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A Bliki (also known as a WikiLog, WikiWeblog, Wikiblog, or Bloki), is a blog with wiki support. This means that after (or before) an article is posted to the blog, it can be edited, either by anyone or by some group of authorized users.
This combination of the two Internet technologies was conceived with the purpose of making the popular blogging experience more interactive. Another possible effect (especially for news blogs) is the improvement of the quality and accuracy of the articles posted by giving more people the ability to edit them. However, trolling may become a problem in such systems.
The main advantage of combining the two technologies, however, is in leveraging the utility of wikis at making connections between ideas; this effectively turns blog posts into proper wiki articles, but maintains the former's immediate nature. Thus, a bliki can evolve as a whole over time, and past information is not merely jettisoned into the aether and lost in the shuffle.
External links
- Example personal bliki sites:
- Rui Carmo's extreme example of blog/wiki integration at The Tao of Mac (http://the.taoofmac.com)
- Martin Fowler's Bliki (http://martinfowler.com/bliki/)
- Wiremine.org (http://www.wiremine.org), created by Brian Tol.
- Free and open source bliki engines:
- Vanilla (http://www.vanillasite.at/), the first known bliki, created by Christian Langreiter in 1999 using REBOL.
- mUnky-bliki (http://www.munkys.com/bliki), written in PHP/Mysql currently under constant development (created by Dovid Kopel).
- SnipSnap (http://snipsnap.org/space/Bliki), feature-rich, inspired by Vanilla, implemented in Java.
- pimki (http://pimki.rubyforge.org), a full wiki-based PIM, containing a Bliki component. Written in Ruby, based on Instiki (http://instiki.org)
- Cardboard (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cardboard) is an open-source PHP/MySQL bliki, currently alpha version quality
- Kwiki (http://www.kwiki.org) is an open source bliki known for its fast install and extensibility
- Fromage (http://fromage.sf.net) is an open source bliki which uses textfiles to store the data. No official release yet, but you can get the source from the CVS server (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=96977).
- TWiki (http://twiki.org) is a powerful wiki and application platform that offers several options for BloggingInTWiki (http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/BlogginInTWiki).
- MaBliki (http://www.code.online.pt/view/MaBliki) is a ModPerl/HTML::Mason implementation.
- TikiWiki (http://www.tikiwiki.org), written in PHP/MySQL, is a wiki engine with built-in blog capabilities. A single wiki markup syntax applies to both wiki and blog entries.
- XWiki (http://www.xwiki.org), a professional Wiki with integrated blogging, presentations,... written in Java.
- Commercial bliki services:
- Socialtext Workspace (http://www.socialtext.com) adapts weblog and wiki for enterprise and event use. It developed the first commercial Bliki in 2002.
- WikiLog (http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiLog), description of Wikilogs by Bill Seitz, who also runs a commercial Wikilog hosting service.
- Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) is a powerful and comprehensive bliki developed by Atlassian (http://www.atlassian.com/). Commercial licenses include source code. Open-source projects and non-profit organizations are eligible for free licenses.
- Seedwiki (http://www.seedwiki.com/) is a popular Wiki Farm (wiki hosting service) which also allows for the creation of blikis. Seedwiki offers free accounts as well as reasonably-priced account upgrades.
- WikiWeblogPIM (http://www.ourpla.net/john/wikiweblogpim.html), a page with ideas about integrating wikis, weblogs, and personal information managers (PIMs).
- WikiWeblog (http://wiki.crao.net/index.php/WikiWeblog) (French)
- WikyBlog (http://www.wikyblog.com) is an attempt at an online wikiblog community.
- Connecting weblogs and wikis