GetWiki has benefited from a series of changes in its software, taking advantage of the changing landscape of publishing in general. What is a Wiki but a published series of pages, not unlike any other website or magazine? Late in 2003, I began GetWiki by forking the underlying Pseudopedia software, MediaWiki, to include remote XML content. The class and function I'd added to the...

A Positive Point of View (PPOV) means presenting a subject or concept from the positive perspective of a proponent, that is, a favourable, affirmative light - as in to “posit” an idea. Yet, PPOV also encourages equally critical perspectives to be presented. Criticism of a subject or concept can be placed in sections within the article on that subject or concept, or on a separate, well-linked critical, or “against”...

GetWiki was first developed by M.R.M. Parrott late in 2003 and early in 2004 to “get wiki” content from site to site using XML-based exporting and importing. At the time, MediaWiki appeared to be a more intuitive and user-friendly application than other Wiki-engines, full of features, actively tested and improved by dedicated developers from around the world. However, this...

Welcome to GetWiki, a small encyclopedia mainly for Philosophy, and “Meta” topics, from Metaphysics to Metadata, running the easy-to-use GetWiki software. Focused on accurate and verifiable information in Philosophy and intellectual issues, GetWiki is a unique application and platform. The website, first known as “GetMeta”, was launched in April 2004...

GetMeta was the original title of this GetWiki.net wiki, but the wiki was renamed to GetWiki on 11 March, 2007, to take advantage of the more well-known name. The GetMeta name was also the original “meta” topic area, a “metanamespace” in Wiki terms, for GetWiki, and for many years GetMeta was a place for pages and discussion related to the wiki itself. By 2025 and...

Introducing GetWiki 3.0 -For the 20th Anniversary of GetWiki, GetWiki 3.0 is a simplified 2024 version of GetWiki 2.0, focused as a publishing platform rather than a discussion forum or inwardly focused wiki. The new iteration integrates multi-site hosting further into the traditional wiki website, and further...

Introducing GetWiki 2.0 -With the ability to develop GetWiki fully independently of “legacy” concerns, GetWiki 2.0 has brought major improvements and changes to GetWiki 1.0. Beyond the endless bugfixes to the old MediaWiki codebase and Pseudopedian origins, development stabilized for 1.0 and has since moved toward a few major changes, key features and...

Introducing GetWiki 1.0 -Despite the wonderful aspects of what the software could do, MediaWiki 1.1.0 had many nagging problems, along with many hidden defaults which may not serve other sites beyond Pseudopedia's reach. After a series of bugfixes to Mediawiki 1.1.0, it became apparent the Internet-Encyclopedia software had been “forked”, and GetWiki 1.0 was born. Of...