Read the Novel, Then Update the Wiki

[Humberto Torofuerte]

In other words...RTFN?

On 1/3/07, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> "Read the Novel, Then Update the Wiki," City of Warts,
> 12/6
>
> The world of wikis
> I must express my disappointment with one false note
> in Chris Thompson's otherwise informative article.
> Thompson states that Tim Ware "is coordinating the
> global Wikipedia project to annotate, categorize, and
> investigate every single detail in the novel." The
> title gets the terminology right; this sentence does
> not.
>
> Wikipedia is a specific project, only one example of
> the software type known as the wiki. (To be sure, it
> is today the largest wiki in the world.) It was
> launched in January 2001, but wiki concepts and
> implementations had been in existence several years
> before that. Ward Cunningham, who invented the word,
> traces his software back to a HyperCard project in the
> late 1980s.
>
> Wikipedia has its own community behaviors and official
> policies, some of which are not so appropriate for Mr.
> Ware's project. (Read the Wikipedia policy page called
> "No Original Research," and you'll easily imagine
> cases when the Pynchon Wiki will need the exact
> opposite.) The Pynchon Wiki contributors are still
> working out these issues, which is only to be expected
> since the "p-wiki" is such a new development.
>
> It is exciting to see the wiki concept evolve beyond
> the "killer app" which made it famous.
>
> Blake Stacey, Boston, Massachusetts
>
> http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2007-01-03/news/letters.html
>
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