1999-06-01 09:00:00+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
I've fallen in with a bad crowd, but it's interesting: The concept is Wiki Wiki. The specific web site is the Whump discussion area. Wiki Wiki is a simple CGI script that seems like an overly complex way to build HTML that really doesn't do what you want at first, but after playing with it for a little while I'm starting to see some ways to automate large-scale collaborative web sites. The way you create new pages is by writing an InterCap word, which then has a "[?]" link after it which leads to a way to create the page for that word. After you create that word (or if you reuse a word that already exists) it links the page automatically. As I look for cleaner ways to put glossaries, collaboration and on-line editing into Newwwsboy it's giving me some directions to play with. There are some glitches to work out, simultaneous editing loses someone's changes, for instance, but the concepts are interesting for ways to automate building better hyptertext.