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Level42:
This is great ! Actualy found some really useful things I hadn't found before !

I added some info about removing those irritating pop-up bubbles in XP about screen resolutions not being optimal etc.
Please remember English is not my native language so correct/edit at will ;)

Taborious:
I made my first wiki edit/addition today. I added DrewKaree CD ripping tutorial to the site hope I did it correct; looks ok.

Mr. Dude:
This is a great thing for the community.  Very cool!

MiKman:
For the uninformed can someone give the basic idea/rundown of what wiki is and how it works, etc?

Edit:
Nevermind I found it :-)  big "L"

Felsir:

--- Quote from: MiKman on March 29, 2006, 11:00:17 pm ---For the uninformed can someone give the basic idea/rundown of what wiki is and how it works, etc?

Edit:
Nevermind I found it :-)  big "L"

--- End quote ---

Even though you found it, there are probably other people who don't (yet) know reading this.

Basically a Wiki is based on the principle "everyone knows something, together we know a lot". A Wiki is a site that gathers knowledge on a subject (or many subjecs as with Wikipedia). Everyone who knows something about the subject can add or edit the texts on the pages. This way the common knowledge will grow. This is mainly what wiki's are about.

Some people will say: "Hey,if anyone can edit this, won't this be vandalised?"
The wiki community keeps watch over articles to make sure the content is still correct. This is based on the human principle that everyone is curious to what happened to the texts he or she added. So the people who often contribute to the wiki will look at the articles they contributed to and in this way errors etc are quickly noticed.

A wiki is the complete opposite of a system where all documents are to be approved first. The latter will probably produce better documentation but tends to be extremely slow. The wiki method provides a quick way to update information, and it is exactly this strength that makes the content almost on par with the 'approval' method since errors are quickly corrected.

So far, Wikipedia is proof that the wiki concept works (researchers compared a bunch of wikipedia articles to the Encyclopedia Brittanica and found the content of equal quality).

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