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September 26, 2004
How to choose a wiki
I mentioned to KAT! how much I love media wiki. Jeremy got me into that flavour, though of course he's always loved wikis and thought they were the best tool for all things. Not. Anyway,
CT (me): mediawiki rulz
KAT: so you keep telling me
CT (me): I'm going to keep telling everyone that.
KAT: btw, DGP (5th floor Bahen) is setting up a wiki for their lab and trying to decide which to use
you should go offer your expert advice
CT (me): I got jeremy using a wiki...
CT (me): I've set up 5
CT (me): they'll use the wrong one for the same reasons every one does.
CT (me): they think about it, then choose, then are committed, so they reverse justify it
KAT: heh
CT (me): the only correct way is to use it, and start over with the next, keeping the old one around for reference, use it, and start over with the next, keeping the old one around for reference, use it, and start over with the next, keeping the old one around for reference, use it, and start over with the next, keeping the old one around for reference... and then realize that media wiki rulz
KAT: giggle
KAT: the Dr J wiki approach
CT (me): is there a better one?
nyet
CT (me): is there a better one and you're not going to tell me?
KAT: nope
CT (me): are you telling the truth?
KAT: never
CT (me): gotta blog this
KAT: giggle
Posted by jason at September 26, 2004 04:48 PM
Comments
Yup. Mediawiki seems to rule. Here's another way to tell. Use other peoople's wikis (OPW) long enough that you get a bunch of flavors. Of course, that's not what I did.
Yes wiki's suck. I wonder what's going to happen in that space in terms of tool development, when we have 1,000,000 new wikis over the next year...
Posted by: Alex H. at September 26, 2004 10:21 PM
my position is unchanged.... wiki's are evil. they should not be used ever by anyone for any reason. this of course is contradicted by my actions, i currently have 3 mediawiki's setup and will likely do 4 more in the near future, if i have time. why do i use them? well, they save time. i started to use wikipedia, and that i found easy enough and intuitive enough to merit further use. this does not mean they are not evil and should be used. properly, to do what they do you should just code it all by hand, in a nice editor like bbedit, but i'm running out of time for things like that.....
i want a volunteer to help move the feminist theory website into media wiki, anyone willing to help with that?
Posted by: jeremy hunsinger at September 26, 2004 05:12 PM