Mark Bernstein Comes up with a Definition of Wikis

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Mark Bernstein Comes up with a Definition of Wikis

Mark Bernstein came up with this here thing:

I'd like to propose a middle way, a definition that is broad enough to contain everything that's distinctively wiki-like (though not everything that has some WikiNature in it).

Wikis are constructive hypertexts in which each place has a name, and writing that name represents a link to that place.

It's the best definition I've seen so far. It's consistent with existing theory, but understandable to modern practitioners who are pathologically incapable of learning from history (which includes pretty much anybody in the A list and those who think that the history of the web, new media and hypertext started with Tim Berners-Lee).

I'm not going to say more as it'd violate my personal Ph.D subject embargo.

Baldur Bjarnason – 25/8/06

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