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<font size="6">'''Convivial Tools User Guide'''</font>
 
 
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This website presents reviews of resources (mostly websites) and products. While the emphasis is on tools that are perceived to possess the [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org/article.php3?id_article=2 characteristics of convivials tools], information may be given on enhancing the conviviality of any sorts of tools. As explained in [[About this Site]], the information presented is generally '''review information''' rather than '''how-to information''' (for the latter, see [[How-to Websites]]).
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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].
  
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== Main Categories ==
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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.  
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For the ''Convivial Tools User Guide'', see the [[Main Categories]].
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For the ''History of Wikis'' repository, see [[Category:Wikis]] and [[History of Wikis]]
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==About this Website==
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This website contains pages about the history of wikis, organised into main categories as shown below on this page. To browse the site, see:
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*[[Main Categories]]: structure of the site
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*[[:Category:Root]]: go here to work down the branches of categories and sub-categories
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*[[Road Maps]]: suggestions of pages to browse
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*[[About this Site]]: for more information about the site itself.
  
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== Companion Websites ==
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==[[:Category:Wiki History]]==
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The present website presents reviews of resources (mostly websites) and products. The following companion sites deal with other aspects of Convivial Tools:
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Themes in [[Wiki History]].
  
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* [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools Encyclopedia]: presents articles of an encyclopedic nature concerning convivial tools
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==[[:Category:Wiki People]]==
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* [http://ctwiki.ouvaton.org Convivial Projects Wiki]: discussion of projects related to convivial tools
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People who played a role in the history of wikis. For an overview, see the [[Wiki People Narrative]].
  
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== Is this Website a Wiki? ==
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==[[:Category:Wiki Websites]]==
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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. For the moment the question is moot, since [[User:RainDog|RainDog]] is the only user/visitor of the site - see [[RainDog's Editorial|RainDog's Rant]].
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Significant historical wiki websites. For an overview, see the [[Wiki Websites Narrative]].
  
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==Shortcuts==
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==[[:Category:Wiki Engines]]==
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[[:Category:Wikis]]
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Wiki engines are the software packages used to run wikis. For an overview, see the [[Wiki Engines Narrative]].
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==[[:Category:Wiki Concepts]]==
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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]].
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==Is this Website a Wiki?==
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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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