[PWS] PWS only meant for Swiki?
Mark Guzdial
guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
Mon May 3 13:50:12 UTC 1999
>By the way, as one who has only recently become alive to the virtues
>of PWS and built-in Swiki support, let me humbly state what a big
>deal this stuff is. The amount of functionality for the effort to
>build one is amazing, and the extensibility is unparalleled.
That last point continues to amaze me. The cool inventions using the Swiki
that teachers come up with are tremendous!
>I am curious how, in practice, a Swiki performs. In particular, how
>practical are these things for communities of several hundred people?
Ward can answer for the WikiWikiWeb. My class Swiki (we call it a CoWeb --
easier to explain to students without invoking Hawaiian :-) regularly hosts
over 100 very frequent users.
FYI, I've just written a paper for AERA (American Educational Research
Association) on a survey of users, exploring issues of usability,
motivation, and learning. http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu/papers/aera99/
>
>And one simple, silly (in the sense I should probably be able to
>figure this out for myself without much effort) question. Since
>Swikis keep lots of past information available to support rollback of
>pages, how do I control the bilge when I am comfortable that I have a
>stable state? In particular, how can i get my Swiki to dump old
>information? Will Swiki automatically dump rollbacks after a fixed
>number of edits?
No, the Swiki won't automatically dump roolbacks, but there are variety of
commands that Ted built for trimming the load.
I should say: I've never used them. My class CoWeb is well over 1300 web
pages now, after over a year of use. The whole thing, with every version
of every page saved, is 50M. And in just a mere 40 years, I'll have to
move off of the too-small-too-buy-a-replacement 2 gig disk that it's now
residing on. Disk space is just SOOOO cheap!
Mark
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