Creating a Wiki

[Sean B. Palmer]

The second domain that I bought was called infomesh.net, after one of
the names that TimBL was considering for the web, according to his
book, Weaving the Web (p.26). I wondered if there was any record of
this early idea on the web itself, so I had a look into early web
history. Meanwhile I thought about my old articles on the *Early
History of HTML* and the *Oldest Webpage*. It would be fun to write a
big article on the very early history of the web, mainly focussing on
the years 1990–2 inclusive, before hype.tar was created.

* http://swhack.com/logs/2009-12-15#T12-10-37
* http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/
* http://www.w3.org/History/1992/timbl-floppies/TimBerners-Lee_CERN/hype.tar.Z

Of course, the web started with ENQUIRE, and the nodes and arcs
diagram (Fig. 2) at the bottom of p.5 reminds me of the underlay and
overlay diagrams that Tim would go on to use 25 years later:

* http://www.w3.org/History/1980/Enquire/manual/
* http://www.w3.org/History/1980/Enquire/manual/#p5 (Fig. 2)
* http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/diagrams/arcs-1.gif
* http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/diagrams/arcs-3.gif

This is what led me to think that one of the reasons why Wikipedia is
so successful is that it's so conducive to tafting. That is to say,
the huge majority of the links in Wikipedia articles are to other
articles. They pepper articles with as many of them as possible, and
so the whole thing links together really well. I remember Aaron tried
something like this with logicerror.com, but it didn't work so well
because he couldn't possibly generate as much information as we find
on Wikipedia.

* http://groups.google.com/group/whits/t/01a6ed03576d35a6
* http://logicerror.com/

So I've been thinking some more about starting a really well knit,
taftable wiki. The trouble is, I have no major compunction to start a
wiki on my own site, so that got me looking for good free wikis. Of
course there aren't any. The best ones are probably jottit or github,
but github is really meant only for documenting the code that you have
in a particular project.

[Dave Pawson]

On 4 April 2010 15:43, Sean B. Palmer <s...@miscoranda.com> wrote:

> This is what led me to think that one of the reasons why Wikipedia is
> so successful is that it's so conducive to tafting.

William Howard Taft?
Verb? To taft?

taft, n. Plumbing.
A widening-out of the end of a lead pipe into a broad thin flange.
So taft v. trans., to expand and turn outwards at a sharp angle the
end of (a lead pipe) so as to form a wide edge or fastening flange.
Doesn't seem to fit with wikipaedia?

Meaning please Mr English!

regards

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[Noah Slater]

On 4 Apr 2010, at 19:15, Dave Pawson wrote:

> Meaning please Mr English!

http://groups.google.com/group/whits/browse_thread/thread/01a6ed03576d35a6/fd3ab81e7d98eed1?show_docid=fd3ab81e7d98eed1

[Dave Pawson]

Thanks Noah.