How Vi.ki works

Vi.ki hosts video wikis: an encyclopedia about one topic each, where every key paragraph carries a clip that shows what it says.

What is a video wiki?

Video wikis are YouTube + Wikipedia, where you can see the paragraph you are reading by clicking the moment being described in the text.

Wikis are traditionally walls of text with a few images thrown in, and maybe an embedded video floating somewhere that is not connected to the text.

The biggest challenge and most time-consuming part of writing a good video wiki is finding those appropriate moments as timestamps on relevant YouTube videos!

A viki

A viki is one wiki about one thing, on its own address: name.vi.ki. It has pages by category, a wall of photos, a search box, and a record of every change. Every viki is listed on the front page.

Moments

A moment is a timestamped clip of a YouTube video, written into a page as a link with a time. It renders as a small chip in the margin of its paragraph. Click it and the video plays that passage in the dock beside the article, through YouTube’s own player with YouTube’s own controls. The first moment on a page is the picture the page opens with; nothing plays until you ask.

Photos

Photos sit in the text and on the viki’s wall. Every photo carries a credit, a source and a license, shown in the viewer. A signed-in reader can drop an image on any page or on the wall; it waits for an admin before anyone else sees it.

Editing

Sign in with your He.art account and every page has an Edit button. An edit becomes a pending revision until an admin approves it; an admin’s own edit goes live at once. Every approved revision is kept, with the name of the person who made it and a note saying what changed, and any two revisions can be compared word by word.

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