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 standardizes...

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 codebase...

In Mathematics, a set of symbols is frequently used in mathematical expressions. As mathematicians are familiar with these symbols, they are not explained each time they are used. So, for mathematical novices, the following table lists many common symbols together with their name, pronunciation and related field of Mathematics. Additionally, the third column contains an informal...

Welcome to GetWiki, a Wiki for the Humanities, Sciences, and “Meta” topics, from Metaphysics to Metadata, running the easy-to-use GetWiki software. The website, first known as “GetMeta”, was launched in April 2004 as a testing platform for Wikinfo, which at...

Web of WikiWebs - GetWiki uses custom external links to remote sites you can use, and formerly allowed links in the form of [[Community:GetWiki]], instead of pasting the entire url into your text. These links, some stored in the database and sometimes called “interwiki” links, are a wonderful invention, if needed by the community. On GetWiki links like the above...

Message Functions - In GetWiki, to create a new custom message, simply create a page in the GetWiki namespace (as we do not use “MediaWiki”), named “GetWiki:Message” which contains the text of the message. Each message needs a unique name with no special characters. As on this page, we can list custom messages so that readers can find them, or create new ones. There are...

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With GetWiki, you can use custom images, thumbnails and thumbnails with caption links to enhance your articles. Below are some examples of image links, as implemented by the latest GetWiki. Keep in mind that now pixel dimensions specified are obeyed, as well as {{image:metaforum.gif}} WikiCreole-style braces (although, the word “image:”, or “Image:”, is...

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...

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Help! - GetWiki is a Bloki application, a general discussion forum, and a “metawiki” for philosophical and technical issues. Some contributors will have experiences from other blogs, forums and wikis, and some will not. Here are a few helpful links, and a few questions are answered below. Editing FAQ - do I have to use wiki coding? - No. GetWiki uses, but is not limited by,...

GetWiki and Your Rights By default, you grant permission to copy, distribute and/or modify your document(s) under the Creative Commons License Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. If content is imported from another Wiki, and one which has licensed its content under the GNU FDL, we are required to license that work (which is owned by no...

welcome, getwiker! - Depending on what you know about Wikis or the history of the GetWiki site, you may be frustrated on how to create new pages, or edit the ones we have here. As of August 2008, the software has been completely replaced (along with all built-in assumptions about wikis) with a whole new platform (and replaced a couple times since). There are...

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Background - GetWiki allows TeX markup for mathematics and logic formulas. Instead of assuming complicated dependencies and server resources on all GetWiki-based wikis just to generate PNG images, GetWiki translates TeX into simple XHTML markup1, with LaTeX parsing and image rendering available as a deprecated option2. In the future, as browsers become even more XML...

Introducing GetWiki 1.0 - Despite the wonderful aspects of what the software could do, 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...

XHTML Symbols - Below is a quick reference for Logic and Mathematics symbols in XHTML which work on all modern browsers These are intended for logical and mathematical articles, or any page requiring special characters not found in the “edit bar“ Feel free to copy-and-paste (ctrl/cmd-c, ctrl/cmd-v) symbols Logic: ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃...

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