2006: Wiki
- Wiki-Wiki: The name of a transit bus at Honolulu Airport
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- Meaning Quick-Quick
- 10+ years in Gestation as an authoring environment
- Many flavours of Wiki inhibited its uptake
- But a Wiki Ecosystem did gradually develop (iPod!)
- Wikipedia, 15 January, 2001 as a collaborative, communal, OPEN project
- Now WikiBooks, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, WikiSource, etc?
- Choice of platform: MediaWiki, used for Wikipedia
- Community: The Mediawiki chemistry community is highly active
- The Jmol Community meets the Mediawiki community
- The Semantic (Mediawiki) Community: Chemistry NEEDS semantics!
- And was NOT driven by:
- Local support services: "We do not support Wikis here"
© H. S. Rzepa, 2007.