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Welcome to our Fairbanks Family Wiki pages!
What's a Wiki? Our wiki is a place where we can add stories, histories, and other items of interest to our family website. You are welcome to register and add your own historical information. If you have something you want linked to a person or place via our family tree, email me the file. Then it will get added and a link then be found on the genealogy portion of the website. If there is a wiki for a person, you will see a yellow paper icon next to his name (click here for Joseph Fairbanks' page, as an example). If there is a wiki on a location, the location will appear on the genealogy pages as a blue link. Events must be reached via the wiki pages.
Once pages are on the wiki, anyone who is registered on the wiki can then edit the stories to either correct or add information.
Currently there are only three categories as you can see in the menu at left: Events, People and Places. If you see the need for further categories, let me know. Click on a category and you will find a list of the articles for you to select and read.
We have an interesting bit on the Morris Canal, which Joseph worked on as a stonemason. It is really quite an impressive bit of history. The canal is no longer in use, however.
You are encouraged to make this a collaborative effort. The more interesting articles we find on our website, the more we can learn about our heritage. It is all very fascinating!
Visit the Help pages in the left menu bar for more information. If adding information on your own looks a bit daunting, you can simply email me the info and let me know where you'd like it put.
FYI - Here's a bit from Wikipedia about where the term Wiki came from:
WikiWikiWeb was the first such software to be called a wiki. Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995. It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the so-called "Wiki Wiki" Chance RT-52 shuttle bus line that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web." "Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication of "wiki", a Hawaiian-language word for fast. The word wiki is a shorter form of wiki wiki (weekie, weekie). The word is sometimes interpreted as the backronym for "what I know is", which describes the knowledge contribution, storage, and the exchange function.
According to Cunningham, the idea of 'Wiki' can be traced back to a HyperCard stack he wrote in the late 1980s. In the late 1990s, wikis were increasingly recognized as a promising way to develop private and public knowledge bases, and this potential inspired the founders of the Nupedia encyclopedia project, which later became Wikipedia. In the early 2000s, wikis were increasingly adopted in the enterprise as collaborative software.
