Image via Wikipedia I love wikis. From the time I was exposed to them as part of software development efforts to Wikipedia (where I make little changes every now and them) and Citizendium, to more vertical wikis like EColiHub, the wiki has been a platform that has made a lot of sense for all kinds of activities. For Bioscreencast, the Bioscreencast Wiki has always been a key part of the site, as a general resource. An interest in Wikis as a collaborative platform was why a wiki was the most obvious platform for The Biogang.
One of my goals for 2008 had been to move away from my current shared hosting to more virtualized hosting and development environments, which is why I got rid of my desktops, and am now using my macbook pro, a slice on Slicehost and Amazon Web Services (quite literally eating my own dogfood) as my computing/hosting environment. About half way there.
In the past I had written about adopting Wikispaces as a wiki platform. I still love the platform, but things I wanted to do required hosting the wiki myself, and that led me to MindTouch Deki. It’s not quite your traditional wiki, but fits very well into what I want to use it for. That move coincided with the move to Slicehost, where the the bbgm wiki was the first thing that was set up.
It’s taken a year to really get things to a point where the original idea makes sense, but slow and (not so) steady wins the race. The original germ came from Tantek Çelik’s Wiki. Over time I hope the bbgm wiki becomes its own resource, a place that contains some of the research and ideas behind the blog as well as various things I learn from attempts at doing some science and bad programming.
The Deki platform has a RESTful API, so it can be used as more than just a content repository. Also the commenting functionality makes it possible to get feedback. If anyone is interested in contributing/editing/modifying, please let me know and I will add you as authors.
I’ve also started funneling a feed of recent changes into Friendfeed.
Next step – move bbgm to Slicehost and do more with deepaksingh.net>/a>
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I share your love of wikis and am a big fan of Mindtouch. Have you seen what they have done for TOPSAN (The Open Protein Structure Annotation Network)? It looks pretty cool and appears to be right up your alley: http://www.topsan.org/
Deki Wiki is a better choice than Wikispaces
Quite familiar with Topsan. A lot of people have had a ton of success with Wikispaces and if you want a hosted Wiki for science, I still believe it's the platform I would choose. However for a self hosted wiki, I like Deki a lot, not in the least due to the team behind it, plus it fits the kinds of things I want to achieve.
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