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Sep
20
(2004)
When I implemented an experimental Wiki integration with CAREO, I imagined it would be simplest to just tie a Wiki page to each URL, on demand. By extension, that model could have provided a Wiki page for every URL on the internet.
Wikalong does this for all pages in Firefox – promising to become a public, shared margin for the internet.
I’m not a Firefox user (partial to OmniWeb 5 or Safari) but this sounds very cool. Kind of like a Wikipedia for the web…
UPDATE: Just installed Firefox 1.0, and the Wikalong sidebar. That’s freaking AWESOME! I think it’s probably got some serious room for vandalism – had flashbacks of ThirdVoice – the IE plugin that let you leave notes on pages for others to see. First thing that happened with that one was the defacing of Microsoft’s website – only visible via the plugin. This seems more benign – notes are only in the sidebar, not mingled with page content. This could have some excellent implications for teaching/learning with online stuff… Mods of the Wikalong plugin to use a private or institutional wiki for courses etc… Going to have to look into that…
Thanks for giving Wikalong a try!
I’m glad you liked it. Private Wikalong Wikis are in fact they are usable but I have yet to publish the documentation to “roll your own” wiki. (There are some backend hacks that need to be applied, all Perl Modules).
There is a preference option for the plugin that lets you define a custom wiki. In the future, you will be able to add to a list of wikis, which will create a pull down in the sidebar itself so that you can switch back and forth between different wikis, som public, some private, etc.
Thanks for the writeup!
John