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Welcome to the <b><nowiki>PickWiki</nowiki></b>! This site is about [[MultiValuedDatabases|MultiValued Databases]].<br />
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== News ==<br />
* 2015-01-15 <a href="http://www.zumasys.com/admin/zumasys-acquires-jbase-database/">Zumasys acquires jBase!</a><br />
* 2013-12-15 Pickwiki.com has been migrated from a virtual to a physical server hosted at www.ovh.com<br />
* 2013-12-01 Install media-wiki and starting the laborious process of moving content manually<br />
* 2013-11-02 There was an unfortunate lapse in being able to update the wiki for a couple of months, caused by a hard coded cookie expiration date in wiki.pl (!)<br />
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== Some useful starting points ==<br />
* [[RecentChanges]] in <nowiki>PickWiki</nowiki><br />
* [[MultiValuedDatabases|MultiValued Databases]] - Describes the database and its history<br />
* [[Getting Started]] with <nowiki>MultiValued Databases</nowiki><br />
* [[HowTos]] - Common issues and solutions, like [[CreateWebInterfaces|creating web interfaces]]<br />
* [[SourceCode|Source Code]] - Programming and technical articles<br />
* [[Users]] - As a registered user, you can create your own page and your updates will automatically link to it!<br />
* [[InMemoriam|In Memoriam]] - Remembering those who are no longer with us<br />
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== Other resources ==<br />
* [[Blogs]] related to [[MultiValue]] software<br />
* [[Community]] page includes links to [[employment]], [[UserGroups]] and forums to post questions<br />
* [[Freeware]] - All free, mostly open source<br />
* [[MultiValueConsultants|MultiValue Consultants]] - Need some help? Find the perfect person!<br />
* [[MultiValueCompanies|MultiValue Companies]] - List of companies which use [[MultiValue]] databases<br />
* [http://www.u2ug.org [[U2UG]]] has a wiki dedicated to the Rocket U2 databases<br />
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* Add [[Tags|tags]] to improve searching<br />
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== About <nowiki>PickWiki</nowiki> ==<br />
This wiki runs on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UseModWiki [[UseModWiki]]], one of the early wiki clones.<br />
The state of the art has moved on since 2000, and <br />
[http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/browse_frm/thread/80cdddd2757f48e3 this thread]<br />
on comp.databases.pick has some discussion on the idea of alternatives. [[NewWikiIdeas]] is a place to<br />
capture some of those ideas.<br />
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