Wiki

A wiki is a type of content management system, like a pseudo-database. More simply, a wiki is one of the available tools for collecting and displaying information which can potentially be added to by anyone. (In the Twine Encyclopaedia's case, you need a password before you can contribute. Many wikis are freely editable.)

Twine runs from a script called UseModWiki.

Wiki conventions

Twine has borrowed some of its conventions and a bit of wiki-ing terminology from Wikipedia and other existing wikis. One example is the practice of referring to a short, inadequately informative article as a stub. Some more are:

• 'Boilerplate' text: the option to include some pre-written text by typing something like {{author}} (see any editing page for a list), which required a hack to the script that Mutt is very proud of
• The disambiguation page convention, used where there are several different things all called the same name (for example: different kinds of angel or two people called Nico)
• Basic article-writing practice, such as including an introductory summary, bolding the article subject the first time it appears, and writing in a (dryly humorous) 'neutral point of view' tone

External links

• [Information about wikis from Wikipedia], who ought to know
• [UseModWiki]