An application wiki is designed to encourage ordinary users to develop a literacy in building real applications. In the same way that Wikipedia allows users to collaborate on text, the hope is that an application wiki would let users collaborate on not just words but real behavior.

The framework is loosely based on Ruby on Rails but uses a component pattern where users can author new components and inherit functionality of existing components.

The current framework provides a number of simple applications from instant turnkey chat-rooms to rooms where you can drag windows around and control the layout on the fly.

The ultimate goal is to have a fully transparent programming environment where as much of the environment itself is self-editable by the users.

Ideas here are drawn from Wikipedia, Camping, Hackety Hack, Mousehole, Squeak, Ning, Prototype Windows, PageFlakes and comments from R0ml at OSCON regarding an emerging new literacy.

See

http://appwiki.com

for an example.

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