TooManyWikiEngines
There’s tons of different WikiEngines (or WikiClone?s) out there. This provides a vibrant diversity of ideas, but it also means that the sum total of wiki developer effort is split into 1000 pieces.
One aspect of the problem is that in order to try out a few new features, often a developer simply forks a WikiEngine. The different wiki engines are like lots of small tidepools, each of them with a few unique features, most features being stuck to their WikiEngine.
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These tools will
- allow users and communities to try out new features and different WikiEngines quickly and frequently
- allow different WikiEngines to access each others’ PageDatabase?s
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Full article: http://communitywiki.org/TooManyWikiEngines
License: Creative Commons License
Indexed in May 2008
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