(2008-07-09) Bernstein Wiki Sym Series

Mark Bernstein is program chair for the next WikiSym. He has a series of Wiki-related bits - "mysteries".

• conference people [puzzling](http://www.markbernstein.org/May0801/Wiki Mystery1.html) over MediaWiki. He's right, that's a WikiEngine that's lost its Wiki Nature - I always refer to it as a CMS.

• [does](http://www.markbernstein.org/Jun0801/Wiki Mystery2 To Name Is To Link.html) Automatic Linking limit the types of writing possible in such spaces (e.g. is irony-in-linking too difficult)?

• [how](http://www.markbernstein.org/Jun0801/Wiki Mystery3 Wiki Narrative.html) do you spread a story arc over a series of pages? How about: name each page as a title for a "scene"; at the end of each page put the link to the next "scene".

• [But](http://www.markbernstein.org/Jun0801/Wiki Mystery4 First Principle.html) Wikipedia is a very big wiki, and so it naturally is sometimes the first to encounter problems of scale and Governance that will eventually confront lots of wikis. Hmm is that true? How many WikiSpace-s will get that big? Should they? Or should there instead be a galaxy of small spaces, each "owned" by a smaller more-coherent group, and connected to other spaces via a variety of InterWiki techniques?