October 26, 2004

Wikinews

Wikimedia has put up a proposal and voting page for Wikinews, a service to neutrally summarize and report on current events.

We seek to create a free source of news, where every human being is invited to contribute reports about events large and small, either from direct experience, or summarized from elsewhere.

While Wikinews aims to be a useful resource of its own, it will also provide an alternative to proprietary news agencies like the Associated Press or Reuters; that is, it will allow independent media outfits to get a high quality feed of news free of charge to complement their own reporting. Thanks to copyleft, anyone can create their own free news source - even a non-neutral one - on the basis of our work. Even if our articles will initially be few, they will be free, permanently available and not require registration before reading. Source: Wikimedia.

March 31, 2004

Platypus Wiki

Platypus is a java-based wiki which uses Jena 2 (by way of Danny Ayers).

I downloaded the war and got it running. Note: Platypus required Tomcat 5 on my Mac.

One killer feature is global links, a hash of global names and links. That should save some time. Namespaces are designated in editing with a swebbish colon, as opposed to the usual multicasing. The most interesting aspect is the subject-predicate-object metadata, as well as editable N3 and RDF for each wiki page. Cool!

March 30, 2004

Corporate-Safe Wikiing

Meet Confluence, a wiki that any mid-level manager can feel safe using (by way of Blahsploitation).

Confluence, the professional J2EE wiki, is a knowledge management tool designed to make it easy for a team to share information with each other, and with the world. Source