Among the many wikis we have in use here at Nokia, one of the big ones we use is Socialtext. And, since most of us are heavy phone users, it’s come up a few times why we couldn’t use Socialtext with our phones.
A long time ago, my personal wiki Guru, Janne Jalkanen (father of the open-source, JSPWiki), commented that wikis are ready made for mobile devices.* Indeed, since then, a few around here have been thinking of wiki things related to mobiles.
Well, Ross and gang at Socialtext have made some tweaks to Socialtext to create the Miki (trademarked by Socialtext, mind you). Miki is a wiki optimized for mobile devices. Ross pushes Blackberrys, since he’s pushing the enterprise edition of Socialtext. But, I tried it out and it works fine on my Series 60 phone (and I wouldn’t doubt on other phones as well).
Really, I don’t know what was changed and don’t think it was rocket science. I think the really cool thing, and probably the hardest thing to get over, is to recognize mobile devices as a wiki editing tool. And that’s good enough for me.
Way to go.
Link: Hey Miki! | Socialtext Enterprise Wiki.
Today we launched Miki — a wiki platform optimized for mobile devices. As wikis are becoming an essential communications tool for enterprises, so to is being able to access and edit anywhere. Another first from Socialtext, this is an achievement in simplicity.
*Russ makes similar comments here, adding some great advice.
