m.zungu.net » wikiwiki http://m.zungu.net Just another .zungu.net | the friends blogBASE weblog Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:14:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Volxbibel - The German Open Source Bible http://m.zungu.net/2007/07/25/volxbibel-the-german-open-source-bible/ http://m.zungu.net/2007/07/25/volxbibel-the-german-open-source-bible/#comments Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:40:57 +0000 Cedric Weber http://m.zungu.net/2007/07/25/volxbibel-the-german-open-source-bible/ Volxbibel LogoVolxbibel is a modern German bible translation initiated by Martin Dreyer. Version 1.0 was translated with focus on young people that have no idea of Christian faith and therefor uses modern youth slang. His Vision was to create a Bible that that continues to be updated by the people themselves - the volk. Volxbibel Verlag, a subsidiary of R. Brockhaus Verlag, published the Version 1.0 in 2005 and sold about 100.000 Bibles within about a year. R. Brockhaus is publisher of the Elberfelder Bible, which is well known as a very exact translation. Already before the first publication the publisher house and Martin Dreyer encountered strong protest from wide parts of protestant Christians in Germany, degrading Dreyers translation as blasphemy. Through the strong protests the project gained quite some media presence and popularity in the secular world.

One characteristic aspect of Volxbibel is, that it is published under a dual license, one of them the well known Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA). This license is extended by a special license, exclusively allowing the publishing house commercial use of the bible. Since publication of “the first open source bible in the world”, the translation continues as a process in a wiki - the Volxbibel Wiki*. Editing is open to every registered user who claims to support Volxbibel’s Vision. Since theVolxbibel-Wiki launch in August 2005 more than 500 users registered to the project. In March 2006 Version 2.0 of Volxbibel with lots of input from the Wikiusers was published.

The publishing process does not underlie fully democratic decision. The online content of Volxbibel is seen as draft version everybody can discuss and give input to. Before a new Version of Volxbibel is published a group of theologians around Martin Dreyer audit the changes and verify their correctness. In future Versions all edits and audits are supposed to happen in special spaces within the wiki, enabling simple monitoring of changes and automatic export for future printable releases.

* Volxbibel Wiki was put up by me (zungu - Corporate Wiki Consulting) and officially launched on 5th of August 2005. Volxbibel Wiki is powerd by MediaWiki, the same engine that drives the famous Wikipedia.

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TWiki 4.0.1

TWiki is a Open Source Wiki especially designed for use in corporate environments. In my company I am running the new Version 4.0 as a platform for documentation by IT and R&E departments. 4.0 is a major step ahead offering improved usability and much easier installation. A WYSIWYG Editor can be activated but is still labeled as development beta. The Security-Release 4.0.2 should be out in the next days, so in case you want to give TWiki it a try, better wait for the launch. Have a look at the features or compare it to the major competitors. From my point of view TWiki is first choice for large companies. An alternative could be Confluence, but it is not under an opensource license.

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