The future of Linux: what it means for Wikipedia (apc)

The future of Linux: what it means for Wikipedia (apc)

Posted Feb 8, 2008 17:20 UTC (Fri) by kingdon (subscriber, #4526)
In reply to: The future of Linux: what it means for Wikipedia (apc) by rsidd
Parent article: The future of Linux: what it means for Wikipedia (apc)

My experience with Wikipedia is somewhat similar although I guess a bit more positive. You can find problematic stuff there (and cleaning it up is one of the hobbies of the dedicated wikipedian), but for me the amazing (and surprising) thing is that Wikipedia works as well as it does. Oh, and with policies, blocks, reverts, page protection, etc, it isn't quite as anarchic as it appears (although I suppose that is one of those "glass half empty or half full" things).

As for "wikilinux", there's forkolator and a long time ago Ward Cunningham had some kind of wiki which let you edit perl code on wiki pages (although I'm not sure whether/where this was published). And of course there is fitnesse where people (not necessarily the whole world) edit acceptance tests (sort of a kind of code) via a wiki. But all of these are very much embryonic in terms of whether there is a a workable concept lurking here.

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