On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 12:03:51PM -0700, Jack Park wrote: (01)
> I ran the NexistWiki 1.0 experiment long enough to conclude (rightly or
> wrongly) that WikiWords *as emergent links* was, in my view, a bad idea.
> That conclusion is biased by the nature of the NexistWiki experiment, which
> was and remains an experiment in building knowledge bases (read: topic
> maps) out of content provided by users. The experiment is fairly anal
> about the notion of collecting relationships between content elements.
>
> My evaluation of what was growing at 1.0 led me to conclude that, while the
> Wiki page handler's ability to grab WikiWords and turn them into hrefs was
> cute, powerful, and obviously a good idea in the main, it interfered
> greatly with the idea that one should actually identify the nature of the
> relationship which animates the new link. (02)
You seem to be saying that WikiWords discourage link typing, and I
would agree with that assessment. But, you don't disallow non-typed
links either. Why are HTML anchor tags acceptable, but not WikiWords? (03)
You also say that WikiWords "as emergent links" are a bad idea. What
do you mean by "emergent links"? (04)
I'm not disagreeing with your design decision, I'm just seeking
clarification. I'm also curious: Is a Wiki without WikiWords still a
Wiki? Or is NexistWiki due for a new name? :-) (05)
-Eugene (06)
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