Re: Conlang Wiki
| From: | Iain E. Davis <feaelin@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 10, 2003, 15:26 |
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> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:33:02PM -0400, David J. Peterson wrote:
> > I don't get it--at all. What is this?
> From: Amanda Babcock
> A Wiki is a sort of web page free-for-all. Any visitor to
> the web site can modify it. For example, when I got there
> there was only the front page. I clicked on "ConLangs" and
> got the notification that there was no "ConLangs" page yet,
> so I created one by clicking "Edit this page". Someone else
> has since gone in and extended the ConLangs page to have more
> data (and links) in it.
I always thought of "Wiki" as a "User-Extendable Online Encyclopedia". It's
easy to correct or update information because everyone can contribute. For
example, I spotted a missing word in a sentence, so I went ahead and added
it. :)
Does the engine not handle html entities correctly? I noticed a page that
someone had typed the entities in, but the entity code is displayed, rather
than the entity...for example: ̄ on page:
http://talideon.com/concultures/wiki/?doc=OrthographicallyConfusing.
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