Re: RE: Thoughts on Twiki

On Die, 2002-12-17 at 02:58, Chih-Chao Lam wrote:

> Twiki's link syntax can be at:
> http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingRules
> and is similar but not identical to Wikipedia.

Alas, from the description it looks like TWiki is inherently tied to
CamelCase -- even when you create a free link, it links to a CamelCase
page.  [[foo bar]] points to FooBar and so on. As a result, you get ugly
CamelCase links rendered all over the place -- just browse TWiki and you
see stuff like "TWikiUpgradeTo01Dec2001." Ugh. I also find it notable
that the TWiki wiki has about one change per day -- my own small
infoAnarchy wiki is larger than that.

Choosing free links, and providing a very easy user interface (without
sign on) is the secret of Wikipedia's success. That's why they have
nearly 100,000 articles, that's why people from all fields of expertise
participate. CamelCase is the reason wikis never really caught on when
they were invented in 1995. It's too bad that OSAF will repeat this
original mistake.

Regards,

Erik
-- 
FOKUS - Fraunhofer Insitute for Open Communication Systems
Project BerliOS - http://www.berlios.de

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