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'''''The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web''''' is a 2001 book about [[Wiki|wiki]]s by Bo Leuf and [[Biography:Ward Cunningham|Ward Cunningham]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leuf |first1=Bo |last2=Cunningham |first2=Ward |title=The Wiki Way}}</ref><ref name="Mute">{{Cite web |last=Worthington |first=Simon |date=2001-10-12 |title=The Wiki Way (Quick Collaboration on the Web, Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham) |url=https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/wiki-way-quick-collaboration-web-bo-leuf-ward-cunningham |access-date=2024-06-26 |magazine=Mute |issn= 1356-7748 |language=en|quote=The review notes: The Wiki Way book is a manifesto and a software manual in one, with the essentials for Wiki installation attached on CD. The authors have written this book with an almost mystical sense of wonderment at the achievements and ideals embodied in the Wiki concept, a web site where anyone can edit anything. ... The attached CD allows you to install a Wiki on most Os’s, even Windows, and then you too will be able to keep the flame burning for those early ideals of the WWW: empowerment, learning and collaboration.}}</ref>


It was the first major book published about using wikis. Cunningham invented wikis when he wrote [[Social:WikiWikiWeb|WikiWikiWeb]], the first wiki website software.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}
The book "The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond
The book is about how to manage wiki systems, followed by a perspective on the nature of wiki-style online communication.
The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond" helps the readers understand the meaning of synchronicity, or remarkable coincidences in people's lives. This work not only explains the mystery of synchronicity, originally introduced by Carl Jung, but it also shows how to make a simple calculation to estimate the chances that coincidences you may encounter in your life are not due to mere randomness. By showing that the role of chance in such phenomena is unlikely, it uniquely connects it with the questions of the Universe's origin, biological evolution, quantum mechanics, elementary particles and with the incredible beauty of the laws of nature. The examples and calculations discussed in this book demonstrate that our world cannot be viewed as purely materialistic, defined by randomness and cause-and-effect chains. Where science does not provide definitive answers, this book offers explanations that place our consciousness and its connection to the informational reality that defines events and processes of our world. It argues that everything we know about the Universe is fully compatible with the existence of God.
 
==Reception==
Eugene Eric Kim wrote in ''Web Techniques'' that "Leuf and Cunningham do a good job of explaining what a Wiki is" and said "''The Wiki Way'' is about the way we work, and that makes it a worthwhile read."<ref>{{cite news |last=Kim |first=Eugene Eric |date=September 2001 |title=The Wiki Way: Quick collaboration on the Web |magazine=Web Techniques |volume=6 |issue=9 |page=62 |id={{ProQuest|275002380}} }}</ref> David Mattison of ''Searcher'' tried the book's QuickiWiki script.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Mattison |first=David |date=April 2003 |title=Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki, and the Plone Wars: Wiki as PJM and collaborative content tool |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A99618622/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=d3679043 |magazine=Searcher |via=[[Company:Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |volume=11 |number=4 |pages=32+ |accessdate=2024-06-26 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240626085558/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA99618622&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=d3679043 |archivedate=2024-06-26 }}</ref> Simon Worthington stated, "''The Wiki Way'' book is a manifesto and a software manual in one, with the essentials for Wiki installation attached on CD."<ref name="Mute"/>


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Short description: Book by Dr Sergei V. Chekanov]
The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond
The Wiki Way.jpg
AuthorSergei V. Chekanov, Ph.D.
PublisherIngramSpark
Publication date
May 20, 2024
ISBNISBN:9798990642836, 9798990642829

The book "The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond" helps the readers understand the meaning of synchronicity, or remarkable coincidences in people's lives. This work not only explains the mystery of synchronicity, originally introduced by Carl Jung, but it also shows how to make a simple calculation to estimate the chances that coincidences you may encounter in your life are not due to mere randomness. By showing that the role of chance in such phenomena is unlikely, it uniquely connects it with the questions of the Universe's origin, biological evolution, quantum mechanics, elementary particles and with the incredible beauty of the laws of nature. The examples and calculations discussed in this book demonstrate that our world cannot be viewed as purely materialistic, defined by randomness and cause-and-effect chains. Where science does not provide definitive answers, this book offers explanations that place our consciousness and its connection to the informational reality that defines events and processes of our world. It argues that everything we know about the Universe is fully compatible with the existence of God.

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