Wiki Techniques

Wiki Techniques

Wiki has a combination of Unique and Common Techniques which make it an effective IdeaSpace. Where Ideas, Opinions, Proposals, Pet Notions and Theories, and even a Sandbox for playing exist. It is a peer monitored and maintained space which is a microcosm of the space of which it is a part -- the Internet. Certain Techniques and features are part of wiki. Wiki can be said to be both a collection of pages and an experience. Using the same identifier: Wiki.

Here is a list of some of the useful techniques and features of a Wiki: Pages

• Easily created and maintained spaces which use the accessor of a Browser to View and Modify them.
• Naming mechanism which gives each page a unique WikiWord name which serves as a link as well

Links

• AutomaticLinking -- Linking by using WikiWords to related or referenced ideas
• BackLinks -- Discovery by the WikiEngine of pages linking to the present page
• WantedPages -- Distiguishing between Links to pages which exist and to links to pages that do not.

Grouping

• By Users

  • User Prepared lists and links
  • Categories and Topics
  • Patterns
  • RoadMaps

• By Wiki

  • RecentChanges
  • RecentEdits
  • FindPage Search
  • LikePages
  • VisualTour

HomePages

• Participants
  • Authors and Refactorers
  • Readers
  • Refactorers
• Non-Participants
  • Authors
  • Significant Computer People
  • Historically Significant People