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  The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web, BoLeuf & WardCunningham Support-Website für das Buch: Die aktuellen Sources (korrigiert gegenüber der beiliegenden CD): Die Buchbeschreibung von Addison-Wesley:

Von der Vorderseite des Buches:

  • Coauthor content on the Web using a standard browser
  • Build Internet communities through self-organizing and organic growth of content
  • Support idea-keeping for the connected community
  • Leverage your searchable notes with resources only a click away

Widmung:

We dedicate this book to the
thousands of authors that have
made Wiki an interesting place
to visit.
-- Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham


Meine Rezension bei amazon.com. -- HelmutLeitner

The bible for the wiki community

This book describes the technology and culture of the wiki open web authoring system. The CD-ROM contains all the necessary software to install a wiki and one third of the book explains how the software does its magic and how it might be expanded to do even more. The first part contains a step-by-step introduction to the wiki ideas and culture and the last part tells about the wiki experiences in the corporate world and at universities.

The book is written extremely well and easy to follow, sometimes even entertaining. It touches all important aspects of installing and maintaining a wiki server and of running a wiki community. During the last 8 months I did many of the things described based on my own explorations and using a different software. This books would have saved me many weeks of labour. I may lack objectivity, but this book is bound to become the bible for the wiki world.

What's to criticize? First: there is almost no hype in this book, too little for the lots of enthusiastic users out there. Second: the book offers a baseline system, some clones and lots of optional extensions and invites to experiment. I think that most readers would prefer a full-featured proven standard system out of the box. Third: it's conservative approach about some features - like edit conflict resolution or page deletion - shows how quickly things are moving.

Is this criticism correct? I don't know, you decide. To me, it's an excellent book. It's the important, long awaited reference. It's the landmark showing that the wiki is about to change from an insider tip to an established technology. It clearly deserves 5 (*****) stars. If you are interested in wiki, online communities or knowledge management at all, you must know this book.


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