I am conducting an informal survey after suggestions have been raised that the real names policy unfairly discriminates against women. Please pass this on to ...
I'm involved in starting up a new wiki for the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation. My focus in it will be on practices/processes that support...
John Abbe
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Dec 30, 2003 4:49 am
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Thanks to everyone for help spreading the word (about the wiki <http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?NcddWiki> i'm helping start for the National Coalition for Dialogue...
John Abbe
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Jan 17, 2004 5:44 am
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Dear friends, Partly out of personal history (a geeky friend from school who died young was blind), as i engage again in wiki architecture i want to learn...
John Abbe
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Jan 18, 2004 10:21 pm
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Hi John: Do keep us posted on your grand opening of the NcddWiki. I would have subscribed to that page if there was an email subscription like Zwiki: ...
I'm still wondering, does anyone have any WikkiTikkiTavi experience they're willing to share? I'm a little concerned about performance, it seems slow/flaky...
John Abbe
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Jan 20, 2004 2:17 am
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Well, the NCDD wiki was found, and spammed by a robot before we even have gone public. I'm trying to nudge the team off a sudden interest in HardSecurity. At...
John Abbe
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Feb 9, 2004 9:24 pm
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I am actually in the process of designing a better surge protector on MeatballWiki. My first step is the concept of network distance: ...
... On Sensei's Library (http://senseis.xmp.net/) which is one of the largest non-Wikipedia wikis I have a 3-step meassure: * limit requests/minute: anything...
I started to write about our HardSecurity (e.g. Sensei's Library's tactics, surge protector protection against multiple IPs*) on the wiki itself and then is...
John Abbe
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Feb 17, 2004 10:57 am
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I've been working with wiki-variants for kinda a while -- kwiki came along with a few new (at the time) features, including primitive ACLs (usernames) and a...
Hi all ;) I am looking for a WikiEngine, preferably a PHP/MySql-based one, that has the ability to comment on WikiPages. I know, that sound odd. Let me ...
Wikipedia has a similar situation, where they have a 'discuss' page attached to each encyclopedia page, with the idea being to keep discussion type stuff ...
... I don't know of any others. The reason this is so rare is because many folks see this as a strength of wiki - the question or comment goes exactly where...
John Abbe
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Mar 12, 2004 3:50 am
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... Why not have the handbook as static (normal nonWiki) pages, which in the footer has a link to comment on this page. This link then takes the user to a wiki...
Hi! Tiki CMS/Groupware is very well suited for what you describe. Tiki can use many databases (including mysql) thanks the ADOdb abstraction layer. ...
... The handbook has to be editable, but not by everyone, even if everyone should be able to leave comments. cu, Sascha -- Sascha Carlin * Heinrich-Heine-Str....
We're very close to going public with the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation wiki (no, really :) ; the biggest remaining non-tech issue is...
John Abbe
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Mar 14, 2004 11:47 am
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Meatball has a multilevel copyright scheme. We begin by making minimal claims. Each page can then have a particular copyright if that's deemed necessary. So,...
That last part i wrote seemed completely opaque when i read it over so let me try again: Some people think a proprietary license indicates you will use the law...
John Abbe
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Mar 14, 2004 10:18 pm
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I feel jealous. Hm, need, need...? (fifteen minutes later) Companionship, actually companionship and meaning combined together...now the jealousy mutates to...
John Abbe
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Mar 15, 2004 7:15 am
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(too many f'ing mailing lists, not enough sleep...sorry) Life, John -- All you /\/\ John Abbe "Faith is not belief without proof, need \ /...
John Abbe
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Mar 15, 2004 3:59 pm
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I've greatly updated the dusty WikiSyntax list with a view towards a wiki parser model and then a wiki interchange format by the end of the year. Please feel...
... fyi, there've been discussions on the Interwiki list [1] regarding interchange, the following is my own personal take on these. IMHO the best bet for Wiki...
Danny writes, ... It'd be simpler to just use an <iframe> transcluding the original source then. That way the data would always be current. Really nice wikis...
Danny writes, ... Sorry, I've been up all night. I missed this part. Yes, I saw your blog entry from before. I'm of the mind to use as much of XHTML as...
Anyone know what makes a work sufficiently different that it becomes an original rather than a derivative work? ... Can you point me to what in the Berne...
John Abbe
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Mar 20, 2004 1:33 pm
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... The concept of original in copyright law is pretty loose, encompassing any creative act, no matter how small. But that isn't what you're asking. You're...
... More precisely, i'm asking what happens with wiki-style editing. For example, if i read something like this: "FooBar is a useful pattern; it helped me...