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    1. Wikis In 30 Minutes or Less
    2. Recent Headlines MIT Launches Center for Collective (Wiki) Intelligence Stanford Debuts Wiki of All Things Stanford Campus Technology News Update 10/10/06
    3. What is a Wiki?
      • A Wiki is a server-based collaborative tool that allows any authorized user to edit Web pages and create new ones using nothing more than a Web browser and a text entry form on a Web page.
      • WikiWikiWebs: News Ways to Communicate in a Web Environment
      • Information Technology and Libraries, March 2006
    4. What is a Wiki?
      • server-based
      • collaborative (with limits)
      • Web environment
      • no programming skills
      • create, organize, and maintain
      • Web site of automatically linked pages
      • WikiWikiWebs: News Ways to Communicate in a Web Environment
      • Information Technology and Libraries, March 2006
    5.  
    6. Wikipedia
      • Launched 1/15/2001
      • 5 million articles
      • 1,425,949 in the English-language version
      • 229 language editions of Wikipedia , sixteen of which have more than 50,000 articles each.
      • Wikipedia 10/10/06
    7. Criticism of Wikipedia
      • Questions of reliability and accuracy
      • Susceptibility to vandalism
      • Uneven quality and inconsistency
      • Systemic bias
      • Anonymous entries
      • Wikipedia 10/10/06
    8. Criticism of Wikipedia
      • Preference for consensus over credentials
      • Unconfirmed and questionable information
      • Lacking proper source citations
      • Small number of contributors
      • Wikipedia 10/10/06
    9. Wikipedia—Article Standards
      • Neutral point of view
      • Verifiable information only
      • No original research
      • Citing sources
      • Biographies of living persons
    10. Wikipedia—Working with People
      • Assume good faith
      • Civility and etiquette
      • No personal attacks
      • Resolving disputes
    11. Citizendium
      • New competitor
      • Created by founder of Wikipedia
      • Editorial control by experts/scholars
      • Invited contributors
      • No anonymous entries
      • http://citizendium.org/
    12. When to Wiki
      • An easy way to create a website
      • Allow users to update materials
      • Collaborative class project
      • Glossary/dictionary of terms
      • Project teams sharing info
      • Team members writing one paper
    13. Setting Up a Wiki
      • Over 100 engines available for developers
      • 12 Wiki Farms for the rest of us
      We’ll look at one--PBWiki
    14.  
    15. PBWiki
    16.  
    17. What Else?
      • Need three people to launch a wiki
        • a midwife to launch it
        • a champion to get them to use it
        • someone to monitor it
    18. Being Sucessful
      • Make sure people understand why it makes sense to share
      • Select right target group—will they communicate?
      • Provide technical support/guide new users
      • Encourage accountability
      • Allow users to create their own pages
      • Be flexible
      • From The Shifted Librarian 10/16/06

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