Bliki

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A Bliki (also known as a WikiLog, Wog, WikiWeblog, Wikiblog, or Bloki), is a blog with wiki support. This means that after (or before) an article is posted to the blog, it can be edited, either by anyone or by some group of authorized users.

This combination of the two Internet concepts was conceived with the purpose of making the popular blogging experience more interactive. Another possible effect (especially for news blogs) is the improvement of the quality and accuracy of the articles posted by giving more people the ability to edit them. However, trolling may become a problem in such systems and steps should be taken to counteract malicious interactions.

The main advantage of combining the two concepts, however, is in leveraging the utility of wikis at making connections between ideas; this effectively turns blog posts into proper wiki articles, but maintains the former's immediate nature. Thus, a bliki can evolve as a whole over time, and past information is not merely jettisoned into the aether and lost in the shuffle.

Many wiki engines are capable of providing an RSS feed, so that users can subscribe to receive notifications of updates and changes. However, a content management system with an RSS feed is not necessarily a blog; so a wiki engine with RSS support is not necessarily a bliki. Blikis look more like a blog than wikis, typically showing reverse-chronological order, date-labelled, entries.

Due to the increasing popularity of both blogs and wikis, and their consequent commercialization, a great deal of ambiguity as to the distinction between the two has been created. Some software marketed as being for the creation of wikis, are little more than partner blogs, some are nothing more than text editors. The key difference to keep in mind is that a true wiki is actively collaborative, that is, anyone can edit the document at any point in the document, whether that is to insert a comma, strike a sentence, or add an additional page. Blogs tend to function more like monologues, or pronouncements from the author(s) to which readers may append their own comments without the ability to alter the original blog text.

The same cautions should also be taken with regard to forum software marketed as suitable to creating a wiki.

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Commercial bliki services

(These are websites which will host your bliki for free or for a fee, no programming is required)

  • Confluence Paid bliki. Open-source projects and non-profit organizations are eligible for free licenses.
  • Seedwiki Free bliki accounts as well as paid account upgrades. Does not recognize wikipedia markup. Example: ''' '' === ===
  • Socialtext Workspace 30 day free trial. Bliki services since 2002.
  • WikiLog Paid, low-tech bliki
  • WikyBlog Offers free blikis. Recognizes wikipedia markup. Example: ''' '' === ===
  • WikiWeblog (French)
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Free and open source bliki engines

(These are programs, requiring some programming knowledge)

  • Cardboard is an open-source PHP/MySQL bliki, currently alpha version quality
  • Fromage is an open source bliki which uses textfiles to store the data. No official release yet, but you can get the source from the CVS server. Fromage is written in PHP.
  • Kwiki is an open source bliki known for its fast install and extensibility, written in Perl
  • Leonardo is an open-source bliki written in Python.
  • mUnky-bliki, written in PHP/MySQL currently under constant development (created by Dovid Kopel).
  • pimki, a full wiki-based PIM, containing a Bliki component. Written in Ruby, based on Instiki
  • MaBliki is a ModPerl/HTML::Mason implementation.
  • OddMuse, written in Perl, is a wiki engine with advanced blogging modules available.
  • SnipSnap, feature-rich, inspired by Vanilla, implemented in Java.
  • TikiWiki, written in PHP/MySQL, is a wiki engine with built-in blog capabilities. A single wiki markup syntax applies to both wiki and blog entries.
  • TWiki is a powerful wiki and application platform that offers several options for BloggingInTWiki. Written in Perl.
  • Vanilla, the first known bliki, created by Christian Langreiter in 1999 using REBOL.
  • Wiclear, a simple and young Wiki which has a WikiBlog plugin. It allows to make your wiki site looks like a blog while retaining all wiki functionalities. Written in PHP.
  • XWiki, a professional Wiki with integrated blogging, presentations,... written in Java.
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Connecting weblogs and wikis

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Example of personal bliki sites

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Other external links

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