Other Things on This Site
For people who’ve landed directly on this blog without passing through the entry page to the site, some things on this site that might be of some interest:
* Old English Wiki - a wiki with information on Old English
* Latin Wiki - a wiki with information on Latin
* BlogLatin - a blog about learning Latin
* Latin Word Lookup - a program I wrote to look up words in Latin (based on the Whitaker word list) and inflect them
Wikis, if you’re not familiar with them, are a type of collaborative web-publishing software that makes it easy to create hyperlinked pages. Wiki pages can be edited from the web by clicking on a special link on the page, and when you save the page the software searches for any text that has MixedCaseLikeThis and dynamically turns it into a link to a page of the same name; if that page doesn’t yet exist clicking on the link creates a blank page with that name. Currently the most famous wiki is the Wikipedia, a collaborative encyclopedia. Blogs are great for chronologically ordered material, or at least material where cross-referencing within the site doesn’t matter much, but wikis are much better for heavily cross-referenced information.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2004