Editing Wiki

A wiki is '''an hypertext system where making links is very simple and fast for collective editing'''. All genuine wikis, such as this [[development wiki]] (which is one of many [[mediawiki-based service]]s) have persistent history so that all [http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki&action=history old versions are available for retrospection].  Thus it is possible to tell for instance that this page has been [[revert]]ed many times to remove [[spam]].

[[Wiki linking]] and how it works in [[mediawiki]] is one of many topics discussed in this development wiki.  This will be mostly of benefit to [[new troll]]s.  See [[wiki best practice]]s for other information of importance to newbies.

== wiki mindset ==

For more sophisticated views of what goes on politically and organizationally in wikis and related [[mindset]] see:
*[[wiki etiquette]]:  [[be bold]]
*[[wiki management]]:  steering clear of the politics - outlining wiki management problems, both here and in general
**[[neutral point of view]]:  balance of existing users' views - [[systemic bias]]
**[[New Troll point of view]]:  accomodating challenge from new users who strongly challenge the bias
**[[learning organization]]:  letting New Troll refine neutral
*[[wiki politics]]
**[[wiki witchhunt]]:  who wrote this?  who cares!
**[[sysop power structure]]: is it really ever necessary?

== proposals to reduce political problems ==

*[[Wiki Governance Practices]] - tries to outline good practices for managing wikis
::[[revert currency]] - a currency to make wiki management more predictable
::[[WikiVote]] - a type of vote cast for a [[campaign]] in [[Opinion Wiki]]. Also other types of votes have been proposed see [[Voting]] or [[Votes]] on this

=== wiki content ===
*[[naming convention]] 
*[[wikitext standard]] - easily the most important problem in wiki integration

=== wiki front ends ===
*[[Alternate wiki-implementations]] - comparisons of three different wiki-engines for implementation of [[Consumerium Services]]
::[[MediaWiki]] and [[MediaWiki modifications]] proposed to serve the [[Consumerium Services]] ''note - these are controversial and would implement a [[permission-based model]] which is contrary to most '''wiki''' ideologies''
::[[tikiwiki]] - ''already has the [[MediaWiki modifications]] but are these really required?  [[trolls]] say no''
::[[MoinMoin]] and [[Python]] - ''more suitable for [[worn device]] integration and [[wikitext standard]] support''

=== relevance to Consumerium ===

Many [[Wiki management]] questions arise regarding future consumerium use of wiki.  ''See '''[[Wikis]]''' for discussion on several proposed wikis that [[filter]] [[information flow]]s to enable [[Consumerium Services]] or [[Features]].''  These accept input, processing, and provide output that becomes the [[Consumerium buying signal]]:  a [[Research Wiki]] and [[Publish Wiki]] to complement this development effort are presently proposed:
*[[Development Wiki]] extensions to better incorporate all kinds of feedback
*[[Opinion Wiki]]/[[Research Wiki]] - two names for the same thing, though some concepts are defined with a rather specific idea of one or the other
*[[Content Wiki]]/[[Signal Wiki]]/[[Publish Wiki]] - which generate the [[Consumerium buying signal]] directly

''See '''[[Wikis]]''' for more on these wikis that enable [[Consumerium Services]] or [[Features]].''

'''External links'''
*http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWiki - for more indepth article on Wikis in general
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/consensus_decision_making - what wiki does for text, enable small consensus decisions to be compiled into whole articles or designs
*http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=wikitext_standard
*http://dowire.org/wiki/index.php/wiki_best_practice