'Wikis' Offer Knowledge-Sharing Online
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Taran Rampersad didn't complain when he failed to find anything on his hometown in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Instead, he simply wrote his own entry for San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. Wikipedia is unique for an encyclopedia because anybody can add, edit and even erase. And the Wikipedia is just one &#151; albeit the best known &#151; of a growing breed of Internet knowledge-sharing communities called Wikis.
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Why are there no fewer than 500 different Wiki implementations?  MoinMoin, Jot, JSPWiki, InterWiki, MediaWiki, SocialText, Twiki, Team Notepad, PhpWiki, WikiDoc, Project Forum, xWiki, AspWiki, SnipSnap, AsWiki, eGroupware Wiki, Hiki, MiniWiki, MyWiki, ParseWiki, PHP Groupware Wiki, Trac, Usemod Wiki, Wiliki, Zope zWiki... I'm sure I could go on...  Aren't most of these Open Source?  Can't some of these projects merge?  For god sake *stop it*!  The world doesn't need another wiki applications.  None of these are getting links because they don't deserve the PageRank.  Did I miss anyone?  If I did please add a comment.
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Advertising-based wiki sites are beginning to take their place alongside blogs and social networking sites as a staple of Silicon Valley business plans.
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Chinese Wikipedia users say the Web site highlights the resilience of an information control system whose reach goes beyond simple censorship.
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Reporter Ryan Singel files a 1,000-word story on the wiki phenomenon. In keeping with its spirit, we're throwing it on a wiki for collaborative editing by our readers. If you don't participate you can't complain about the results. By Wired News Staff.
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A Wikipedia company will build an Internet search engine that lets users improve on the system, the Internet encyclopedia founder said in Tokyo Thursday.  The Wikia Inc.
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Will Google ever launch Knol, its wiki-plus-Blogger experiment? It is being compared to Wikipedia and Mahalo, with a focus on the author.
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In the wacky Wiki world that is the Internet, it's hard to know which information is reliable and which isn't.
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As the world of Web 2.0 has brought many new components to the user, aside from social communities which keep emerging and showing growth, the world of the WIKI is starting to make noise.  According to Wikipedia, the WIKI means, &#8220;A wiki (sometimes wiki wiki) is a web application designed to allow multiple authors to [...]
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WikyBlog is a scalable CMS/Groupware application with an AJAX enhanced tabbed interface enabling users to view/edit multiple files within the same page.   Version 1.4 adds the Wanted Pages, What Links Here, Orphaned Files and Dead-End Files special pages. Automated tasks have also been introduced to maintain database integrity and maintain Trash. A number of other improvements and bug fixes have also been made.  WikyBlog Home:   http://www.wikyblog.com     Get WikyBlog:   https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148518&package_id=163821     WikyBlog Features:   http://www.wikyblog.com/Help/en/WikyBlog/Features
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Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, is launching an Internet search engine based on the same voluntary collaboration that drives the online encyclopedia.
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The company behind Wikipedia plans to shake up the search market by offering a collaborate search platform allowing users to improve upon the system much like they do with the popular encyclopedia Web site.
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Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt and reshape this Google-dominated market.However, people who give the search engine a test drive on Monday shouldn&#39;t expect a Google killer, because they will be looking at a project that is at a very early stage and will need participation from volunteers to grow and be refined, Wales said.In that sense,&#160;Search Wikia&#160;is expected to develop in a similar fashion to&#160;Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia written and edited by a community of volunteer collaborators who have expanded it and improved it organically over the years.&quot;Search Wikia is an extremely alpha project. It&#39;s a project to build a search engine and not a full-fledged competitor to Google yet. We want to make sure people understand that it&#39;s in its very early days,&quot; Wales said.Still, Wales fully expects Search Wikia to eventually be a better alternative to commercial search engines from the likes of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and Ask.com.&quot;I don&#39;t know how long it will take to reach industry-standard quality search results, but I&#39;d say at least two years,&quot; he said.People interested in volunteering will find a variety of options at Search Wikia, including working with the software to improve and extend it, as well as suggesting pages for the index and evaluating and rating search results.Those who register to participate in the project will join a social networking environment where they can have a list of friends, upload photos, build profiles and be notified of friends&#39; actions.Users of the search engine will be presented with what Wales calls a &quot;mini article&quot; at the top of the results list. This can be a photo, a text definition, an external link or whatever else has been determined is the best answer to that particular query.Below the &quot;mini article&quot; will be the list of results, picked from the Search Wikia index, which on Monday will have anywhere between 50 million and 100 million Web pages. Wales concedes that number is small, but said it will continue to grow over time.Users will be able to rank the quality of individual search results, and Search Wikia will factor in that feedback when solving future queries. &quot;That way, people will be able to influence the algorithmic search results,&quot; he said.Those who try to abuse the system for, say, search engine spamming purposes, are bound to be quickly noticed by administrators and other community members, and they will swiftly be blocked and banned, Wales said.Initially, people will only be able to do general Web searches, but the plan is to add tabs for image and news searches later. Likewise, Search Wikia&#39;s index will only contain links to English-language Web sites at first, but more languages will be supported progressively. &quot;The goal is to be in as many languages as possible as fast as possible,&quot; Wales said.Improvements to Search Wikia will be added on a rolling basis. &quot;It&#39;s release early, release often. We want to be constantly updating the software every day,&quot; he said. Search Wikia will be supported by advertising revenue, but it hasn&#39;t yet been determined how.Search Wikia&#39;s software and data, including its Web crawl index, will be freely available to anyone wishing to use them to create their own engine or search application, Wales said.&quot;With an open-source search engine, lots of people will download and use our software to compete with the major players. We think we have a chance of actually restructuring the industry to be much more competitive,&quot; Wales said.In the past, Wales has said that search isn&#39;t a &quot;defensible business&quot; because it&#39;s easy for users to switch among providers, so democratizing search is a good thing for all companies in this market. What is a defensible business is the ad brokerage that rides on top of the search engine activity, and that&#39;s where a company such as Google should focus, according to Wales.Search Wikia and Wikipedia operate under two organizations that were both founded by Wales: Wikia Inc. is a commercial, for-profit company with about 40 full-time employees. Wales is its board chairman. The Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia, is a nonprofit entity, and Wales is its chairman emeritus.Wikia Inc. and Wikimedia operate independently. Search Wikia is one of several projects and services at Wikia Inc.
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People search that connects users to chat to find answers.
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Jimmy Wales, cofounder of Wikia, launched a new project to address what he says are the shortcomings of current search engines. But one analyst said he isn't so sure Wales' efforts do much to improve the current model.
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The online community is introducing tools for developing games, media-sharing features and other programs that better integrate with the Internetâs leading social-networking site.
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After almost two months of deliberation and voting, the Wikimedia Foundation has now officially launched the Wikinews project in English and German editions. More languages will follow soon. Wikinews aims to be to news media what Wikipedia is to encyclopedias: a free, comprehensive and, eventually, reliable source of information, collaboratively created by volunteers around the planet.  Wikinews explicitly allows original reporting, making it somewhat similar to Indymedia, while adhering to a strict Neutral Point of View policy.    Read on to find out what the Wikimedia community has accomplished so far, what challenges it faces, and how Wikinews can become successful.