Wiki Collaborative tool for building documents Anjesh Tuladhar

Why Wiki ?

Why Wiki

Once upon a time, there were 4 people working in an office…a draft is prepared and shared with everyone to work on it

Everyone worked on it and created their own version and emailed back to the team leader

Now the team leader has 4 documents to work on it and update changes

This is second scenario

The team leader changes the document and emails it to all saying “Please ignore the first one. Use second instead.”

The members have to work on both the document to reflect the changes. They struggle on...

Everyone emails to everyone. Everyone is struggling.

It doesn’t have to be like this! Use Wiki

It doesn’t have to be like this!

What is Wiki? A way of letting many people work on the same version of a document An environment that allows you to make any sort of changes to the document track those changes see who else has changed the document get a notification as soon as anyone else changes the document … An environment for a living document

A way of letting many people work on the same version of a document

An environment that allows you to

make any sort of changes to the document

track those changes

see who else has changed the document

get a notification as soon as anyone else changes the document

…

An environment for

More on Wiki… A database driven website An excellent tool for collaboration where we can easily make changes online Can give you fully editable websites Any user can read and add/edit content (e.g. Wikipedia)

A database driven website

An excellent tool for collaboration where we can easily make changes online

Can give you fully editable websites

Any user can read and add/edit content (e.g. Wikipedia)

Back in time… First developed in 1994/95 by Ward Cunningham Hawaiian word ‘WikiWiki’ means fast First named as Wiki Wiki Web Later shortened to ‘Wiki’ Cunningham said. " So after I did about 25 pages, I said this is really quick. And I was going to call it QuickWeb, kind of like QuickBase. Then I remembered from my trips to Hawaii the term wikiwiki, which meant quickly, quickly. I liked that alliteration: wikiwiki Web—kind of like the worldwide Web ." http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1939982,00.asp [ March 20, 2006]

First developed in 1994/95 by Ward Cunningham

Hawaiian word ‘WikiWiki’ means fast

First named as Wiki Wiki Web

Later shortened to ‘Wiki’

Types of Wiki Based upon how Wiki can be accessed Public Wiki Anyone can view, create and edit content Protected Wiki Anyone can view but only authorised can create and edit content Private Wiki Only authorised can view, create and edit content We can have a combination of all these in a single Wiki (use of Plugins/Extensions)

Based upon how Wiki can be accessed

Public Wiki

Anyone can view, create and edit content

Protected Wiki

Anyone can view but only authorised can create and edit content

Private Wiki

Only authorised can view, create and edit content

We can have a combination of all these in a single Wiki (use of Plugins/Extensions)

Uses of Wiki Knowledge management of many types… Documenting meetings Proposal development Recording experiences Developing reports Archiving documents Getting feedback on ideas Basically it can be used anywhere we need collaboration on a document

Knowledge management of many types…

Documenting meetings

Proposal development

Recording experiences

Developing reports

Archiving documents

Getting feedback on ideas

Wiki - a knowledge management tool We all do knowledge management everyday It is the lifeblood of an organisation Wiki makes knowledge management comfortable

We all do knowledge management everyday

It is the lifeblood of an organisation

Wiki makes knowledge management comfortable

Some important features… History Compare Revisions Recent Changes Discussion/Talk Page Watch List

History

Compare Revisions

Recent Changes

Discussion/Talk Page

Watch List

Feature: History All revisions are archived every time the document is saved Allows you to see who made changes to the document and when Easy to see if someone has tried to tamper with the document

All revisions are archived every time the document is saved

Allows you to see who made changes to the document and when

Easy to see if someone has tried to tamper with the document

Feature: History

Feature: Compare Revisions You can compare two revisions at a time The changed text will be displayed in different colours

You can compare two revisions at a time

The changed text will be displayed in different colours

Feature: Compare Revisions

Feature: Recent Changes Lets you see the most recent edits made to pages in the Wiki Gives you a rough idea of overall changes

Lets you see the most recent edits made to pages in the Wiki

Gives you a rough idea of overall changes

Feature: Recent Changes

Feature: Discussion/Talk page Used when collaborators need to discuss the document, post queries and so on…

Used when collaborators need to discuss the document, post queries and so on…

Feature: Discussion/Talk page

Feature: Watch List Anyone with an account may choose to be notified when a certain page changes using the "watch" feature and "my watchlist“. Is helpful if you are afraid that somebody will try to tamper with content you have created.

Anyone with an account may choose to be notified when a certain page changes using the "watch" feature and "my watchlist“.

Is helpful if you are afraid that somebody will try to tamper with content you have created.

Wiki Syntax?

What is Syntax? Rules and uses of grammatical construction, e.g. order of words In Wiki Means how to show formatting (headings, bold, lists and so on)

Rules and uses of grammatical construction, e.g. order of words

In Wiki

Means how to show formatting (headings, bold, lists and so on)

Some Wiki Syntax Simple syntax Single quotes to emphasise text 2 single-quotes for italics 3 single-quotes for bold 5 single-quotes for italics + bold Use = for headings Use # and * for listing Wiki provides a toolbar to give quick access to useful commands There are many more instructions for advanced users

Simple syntax

Single quotes to emphasise text

2 single-quotes for italics

3 single-quotes for bold

5 single-quotes for italics + bold

Use = for headings

Use # and * for listing

Wiki provides a toolbar to give quick access to useful commands

There are many more instructions for advanced users

Short Story continues…

They start to use Wiki.

Wiki! Wiki! Job Done! Wiki

They all worked happily ever after…

They all worked happily ever after…

Thank you Anjesh Tuladhar mycupboard at http://anjesh.blogspot.com If you have to, anjeshtuladhar at gmail dot com

Anjesh Tuladhar

mycupboard at http://anjesh.blogspot.com

If you have to, anjeshtuladhar at gmail dot com