[pmwiki-users] What to call a collection of WikiGroups

David Bessler david at davidbessler.com
Sat Aug 11 01:28:44 CDT 2007


That loses the whole "growing" theme which I really like ... OOH!  Got
it ... WikiGarden ... Not quite an industrial farm.  I'm gunna see how
it googles.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Shanley [mailto:up at upisup.com] 
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 12:48 AM
To: David Bessler
Cc: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] What to call a collection of WikiGroups

I would say:

A WikiFactory.

Many products, but all being made in one big warehouse located somewhere

in Northern Mexico.

David Bessler wrote:
> I have a collection of very different wikis which exist as individual
> WikiGroups.  I have opted to not divide them up into "Fields in a
> WikiFarm."  What is the correct terminology for a wiki which contains
a
> bunch of different WikiGroups, each of which has its own "skin" using
> PageHeader and PageFooter, and completely different functionality
using
> group config files?
>
> According to previous definitions, someone unfamiliar with PmWiki's
> inner workings, this is really a WikiFarm ... What else do you call
it?
> I mean Wikipedia is really a single Wiki.  It had one concept, and
each
> group is really there to support the Main group.  What if Wikipedia,
> Wikibooks, and wiktionary were all groups on the same installation of
> MediaWiki ... what would they call it?  I think they'd call it a farm
> no?
>
> bessler
>
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