedia]: encyclopedia-type articles about [[Convivial Tools]].
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| − | * [http://ctwiki.ouvaton.org Convivial Projects Wiki]: projects related to convivial tools.
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| − | ==Pages about Wikis==
| + | A [[wiki]] is a website whose pages can be edited by any visitor. The first wiki, called [[WikiWikiWeb]], was created by [[Ward Cunningham]] in 1995. Wikis were brought to the attention of the general public by the success of [[Wikipedia]], an online collaborative encyclopedia created in 2001. |
| − | For pages about wikis, see [[:Category:Wikis]].
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| − | ==Is this Website a Wiki?== | + | ==About this Website== |
| − | This website operates under MediaWiki software and thus has the potential to be a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki]. However, the site is protected against random editing, which means that you must create a user account to edit articles. In addition, at present only WikiSysop can create new accounts, because the wiki was recently spammed. Read the details at [[Spam Attack]]. | + | This website contains pages about the history of wikis, organised into main categories as shown below on this page. To browse the site, see: |
| | + | *[[Main Categories]]: structure of the site |
| | + | *[[:Category:Root]]: go here to work down the branches of categories and sub-categories |
| | + | *[[Road Maps]]: suggestions of pages to browse |
| | + | *[[About this Site]]: for more information about the site itself. |
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| − | ==Recent Posts== | + | ==[[:Category:Wiki History]]== |
| − | [[User:RainDog|RainDog]], the administrator of this site, would have preferred to end this page with a simple link to [[User:RainDog/Blog2007-10|RainDog's Blog]]. However, the following recent posts from [[User:RainDog/Blog2007-10|RainDog's Blog]] are copied here in order to try to maintain this Main Page in the Google listings. For an angry reaction to the way Google works, see [[RainDog's Second Rant]]. | + | Themes in [[Wiki History]]. |
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| − | *On 8 October 2007 this page is '''not listed''' on Google. For the history of this page's listings see [[Google Log]].
| + | ==[[:Category:Wiki People]]== |
| | + | People who played a role in the history of wikis. For an overview, see the [[Wiki People Narrative]]. |
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| | + | ==[[:Category:Wiki Websites]]== |
| | + | Significant historical wiki websites. For an overview, see the [[Wiki Websites Narrative]]. |
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| − | '''06 October 2007 - [[WikiSpam]]'''<br>
| + | ==[[:Category:Wiki Engines]]== |
| − | The toolswiki has been spammed. It started a week ago, when this site started to show up just a little bit on Google, but I only discovered it today. Fortunately the site had been configured to require creating an account before editing. The spammers were discrete, and created only a few pages, to avoid being detected. Consulting the page histories, I recreated the following record:
| + | Wiki engines are the software packages used to run wikis. For an overview, see the [[Wiki Engines Narrative]]. |
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| − | *'''date ---- user name --- page name'''
| + | ==[[:Category:Wiki Concepts]]== |
| − | *5 Oct ------ 8 r8y d9d ----- 雅思枪手13764107295雅思代考雅思
| + | The early users of wikis developed a range of specific terms and concepts related to the structure, functions and utilisation of wikis. For an overview, see the [[Wiki Concepts Narrative]]. |
| − | *5 Oct ------ 8 r8y d9 ------- @13764107295代考雅思代考雅思枪手QQ：27939721
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| − | *4 Oct ------ Luck668 -------- Gold wow-power-leveling
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| − | *1 Oct ------- 8P2q3K68 ----- 代考雅思代考托福代考雅思枪手QQ：27939721
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| − | *30 Sept --- 3P2e3K68 ----- =代考雅思代考托福代考QQ：27939721
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| − | *30 Sept ---- 3j2e3m64 ------ QQ：27939721代考雅思代考托福代考
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| − | *30 Sept ---- 8P2q3K68 ---- 雅思枪手QQ：27939721代考雅思代考托福代考
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| − | I quickly modified the LocalSettings.php file to allow account creation only by WikiSysop. I then logged on as WikiSysop and blocked one by one all 8 unwanted users. As WikiSysop I could have deleted these files, but I decided to leave them for the moment. To see them go to [[Special:Allpages]]. For the full story, see [[Spam Attack]]. Now I have to figure out a strategy for fighting spam, so that I can allow new user accounts again.
| + | ==Is this Website a Wiki?== |
| − | | + | This website operates under [[MediaWiki]] software and thus has the potential to be a [[Wiki]]. However, only registered users can create new accounts, and at the moment there is only one registered user. (As [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Wiley David Wiley] says: "A wiki without contributors is nothing but a blog on steroids.") |
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| − | '''05 October 2007 - [[GoogleMafia]]'''<br>
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| − | I discovered that my [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools Encyclopedia] website has already completely disappeared from the Google ratings. This saddening discovery prompted [[RainDog's Second Rant]]. See also [[GoogleMafia]] and [[GING|GING is not Google]].
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| − | '''04 October 2007 - Wikipedia article unknown to Google robot'''<br>
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| − | I tried to Google "Sunir Shah" to see if my [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunir_Shah Wikipedia article] about him has started to show up yet. I searched deep into the Google listing but never found the article. I finally put together a foolproof combination: "Sunir Shah" with "Early Life." That only brought up a couple of pages of Google listings, and the article wasn't there. So it hasn't even been crawled by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebot Google robot] yet! I put that article on Wikipedia more than two weeks ago. Apparently Google waits to find an external link before it crawls a new Wikipedia article. How long will that take? (Happy added note: on 8 October 2007 the Sunir Shah article is listed by Google and appears in '''eighth place''' for the search entry "Sunir Shah".)
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| − | When I was desperately searching, I tried the combination "Sunir Shah" plus "Wikipedia." Several pages down in the Google listings I found the [http://www.wikirage.com wikirage website], which had put the "Sunir Shah" article on an automatic list of "what's hot on Wikipedia" (so hot that Google missed the article entirely). The "Sunir Shah" article was on their list of articles that had received the most edits over a short time period.... So I'm a perfectionist....
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| − | '''04 October 2007 - Wikipedia "Recent changes"'''<br>
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| − | I suppose every Wikipedia contributor has tried this at least once: when I finished saving an edit, I went straight to "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges Recent changes]" to see it listed there. In the second it took me to open "Recent changes," some thirty edits had been saved on other articles, showing up on the list on top of mine.
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| − | '''04 October 2007 - Googling "toolswiki"'''<br>
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| − | I Googled "toolswiki" as a way to find this website (the URL includes "toolswiki.ouvaton.org"). There are several varieties. "ToolsWiki" in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case CamelCase] belongs to a [http://www-theory.lbl.gov physics site], although the wiki itself seems broken. The page called [http://www-theory.lbl.gov/toolswiki/index.php?title=Monte_Carlo_Generators Monte Carlo Generators] on that site is a long list of links to porn sites. This seems to be [[WikiSpam]]. My site is "toolswiki" all in small letters. For "toolswiki" the Google list includes a pointer to the main page of [http://communitywiki.org CommunityWiki]. Not because "toolswiki" is listed anywhere on the CommunityWiki page (it isn't), but because Raindog's Blog '''points to''' CommunityWiki. Just how does Google work anyway?
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| − | '''26 September - ThreadMess'''<br>
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| − | Ward Cunningham's original C2 wiki has a page about [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThreadMess ThreadMess]. This brought to mind a more general term, "WikiMess," which I Googled, finding a [http://ferret.bemidjistate.edu/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?WikiMess definition of WikiMess]. This is a page on what looks like a [http://ferret.bemidjistate.edu/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?Entry_Point pretty interesting wiki].
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| − | ''' 23 September - MeatballWiki and Sunir Shah on Wikipedia'''<br>
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| − | On Wikipedia I transformed the MeatballWiki article from a stub to a regular article, and created a new article on Sunir Shah. Since Sunir should have had an article long ago, I surmised internal Wikipedian resistance to this article, and expected a reaction. There was none. Apparently all the peevish Wikipedians have lost interest in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/MeatballWiki MeatballWiki conflict] and gone on to something else.
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| − | ''' 23 September - Technorati's best'''<br>
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| − | Thinking about useful links to be found on other peoples' blogs, I went to Google and typed "best blogs." Thus I found technorati, which I had heard of, but never intentionally visited. Technorati gives a [http://technorati.com/pop/blogs list of most popular blogs]. From a first selection my favorite is [http://lifehacker.com lifehacker].
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| − | ''' 20 September - Open Content, David Wiley and Jorn Barger'''<br>
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| − | Wikipedia indicates that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons Creative Commons] licenses were preceded by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_License Open Publication License] developed in 1999 by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Wiley David Wiley]. This lead me to [http://opencontent.org David Wiley's website], which includes an article called [http://opencontent.org/docs/begin_blog.html A Beginner's Guide to Blogs for Instructional Technologists]. Wiley states therein that the term "weblog" was invented by Jorn Barger in 1999. The article gives a link to Barger's [http://www.robotwisdom.com/weblogs original 1999 page] where Barger gives the following definition:
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| − | :"A weblog is a webpage where a weblogger 'logs' all the other webpages she finds interesting."
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| − | David Wiley also operates an [http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page OpenContent Wiki ] with a page on [http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Maintaining_a_wiki maintaining wikis], where it is stated that:
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| − | '''Prior to 20 September 2007 - Meatspace'''<br>
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| − | Wikipedia defines [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatspace Meatspace] as follows:
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| − | :"Meatspace is a dysphemism for real life or the physical world, and conceived as the opposite of cyberspace or virtual reality."
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| − | See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism Wikipedia dysphemism article] for the meaning of this latter term.
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| − | Did the term "Meatspace" serve as the inspiration for the name of the [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MeatballWiki MeatballWiki]? I saw somewhere that "meatballs" were wiki communities. Another hypothesis is that since Meatball was the first '''meta-wiki''' (a WikiOnWiki), Sunir swapped the t and the a to make it '''meat-wiki'''.
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