* * * * *

                       Through Hypertext Documentation

> The concept of a Wiki may seem strange at first, but dive in and explore
> its links. Wiki is a composition system; it's a discussion medium; it's a
> repository; it's a mail system; it's a tool for collaboration. Really, we
> don't know quite what it is, but it's a fun way of communicating
> asynchronously across the network.
>

WikiWikiWeb [1]

I've come across the site a year or two before but I never really played
around with it that much. But today I came across it again and this time, I
decided to play around with the concept, which seems to be what Tim Berners-
Lee invisioned the web could be—one were you can view and edit the pages you
see.

Obligatory Sidebar Links

* Linear Shuffle [2]
* Literate Programming [3]
* Self Documenting Code [4]
* Wiki In Hyper Perl [5]
* SandBox [6]


Okay, maybe he didn't mean to edit any pages you yourself didn't author but
there aren't many sites out there that will let you arbitrarily edit their
pages, yet these sites [7] allow you to edit their pages.

But while cruising the WikiWikiWeb, I thought that such a hypertext system
would be perfect for computer documentation for a group or organization—you
install the documentation on an internal website (or external website if you
really want to live on the edge) and as people peruse it, they can annotate
(or even correct!) the documentation to acurately reflect the true state of
affairs.

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
[2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LinearShuffle
[3] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LiterateProgramming
[4] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SelfDocumentingCode
[5] http://c2.com/cgi/wikibase?WikiInHyperPerl
[6] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SandBox
[7] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiClones

Email author at [email protected]

You are viewing proxied material from gopher.conman.org. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.