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Technical Aspects

Not only do wikis embody Tim Berners-Lee's vision of a read-write web, they also represent an ad-hoc form of semantic Web. As my friend Alex Bolboacă helped me realize, the average wiki naturally and implicitly supports a number of semantic relationships among articles:

  1. is_related_to - via ordinary links
  2. is_child_of / is_parent_of - via categories
  3. is_synonym_of - via redirects
  4. (um, was there anything else, Alex? I forget)

In addition, PmWiki supports some unique ways to organize information, namely trails and page lists (among others). I suspect that makes PmWiki a good candidate for an e-learning website, but even I found uses for these features.

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