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WikiIndex currently indexes 4375 wiki. Of those, there are 237 multilingual wiki. The languages used by at least 10 wiki (counting both monolingual and multilingual wiki) are:

• 3107 English
• 439 German
• 176 French
• 75 Spanish
• 47 Dutch
• 41 Polish
• 41 Japanese
• 34 Russian
• 31 Chinese
• 30 Italian
• 29 Swedish
• 27 Portuguese
• 15 Finnish
• 13 Hebrew
• 12 Hungarian
• 12 Danish
• 10 Norwegian

These counts only include wiki that WikiIndex currently indexes.
There are many, many other public wiki that haven’t yet been mentioned on WikiIndex — please help us add them.

This weblog post is a little more personal than my other post

The process of organizing the wiki community - already parts of it that are organized, but for the most part, it is a bunch of interesting people doing interesting things.

“The Universal “Wiki” Edit Button leads to a page where you can collaborate, not just comment, commit or comply.” — Ward Cunningham, Inventor of Wiki

Personally, I am most excited by the Oddmuse implementation and am looking forward to extending that wiki out to more people’s attention.

It was very exciting to see wiki developers and wiki hosts extend their wikis into this idea and add themselves to the list.

All in all, this has been a fun few weeks, culminating in an exciting 30 hours or so. As with wiki, I look forward to what others will make of this.

“The amazing quality of many wikis, especially wikipedia, makes people afraid to contribute. But wikis want you to edit them. This button is meant as an invitation for surfers to contribute as much or as little as they want.” — Ehud Lamm

“He emphasized that the strength of a resource depends on the strength of the community.”

 

Library 2.0 : Chad Boeninger - Wikis in Libraries

Chad Boeninger - Wikis in Libraries : Enhancing Services, Promoting Sources, and Building Community

Chad started off with a show of hands - what type of librarian’s were in the audience, including media specialists.

WikiIndex gets a mention in this pretty nice write up about what wikis are.

via LibrarySupportStaff.org

WikiIndex was in what looks to be a high profile weblog today!

j’s scratchpad: SLA: Mary Ellen Bates’ Searching the New Web

I *loved* the reference to the new Web, instead of the dreaded Web 2.0 (I am still waiting for Web 1.0)

Added a .com instead of my preffered .org, but that is ok! It redirects now, so all is good.

A wonderful event in Montreal. Much love and respect to the folks that put the work into making this event great. Also to all the people that showed up to energize another unconference focused on wiki and the wiki way.

Notes to come, but here is a video (it would be great if, through the lazy web, folks would translate the english to french and french to english, so the next revision would have subtitles.)

Looks to be a bunch of cool ideas to emerge from the event: RoCoCoCamp.info/FutureChanges

More info at RoCoCoCamp.info and AboutUs.org/RoCoCoCamp.info

old post…

“Eugeen Kim”:http://www.eekim.com/blog/2006/09/27/intelligencefuture2#nidL8M has much experience with the wiki / military intelligence communities.
Personally, last year at the first “WikiSym”:http://www.wikiindex.org/WikiSym2005 I had a lengthy conversation from a tech guy from the Navy. His boss told him to come find out what all the wiki craze was about.

A year later we have the “Intellipedia”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellipedia wiki with it’s own version of the “Barnstar”:http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?BarnStar

Check out the “Wired.com”:http://AboutUs.org/Wired.com article “U.S. Adds Wiki to Spy Arsenal”:http://wired.com/news/wireservice/0,72053-0.html?tw=wn_index_12

At OSCamp this morning, I spent some time with Ethan McCutchen and Lewis Hoffman learning more about the Hooze.com and wagging. Hooze is focused on consumers and in particular, helping them create a shared and voice which may point companies in a directions that are more aligned with their consumers. Imagine having access to a huge collaboratively built database of consumer experience right at the point of purchase — that would be valuable.

The underlying technology is a wiki of sorts, but because it leverages tagging and “cards”, they call it “wagging” (wiki+tagging). Cute. Not to mention that it has the “tail wagging the dog” feeling which sends a good grass roots message. In the wagging environment, each tag you create has a snippet of information attached to it, like a card or a page. But the power is created when you combine tags. So if there was a tag for “Ray King” and a tag for “Razr”, then I would naturally put my experience with Razr’s on that page. Once there is a critical mass of this information, then looking up any topic brings up a rich subset of other related topics. I look forward to watching this get off the ground. There’s more information on wagging at their system site, WagN.

WikiIndex link to article

From [[Wikinews]] comes thin story:
: [[Wikipedia:Yell|Yell]], the worlds biggest yellow pages publisher, today threatened to shut down [[Yellowikis]], the wiki based yellow pages directory.

: They accused Yellowikis co-founders Paul Youlten and Rosa Blaus (his 15 year-old daughter) of “misrepresentation”, “passing off” and suggested that using the name Yellowikis could “constitute an ‘instrument of fraud’”

: Yell are demanding that Paul and Rosa Close down the website, transfer the domain names to Yell and agree to pay damages to Yell for loss of profits. (Yell made $2.4bn in 2005, Yellowikis made a loss of $500 which was used to print t-shirts promoting Yellowikis at the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt)

”’editors note, does anyone know how to make WordPress correctly format MediaWiki markup?”’

An excellent article, The Independent: New Media: Who are the real winners now we’ve all gone Wiki-crazy?

What wiki does for its users is what blogging did for web publishing: it provides an easy, quick, means to an end. In the words of Ward Cunningham, an author and an inventor of wiki technology: “Wiki does for knowledge what the assembly line does for material.”

Refreshing to see others with the hopeful vision, nice work Ana Kronschnabel and Thomas Rawlings

This article from Asbury Park Press makes an interesting point about how companies will have to manage their PR in the “free-wheeling online world of Wikipedia.” It seems to me the writer either doesn’t understand wiki or is just choosing to focus on a large website, Wikipedia.

What is more interesting to me is what companies and governmental organizations are going to have to do, or not have to do, in a “free-wheeling online world of” wiki.

They mention Eli Lilly and Co. and the edits to that page on Wikipedia, but what I can imagine is companies having to figure out what to do with an entire wiki dedicated to the pharmaceutical industry or even to Eli Lilly and Co. itself. This forces transparency. This forces companies to change the way the operate their business. (for example see what SourceWatch is doing in terms of think tanks and the like.) Of course this all centers on the idea that people will embrace the simplistic self organization of wiki, which I excited to see. (see Why wiki is good for work)