Wikipedia is the best known wiki. The wiki thing is about simple editing of pages, simple addition of pages, collaborative editing - and a mindset that allows work in progress to still be useful, sketched out and in use, and flexible, incremental changes.
Ward Cunningham invented the thing and is also one of the developer of extreme programming - which loosely, seems to mean similar, allow things to evolve, minimal master plan to start with - since its likely to change - allow incremental changes and constant updating.
Nice to see the behind the scenes thinking of a key web 2 tool.
- a fascinating podcast on all this here - cool design ideas on keeping it simple, intuitive, feeling empathy in the software process, teaching software ...
(twit has other very interesting insights from other creative types who were at the heart of whole software story)
Thanks for linking to FLOSS Weekly!
Comment by Randal L. Schwartz — May 31, 2008 @ 5:08 pm
Hi Rob,
Thanks for pointing out the podcast episodes. I was subscribed a long time ago to the this podcast but let it slide when I got too busy. Perhaps it’s about time re-subscribed.
Comment by Darrel — June 1, 2008 @ 10:45 pm