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Appendix H: Common Wiki Components

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Appendix Nine: Common Wiki Components


KEY:

Both = Characteristic common to traditional and clone wikis.
Traditional = Characteristic common mainly to traditional wikis.
Clones = Characteristic common mainly to clone wikis


  • Easily editable (Both)
    • Simple text markup language (Both)
    • Users can edit with plain Web browser. (Both)
    • Anyone can change anything. (Both)
  • Wikis are not carefully crafted sites (Traditional)
    • CSS (Clones)
    • WYSIWYG (Clones)
  • Hyperlinks (Both)
    • Page linking is intuitive (Both)
    • CamelCase (Traditional)
    • Interwiki (Both)
    • Page to page (Both)
    • Hyperlink to other WWW sites (Both)
  • Page History (Both)
    • Content is ego-less, time-less, and never finished. (Traditional more than Clones)
    • Revision (Both)
    • Deletion (Both)
    • Creation (Both)
  • Various Pages to Encourage Use (Both)
    • Sandbox (Both)
    • Tutorials/Help Pages (Both)
    • Special Pages (Both)
      • Most Visited (Clones)
      • Most Wanted (Clones)
      • Most Popular (Clones)
      • Most Edited (Clones)
  • Administrator Review (Both)
    • Public administrators (by community users) (Both)
    • Appointed admins (Clones)
    • Creator admins (Clones)
  • NPOV (Clones)
  • Community Copyright (Both)
    • Creative Commons (Both)
    • GNU GPL (Both)
    • Cloning is acceptable (Both)


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