Introduction to Wikis

Introduction to Wikis 4 December 2008

What is a Wiki?
"A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Basic Principles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wiki_software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Universal_Edit_Button
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Markup_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ CamelCase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Changelog

Concepts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikinomics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The_Long_Tail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Collective_intelligence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wisdom_of_Crowds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Crowdsourcing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Web_2.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Massively_distributed_collaboration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Mass_Collaboration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Online_collaboration
Participants

Types of Wikis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Structured_wiki (vs Unstructured)
Approved (e.g. Citizendium) vs moderated (e.g. Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Semantic_wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikinews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikibooks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wiktionary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Comparison_of_wiki_farms

And many more...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Hype_cycle

Commonplace Gartner predicts that wikis - such as the popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia - should become commonplace in at least 50 percent of enterprises worldwide within the next four years. 7 June 2005

Corporate Positioning databases wiki CMS network drives group mailboxes intranets web portals extranets

What for? Collaborate Cooperate Codesign Cocreate Edit Review Improve Contribute Contextualize Comment Develop Collect

Dynamics
Traditional Content Mgmt
Privacy

Ownership

Hierarchy
Authority
Copyright
Individuals
Wikis Open Access

Sharing

Relations

Legitimacy

Public Domain

Community

ROI "What is important cannot always be measured and what can be measured is not always important." Albert Einstein

Practical Benefits Speed (time saving, capture, feedback) Flexibility (linking, embedding, distributing) Reactivity (1-click edit) Fluidity (web vs docs) Frequency (updates via feeds vs email) Visibility Quality

Business Benefits Creation of Value Knowledge Transfer Collective Knowledge Scope Decentralized vs Centralized Intelligence Context vs Dispersed Information Who are the Real Experts?

Social Benefits Autonomy Feeling of Belonging Team Spirit Recognition Learning Social Objects Connections

How to Sell it? One Place to Go Dead Easy Community Driven Recognized Organized Searchable

Introduction to Wikis

by Olivier Tripet on Nov 17, 2010

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