This content was published by Andrew Tomazos and written by several hundred members of the former Internet Knowledge Base project.
What is the IKB?
The Internet Knowledge Base currently consists of a mailing list and a database.
++ MAILING LIST ++
The mailing list has been subscribed to by a few thousand people from the "high tech vertical".
About one third professionals from Apple, Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola and Sun.
About one third academics from the Computer Science and Information Technology departments of universities.
About one third computing enthusiasts, heavy Internet users and other IT small business and support professionals.
If you are reading this then you are a member of the IKB mailing list.
Only the IKB moderator, Andrew Tomazos, may post to the mailing list at this time - and the focus and work product at the moment is coming up with a plain text newsletter every two weeks. The first four are published on the IKB front page.
++ DATABASE ++
The database is a single-parent linked tree.
Each item has an IKB number, a Title, a Body and a Parent IKB number.
For example the IKB number of this item is 205. The current parent IKB number is 163. The Title is "What is the IKB?" and the Body is what you are reading now.
An item's IKB number NEVER changes.
An item can be moved by setting its Parent IKB number to the IKB number of its new parent.
Both the Title and the Body can be changed and edited.
Underneath each item is displayed a table of its immediate children (subitems). You can add questions, comments, new items anywhere in the database.
New posts go to the Pending Moderation item and are added into the tree by a moderator.
Edits on items are likewise passed to a moderator for approval before going live.
++ CONTROLS ++
Top: Go to the front page.
Previous: Go to the previous sibling.
Up: Go to the parent.
Next: Go to the next sibling
Browse: View or edit an item
Add: Add an item (defaults to being a child of current item.)
++ NEW MEMBERS ++
You are currently a member, but if you want to invite new members then simply give them the email address you used to register with the site and then tell them to come to and follow the prompts.
Just for the curious, new members without an invitation are still welcome, but they must go through a simple application process where they must express what their interest in computing is. This is just a small attempt to keep our traffic qualified.
++ IMPORTANT NOTE ++
This is an organic project - which is a fancy way of saying that things are evolving rapidly. Everything you just read could be changed tomorrow. Be prepared for this. Our community motto is "moving targets are fun".
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