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personal webnode of Haiko Hebig

Free linking of pages is the biggest strength of wikis, but ironically, in most wikitools, linking pages is also one of the hardest things to actually do - most offer no helpers, no supportive GUI, nothing. You have to know what other pages are there, and you have to manually insert the linked page's name. Lots of room for improvement.

Now I've seen this simple form at Google Pages:

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Inserting a link to another page by selecting from a list of all page names, freeform link text, and the wiki-esque feature "Create new page by linking to it" is already there, too.

Now imagine these two extra features: "Invite friends to edit some of my pages" and, in above screen, the fifth button "My friend's pages". Add some bits here and there - voila, welcome to Google Wikifarm. Let's take it as inspiration for a userfriendly small-wikis-tool.

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