Earlier today Portland technology weblog Silicon Florist pointed out that Portland-based Versionista has a great new service allowing website owners to highlight changes to their website via a wiki-like revision history page. The service (enabled by including a java snippet) provides the date of changes and the ability to look a the content that’s changes from one revision to the next.
While this isn’t a true wiki-technology (as it doesn’t allow visitors to edit, merely shows changes webmasters have made) it’s a wonderful adaptation to provide transparency, and it’s exciting to see this happening in our backyard. As Silicon Florist mentions:
It seems appropriate that the town known for its wikis—and home to the father of the wiki, Ward Cunningham—is home to a service inspired by the wiki view of recent changes. Even if you don’t let your readers edit your site, it’s always nice to let them know what you’ve changed.
It will certainly be interesting to watch as Versionista develops further their “Integrated Web Versioning” technology and see what kinds of websites adopt the service. It could be a fabulous way for government agencies and other high profile public organizations to provide new levels of transparency without completely coming over to the “Wiki Way”.
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Sounds like a cool technology, I’ll have to consider implementing it. Its great to see the impact that the wiki concept is having on Portland and technology in general!
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