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Other Uses for Wiki Software?

Posted by Cliff on from the unintended-applications-for-software dept.

CodeMonkey22 asks: "The much-discussed Wikipedia could be considered the quintessential definition of what Wiki software is capable of. More recently, however, a plethora of specialized reference websites, such as Wookieepedia (Star-Wars) and the Marvel Database (Marvel Comics), have popped up. This got me to thinking, are websites the only viable use for wiki software? Working in an IT department, the first alternative that came to my mind was an intranet knowledge-base. TWiki, for instance, touts itself as 'an Enterprise Collaboration Platform'. What other uses could take advantage of Wiki? What changes would be needed to make it more applicable in other areas of use?"

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  1. Re:CVS, anyone? by elmegil · · Score: 2, Funny
    The only difference is that they provide a nice LaTeX-like syntax and a pretty front-end with an on-the-fly interpreted syntax.

    Oh well, if THAT's all....

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  2. Re: Congress needs a Wiki for Legislation! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Then, I think that Wikis would make a wonderful forum for developing legislation. Especially those 400+ page variety bills that seem to contain all sorts of pork.

    Yeah, they could make life easy for the legislators by providing templates such as -

    {{pork|money for my district}}

    {{drillANWR}} (for Ted Stevens personal use)

    etc.

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