[-empyre-] WIKI Historigraphy

[Lichty, Patrick]

Wikipedia has the advantage of being a wiki which means that it also allows for an archiving of its own textual history. While its true that events change its most recent text, it's also the case that one can return to older histories/archives of the entry at hand. In fact this is something I spend a lot of time pointing out to my students as one of its most salient features and I get them to spend time with which and what version of information they are using.

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Now, THIS is something really interesting (and new) when considering the historiography of electronic media.  Imagine actually being able to map the revision change of one's historical records!  This could be a thesis paper in itself - the historiography of the revision chain.

So then, what does it mean in terms of a WIKI to be able to see the arc of one's revision over time spread out before them.

Excellent question!