2010-04-23 Blog, Wiki, Bliki
At the moment Wikipedia says that Oddmuse can be used as a Bliki. That’s what this site is: A wiki, used like a blog. If you look at my SiteMap, you’ll see a lot of pages that are of no use anymore. Slowly, this site has lost the wiki nature and turned into a blog.
- I feel free to make lots of minor edits to existing blog pages.
- I have access to the history of a page (and to the text of old revisions if changed within the last two weeks).
- Internal linking is easy using wiki syntax.
- Wiki markup is easier than writing HTML.
- I guess that by now I wouldn’t feel bad about using a WYSIWYG editor on the wiki as long as it still allows me to use wiki links. Except that most of them take a long time to load. That sucks.
- I still find Oddmuse to be very easy to hack.
- Comment pages still don’t work like they do on other blogs.
- But on the plus side, everybody can edit their comments and remove old stuff.
- But I have a module that does email notification. Let me know if you’ve tried it and hated it!
I think I’m still happy with things as they are.
#Wikis #Bliki #Blogs
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Given the choice, I’d rather use Oddmuse than a pure blogging engine like Wordpress. Using wiki markup is second nature and much easier than messing with a GUI text box or CTRL key combinations, and I really miss a wiki’s proper version control. Add in the easy interlinking of pages, and..... well, I’m preaching to the converted, I know.
On the downside, Wordpress meets a blog reader’s expectations, whereas a wiki is more intimidating to the casual user. People know what to expect from a Wordpress blog and that translates to more comments and more pageviews. Add in Akismet’s rock-solid antispam mechanism, and it’s hard to fault.
And that’s why I use Wordpress to blog, and Oddmuse for my private projects. I have the best of both worlds 😀
– greywulf 2010-04-23 11:51 UTC
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I really should do some usability testing to discover what the actual expectations are. 🙂
– Alex Schroeder 2010-04-23 15:33 UTC
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More thoughts: 2019-07-14 Blogging Spirit.
– Alex Schroeder 2019-07-14 20:54 UTC