Changes: User/Evan Edwards

  Changes from revision 39 to 40.

Howdy! I'm Evan "JabberWokky" Edwards, and this is my little project.

I live in State College, Pennsylvania, but before that lived in Davis, California. That previous home is important to note, as I was one of the early editors on [http://www.daviswiki.org DavisWiki], which grew to become the largest wiki for a small town, and the largest English language community wiki on the planet. This pretty much tied into the last decade or so of what I had been doing, as I am a co-owner of a publishing company, OnePaper, which was founded to provide publishing options for small towns. Interestingly, OnePaper came out of a project I was working on in 1997 which was an interactive community edited website similar to what wikis are today. Ideas always cycle, don't they?

Much of ClickWiki came out of wanting to create a super flexible wiki framework. Looking around at all the wikis and CMS systems out there, I noted that they were either inflexible or horrifically difficult to configure. Wikis simplify the use, but are a pain to extend, at least not without breaking the ease of use and looking like you've slapped something onto the side.

Having decided to create a framework, I resolved to keep it simple, modular, and use as many open standards as possible without ignoring the reality of the internet. In other words, I'm not locking out mp3 files just because they aren't open. Videos are (with the default module) converted to flvs because that provides the best user experience. Meanwhile, accessibility and multi browser support is as close to the w3c recommendations as I can get it. The base install conforms to standards as best as it can without doing so in such a slavish manner it excludes real world users.

  Revision 39.

Howdy!

I live in State College, Pennsylvania, but before that lived in Davis, California. That previous home is important to note, as I was one of the early editors on [http://www.daviswiki.org DavisWiki], which grew to become the largest wiki for a small town, and the largest English language community wiki on the planet. This pretty much tied into the last decade or so of what I had been doing, as I am a co-owner of a publishing company, OnePaper, which was founded to provide publishing options for small towns. Interestingly, OnePaper came out of a project I was working on in 1997 which was an interactive community edited website similar to what wikis are today. Ideas always cycle, don't they?

Much of ClickWiki came out of wanting to create a super flexible wiki framework. Looking around at all the wikis and CMS systems out there, I noted that they were either inflexible or horrifically difficult to configure. Wikis simplify the use, but are a pain to extend, at least not without breaking the ease of use and looking like you've slapped something onto the side.

Having decided to create a framework, I resolved to keep it simple, modular, and use as many open standards as possible without ignoring the reality of the internet. In other words, I'm not locking out mp3 files just because they aren't open. Videos are (with the default module) converted to flvs because that provides the best user experience. Meanwhile, accessibility and multi browser support is as close to the w3c recommendations as I can get it. The base install conforms to standards as best as it can without doing so in such a slavish manner it excludes real world users.

  Revision 40.

Howdy! I'm Evan "JabberWokky" Edwards, and this is my little project.

I live in State College, Pennsylvania, but before that lived in Davis, California. That previous home is important to note, as I was one of the early editors on [http://www.daviswiki.org DavisWiki], which grew to become the largest wiki for a small town, and the largest English language community wiki on the planet. This pretty much tied into the last decade or so of what I had been doing, as I am a co-owner of a publishing company, OnePaper, which was founded to provide publishing options for small towns. Interestingly, OnePaper came out of a project I was working on in 1997 which was an interactive community edited website similar to what wikis are today. Ideas always cycle, don't they?

Much of ClickWiki came out of wanting to create a super flexible wiki framework. Looking around at all the wikis and CMS systems out there, I noted that they were either inflexible or horrifically difficult to configure. Wikis simplify the use, but are a pain to extend, at least not without breaking the ease of use and looking like you've slapped something onto the side.

Having decided to create a framework, I resolved to keep it simple, modular, and use as many open standards as possible without ignoring the reality of the internet. In other words, I'm not locking out mp3 files just because they aren't open. Videos are (with the default module) converted to flvs because that provides the best user experience. Meanwhile, accessibility and multi browser support is as close to the w3c recommendations as I can get it. The base install conforms to standards as best as it can without doing so in such a slavish manner it excludes real world users.