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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
October 21, 2005
This week, visit the latest addition to the Amateur Radio Internet experience: the ham radio wiki.
What's a wiki?
A wiki is a type of webblog or blog, for short. It differs from a traditional blog in that it permits and encourages everyone to change and augment it in order to improve it, whereas one person or a specific group writes a traditional blog. (Visit the Wiki Web site for more information.)
 HamWiki, Ham Radio's Wiki Elmer is an Amateur Radio wiki that is now online. |
The first wiki appeared in 1995 and it begat hundreds of other wikis. (Go to SwitchWiki for a list of every public wiki.) Perhaps, the most famous wiki is Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, which at this moment has 781,014 articles in its English version. (I refer to it often and have mentioned it here a few times.)
Now, there is an Amateur Radio wiki: HamWiki, Ham Radio's Wiki Elmer, which is run by Jason Legate, W6SN, and Trevor Raty, KG6MDW.
HamWiki went live earlier this month, so it has some maturing ahead of it. Despite its young age, HamWiki already has content that you can view, edit, and augment. So, have at it!
Until next week, keep on surfin'.
Editor' note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, remembers when
encyclopedias were sold door-to-door and occupied two or three shelves of a
bookshelf. To contact Stan, send e-mail or visit his Web site where you can leave him a note.
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