Personal wiki
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A personal wiki is a wiki maintained primarily for personal use. Personal wikis allow people to organize information on their desktop or mobile computing devices in a manner similar to community wikis, but without the need for collaboration by multiple users.
Personal wiki software can be broadly divided into multi-user wiki software with personal editions, and those wiki applications that are designed only for single users, not depending on a database engine and a web server.[1]
Some personal wikis are public but password-protected, running either on their own webservers or hosted by third parties. This has the advantage that the personal space can be accessed and edited from any computer or PDA with a web browser.[2]
Diagram
| Types of Personal Wiki | Openness | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Public | Private | ||
| Basis for organization | Content | Public personal wiki | Private personal wiki |
| Chronology | Public bliki | Private bliki (i.e., journal) | |
See also
- Category:Personal - Personal wiki on WikiIndex.
- Commonplace book
- Personal information manager
- Personal knowledge base
- Personal knowledge management
References
- ↑ Trapani, Gina, Geek to Live: How to host a personal wiki on your home computer, lifehacker.com, 2005-9-16. Accessed 2012-4-17.
- ↑ Falconer, Joe, The Quick & Dirty Guide to Personal Wikis, lifehack.org, 2008-7-14. Accessed 2012-4-17.