Re:Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
by avhon1 on Friday August 29, 2025 @11:44PM
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FWIW, showing recent changes is a very common wiki feature.
Here's the page for my local makerspace's wiki, which runs on mediawiki:
https://bloominglabs.org/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&li...
Re:Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
by something98 on Saturday August 30, 2025 @02:00AM
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A terse diff like that, on a separate page, is probably not what they were referring to.
Re:Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
by me-vs-cat on Saturday August 30, 2025 @01:06PM
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The first wiki by Ward Cunningham included a RecentChanges page from the beginning or very nearly so.
> It was too simple
That happens when you ignore requirements, either because they were outright discarded or because they were never recognized. "The simplest thing possible" is understood to include: "to meet all requirements."
It's interesting you gave that example. Before my first use of a wiki I was on a team that used Lotus Notes and did project organization in a team folder. I loved that Notes would highlight which documents had been updated since the last time I read them.
In the next project, that team used a wiki. It's simpler. But, the fact it didn't tell me which documents had been updated effectively made it useless. People typed new project designs into the wiki but no one saw them since they couldn't, at a glance, know which of the hundreds of pages had been updated since they last read them.
It was too simple