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| + | Swift Valley Coach Travel provides luxury coach for hire, bus and mini bus hire for all occasions throughout the Loughborough, Birmingham Airport and Stratford on Avon. We provide services for all occasions, including private coach hire, corporate and business coach hire, holidays and family occasions. Our coaches can cater for both large and small groups. They have been designed in a luxurious look which can be easily recognized by stylish and comfortable interiors. We ensure you have a relaxing and enjoyable journey. We conduct a regular inspection of our coaches to keep them safe and in excellent working order. |
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| − | [[Ward Cunningham]] invented [[wiki]] in 1995.
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| − | * '''WikiWiki''' is Hawaiian for ''quick.''
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| − | * [[Ward Cunningham|Ward]] wanted to ''quickly'' be able to share his ideas with colleagues easily over the internet, so he started the [[C2.com|Portland Pattern Repository]].
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| − | Ward's original '''[[WikiWiki|wiki]]''', The Portland Pattern Repository (WikiWikiWeb) on [[C2.com|C2]] (named after his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham) was created to discuss patterns in software languages.
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| − | His idea was to be able to share information and ideas with people over the internet, quickly and easily, using the same technology software engineers had been using to "build" their releases (a "repository" is just a more technical kind of '''wiki'''). [[Ward Cunningham|Ward]] realized that using '''wiki''' to edit text would be different from using "repositories" to edit code, even if the technology were nearly the same. In code, [[namespace]]s are very carefully managed and controlled. In most writing or texts, though, it's not controlled.
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| − | [[Ward Cunningham|Ward]] knew that there would be thousands, maybe millions, of other pages to link to, not just a few dozen.
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| − | His big improvement was to make it much easier to link to internal pages than by using [[HTML]] "A" links. Instead, users could write links by [[CamelCase]] (sometimes referred to as [[WikiLink]]s) and more recently like <nowiki>[[this]]</nowiki>. Today, hundreds of thousands of people create '''[[wiki]]''' pages, which anyone can do.
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| − | The [[C2.com|Portland Pattern Repository]] quickly became the place that people gathered to discuss the benefits & potential of wikis, despite the stated goal of discussing patterns in programming languages.
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| − | In April 2000 Sunir Shah and community members extracted much of the wiki on wiki discussion on [[C2.com|c2]] and created [[Meatball:MeatballWiki|MeatballWiki]] in order to discuss "collaborative hypermedia". [[Meatball:MeatballWiki|MeatballWiki]] remains one of the most respected active wiki sites.
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| − | ==[[TheWikiWay|The Wiki Way]]==
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| − | [[AboutUs]], and arguably all public wikis, work to build vibrant [[Community| communities]] comprised of individual members freely electing to participate. These users give, in essence, an enthusiastic nod to the vision and limitless potential of an open edit website. Members uphold the covenant, to contribute constructive edits, promote the sharing of knowledge and grow the [[collaborating_to_build_the_commons| commons]].
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| − | The momentum of the community acting in concert works to insulate and preserve the environment from destructive influences, ideally making violations of the ''Contract'', rare occurrences easily squelched by the [[Community| community]] through self-regulation and a desire to preserve the interests of the group.
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| − | ==Wikipedia==
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| − | [[Wikipedia]] was started on January 15, 2001 by [[Wikipedia:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] and [[Wikipedia:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] and is an online encyclopedia that allows anyone to write on topics of their choice rather than relying on experts to write articles.
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| − | :''"Wikipedia has the potential to be the greatest effort in collaborative knowledge gathering the world has ever known, and it may well be the greatest effort in voluntary collaboration of any kind." ~ [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia Marshall Poe]''
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| − | The main tenet of [[Wikipedia]] is its "openness": The software itself is free and open content, the membership is open, meaning that anyone who has Internet access can contribute.
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| − | [[Wikipedia]] relies on peer-review and recent changes patrolling to create articles that owe their veracity to community approval. Mistakes are made, found & corrected. The information commons is being created and disseminated by a group of volunteers using free and open content.
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| − | ==WikiLeaks ==
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| − | [[WikiLeaks.org|WikiLeaks]] is the next wiki to start to enter into everyone's consciousness. This is good, because then we can start talking about wiki and not having people automatically think [[Wikipedia]]. WikiLeaks started out as a wiki, but Jullian Assange got frustrated that not enough people were participating with it. So they switched to different software, many now think a wiki now would serve WikiLeaks well.
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Swift Valley Coach Travel provides luxury coach for hire, bus and mini bus hire for all occasions throughout the Loughborough, Birmingham Airport and Stratford on Avon. We provide services for all occasions, including private coach hire, corporate and business coach hire, holidays and family occasions. Our coaches can cater for both large and small groups. They have been designed in a luxurious look which can be easily recognized by stylish and comfortable interiors. We ensure you have a relaxing and enjoyable journey. We conduct a regular inspection of our coaches to keep them safe and in excellent working order.
