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a lot of people have their first Wiki experience here.
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this wiki. Discussion here is focused on PeopleProjectsAndPatterns,
mostly as they relate to programming. Other WikiWikiClones
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them or set up your own. MeatballWiki,
in particular, likes to encourage experiments in hypermedia collaboration.
Here are a few things you can do here to get a feel for Wiki:
Some say you should probably read widely on this wiki and participate on existing
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LikeThis can be just the thing to
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figure out how you fit in.
The following show various types of links, sometimes called references, that one can create or follow on Wiki:
There is no "Purdue Pattern Repository"; it is a made-up name to show how Wiki handles references to non-existent (i.e. undefined) pages. The hyper-linked question mark is our visual clue that the page it refers to is undefined. Creating a new page is as easy as pressing the question mark and adding text - but please don't do this as it will destroy this little example.
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