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 services) have persistent history so that all old versions are available for retrospection. Thus it is possible to tell for instance that this page has been reverted 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 trolls. See wiki best practices 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 flows 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