Why is WikiAnnotation important for Online Communities?
Isn't Wiki enough? Wikis allow inline annotations with normal wiki page editing? -- FridemarPache

Note:
Don't confuse an AnnotationWiki with WikiAnnotation. An AnnotationWiki is a repository for annotations material, to be pasted into rich text/link annotation dialogues, whereas WikiAnnotation makes only wiki pages the targets of annotations. Of course an AnnotationWiki can be itself the target of some WikiAnnotation.

Discussion:

WikiPrefix

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A WikiPrefix is a memorable shortcut to a wiki domain to make it easier to WikiWalk? or annotate Webpages via Wikipages in different Wikis.



E.g. With



Meatball=http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?



we could refer to this page as Meatball:WikiPrefix from an external server that supports it.
This would be very useful for an AnnotationWiki or at least for a WikiAnnotationMediator.





How does this idea differ from the existing InterMap facility?






Thank you for this question. Namely in this way we can bring it to a broader focus via the DiigoService.
The author uses WikiPrefix as:





• a handy abbreviation for the syntax of global wiki URL page naming like this: Wikiprefix:pagename. Compare this to: Intermap:pagename. (Intermap points to a concept, wheras WikiPrefix is a dummy for the prefixed URL string to concatenate with pagename. Forgive the author for not using here a more formal definition in BNF. )
  
• a term that flows better with text: "What is the prefix of your favorite wiki?" Can you give me some WikiPrefix 'es, where the wiki term xyz or [xyz] is discussed?"
  
• an easier to remember shortcut for Wiki Identification. (Once the author proposed, that each Wiki should have its WikiPrefix on each of its pages. What a shame, that the first and original Wiki had/has(?) different WikiPrefix es in different communities: wiki, wikiwiki, c2, WardsWiki, TheOriginalWiki? ;-) On the other hand look at the right upper position of each page of this Wiki and you can see the WikiPrefix meatball.
  
• a tool for WikiBranding?
  
• a profiling tool for helping the social annotating communities to easily associate Wikis with their special topics of interest (this helps to profile wikis and attract just those people who are in best resonance). -- FridemarPache
  




'Note:'
This page is DiigoService ''d. (socially bookmarked, blogged, annotated, archived )
The author recommends to annotate it for faster input.











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Example: natural extension of the WikiPedia: What about an annotating Wiki, without the strict rules of the underlying WikiPedia Wiki. This Wiki could take over the role of the adjunct talk pages, but with much more flexibility, for several reasons:

• fine-grained markers on the annotated page allow faster read/write access
  
• annotating pages on the annotated pages (and so on recursively) create more space for different views
  
• writing comments in an overlaying wiki, allows more efficient statements due to its additional LinkLanguage? formed in its annotation space
  
• a link on the base page to the annoting wiki(s) reduces the workload for the admins and opens new horizons for the readers/writers.
  
  
  

-- FridemarPache