Brief Summary
A UtilityWiki is a wiki of general public utility.
Description
The vast majority of wiki are not utility wiki -- instead, each one focuses on its own specific field of interest.
An internet-savvy individual knows all the utility wiki (the same for every person), plus the wiki dedicated to her field(s) of interest (which vary from person to person).
More Info
Wiki of general public utility include:
- Wikipedia - encyclopedia in wiki form
- Wiktionary - dictionary in wiki form
- this Wiklossary
- WikiIndex - list of all wiki
- AboutUs - a wiki page for every website
Discussion
wiki for purposes other than communication
There are two definitions of UtilityWiki:
- a wiki of general public utility
- a wiki for purposes other than communication
Wiki for purposes other than communication may include text warehouses, image stores, or private contacts databases, kept in wiki.
That second definition looks like it also includes PersonalWiki? ( Wiki:PersonalWiki ) such as PersonalInformationWiki? ( http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiAsPim ) . -- DavidCary
How do you feel about removing the 2nd definition- "a wiki for purposes other than communication?"
When I made up the term "UtilityWiki," I originally meant both. But nobody knows about text warehousing, and nobody knows about image stores. The additional baggage seems unnecessary.
Let's just make it the first term.
-- LionKimbro
OK, done. But we should move this list of "other kinds of wiki" to some other page -- where?
So do we need to make up a new term for "a wiki for purposes other than communication" ?
Or is it better just to make a page listing the types of wiki (what to name it?) that lists
- UtilityWiki
- Public single-topic Communication Wiki
- Private Communication Wiki
- text warehousing, image stores
- PersonalWiki?
-- DavidCary
(to WikiOnWiki ? -- DavidCary)
general non-wiki utilities
- Looking stuff up on the web: Google
- Looking stuff up in Usenet News: Google
- buying and selling used stuff: eBay
- Finding out who is behind a particular website: http://www.internic.net/whois.html
These aren't wiki, so I wouldn't include them either.
One day, there will be a wiki like wiklossary, but probably more tutorial-ish, for description of using basic Internet resources- google, IRC, usenet, stuff like that. But this is not that place, I don't feel.
-- LionKimbro
General non-wiki utilities aren't completely on-topic here at WikLossary?. But until I find some other wiki where they are more on-topic, I suppose this is the best place to list them.
-- DavidCary
So is http://constantsun.com/minitext/ a kind of "text warehousing" utility?