November 28, 2011
In my spare time, I read a lot of wikis (I really need a more interesting life). Typically, what happens is that I’ll hear of a subject, find a wiki that covers that subject, and then I’ll end up reading the entire collection of articles for a long time. Granted, I’m sure that at least some of you do it too, so I thought I’d share some sci-fi wikis with you.
September 22, 2011
Our story starts with something called TiddlyWiki. In a nutshell, TiddlyWiki is a single-file wiki, which makes heavy use of JavaScript. You can download it to your own computer, Dropbox or USB stick, and use it to maintain notes about anything. That’s lovely, but it’s not exactly a website in the common sense of the word. In sweeps Osmosoft.
June 23, 2011
These days, there are a lot of businesses, both online and offline, that make use of wiki platforms to help generate teamwork and collaboration, while remaining at remote locations. With Tiki Wiki, you can host it on your own web server so that you can decide exactly how it looks and functions, and at the same time you can access your Wiki from anywhere in the world.
January 29, 2011
![OpenLeaks, A WikiLeaks Alternative, Just Went Live [News]](http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/111535989_640-150x150.jpg?323f2c "OpenLeaks, A WikiLeaks Alternative, Just Went Live [News]")
OpenLeaks, an alternative to WikiLeaks, which is a site that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks, has officially gone live. WikiLeaks, as you may know, fell under harsh criticism and faced a lot of pressure from various governments and organizations because of material “leaked” via the [...]
November 18, 2010
If you’ve used the Internet, you’ve used Wikipedia. Its articles are highly ranked for pretty much every Google search term in the universe, and there’s a reason for that: useful, accurate information that’s always up to date. But Wikipedia’s not the only project brought to us by Wikimedia. A number of ongoing experiments are offered [...]
August 18, 2010
“A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor.” That’s the definition provided by Wikipedia, the most popular wiki on the Internet. Wikis serve as collaborative sites and can be very useful [...]
June 25, 2010
Those of us who spend a lot of time online have a slightly different vocabulary than the rest of the world. We use words like blog, webinar, and meme on a daily basis (and actually know what they mean). There is no need to use a standard dictionary because a lot of the definitions we’re [...]
April 7, 2010
This article covers several useful and powerful Wikipedia search engines. Put in a search with a keyword into a regular search engine and there’s a high chance a reference from Wikipedia will pop up at the head of the results. Wikipedia has become a virtual “˜Encyclopedia Britannica’ for a lot of us. I would rate [...]
March 24, 2010
Anyone who’s used Wikipedia already knows what a wiki is: a series of user-created pages that link to each other heavily. Wikipedia being among the largest collaborative projects on the face of the planet, it’s not hard to see how wikis can be used to get things done. What you’ve perhaps never considered is how [...]
January 24, 2010
To write a successful research paper, you should provide thorough information and tie it together into a conclusive story. While obtaining conclusive information tends to be rather difficult in itself, writing a convincing manuscript appears to be an even bigger hurdle. So what is the problem? It seems that many authors don’t realize that a [...]
