A brief history of wikis

2005 the year of the wiki?

 * Wikipedia articles reach ___
 * There is increasing buzz about web2.0, user experience, socialsoftware
 * San Fran Tribune(?) opens a wiki for users to express opinion about the Iraq War. It is taken offline after only 3 days because of EditWars
 * A prominant businessman sues Wikia for defamation (gaining the attn of NYTs re: wikis) due to a wikipedia article
 * First International Wiki Conference is held in Frankfurt, Germany
 * Jimmy Wales (founder of wikipedia) is named one of Time's 100 most influential people of the year

Also in 2005 (locally in Binghamton)

 * (pre-history 2004) - SOM experiments, buzz in academic circles, wikiczar role/name coined, independent experimentation in School of Management, Computing Services (3rd and 2nd floor), Library Services
 * (2005? or earlier) ResCons (Resident Consultants, student employess of Computing Services) setup a PMWiki (PHP based wiki software, uses CamelCase convention) for communications and problem resolution notes among themselves
 * binghamton.wikicities.com is launched (late Spring, very few folks contribute to the effort, little compelling content is added by the founder)
 * wiki.binghamton.edu domain is established (late August, on test linux platform)
 * late summer Wikipaltz, (student government officers of SUNY in New Paltz, NY) (in quick succession) set up a wiki page for their University, announce their wiki and news on wikinews.org, and storm their administration building
 * late October/November Bingwiki is set up on test platform (announced by word of mouth), contains most of the major features of the current Bingwiki.

2006 in Binghamton

 * Spring - Dave Comstock adds a large set of Templates onto Bingwiki (for Departmental and other Infoboxes)
 * Summer/Fall - TechFAQ (a series of questions and answers from Computing Services) is added to Bingwiki, and linked to from other main Computing Services pages
 * Fall - Statistical Programming Documentation is added to Bingwiki, used as a platform for ongoing weekly workshops (examples, exercises) (-) TMOH --Rhansen 12:50, 13 September 2006 (EDT)

Variants of the wiki software
(our current options?, besides MediaWiki)


 * Pmwiki
 * Tikiwiki
 * Twiki
 * TiddlyWiki, JotSpot
 * Writely (not a wiki), but other web 2.0 applications gain prominance on the web