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

greywulf

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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

Alex Schroeder

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More thoughts: 2019-07-14 Blogging Spirit.

2019-07-14 Blogging Spirit

– Alex Schroeder 2019-07-14 20:54 UTC