Wikis In 30 Minutes or Less

Recent Headlines MIT Launches Center for Collective (Wiki) Intelligence Stanford Debuts Wiki of All Things Stanford Campus Technology News Update 10/10/06

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

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

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

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

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

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

Criticism of Wikipedia Questions of reliability and accuracy Susceptibility to vandalism Uneven quality and inconsistency Systemic bias Anonymous entries Wikipedia 10/10/06

Questions of reliability and accuracy

Susceptibility to vandalism

Uneven quality and inconsistency

Systemic bias

Anonymous entries

Wikipedia 10/10/06

Criticism of Wikipedia Preference for consensus over credentials Unconfirmed and questionable information Lacking proper source citations Small number of contributors Wikipedia 10/10/06

Preference for consensus over credentials

Unconfirmed and questionable information

Lacking proper source citations

Small number of contributors

Wikipedia 10/10/06

Wikipedia—Article Standards Neutral point of view Verifiable information only No original research Citing sources Biographies of living persons

Neutral point of view

Verifiable information only

No original research

Citing sources

Biographies of living persons

Wikipedia—Working with People Assume good faith Civility and etiquette No personal attacks Resolving disputes

Assume good faith

Civility and etiquette

No personal attacks

Resolving disputes

Citizendium New competitor Created by founder of Wikipedia Editorial control by experts/scholars Invited contributors No anonymous entries http://citizendium.org/

New competitor

Created by founder of Wikipedia

Editorial control by experts/scholars

Invited contributors

No anonymous entries

http://citizendium.org/

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

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

Setting Up a Wiki Over 100 engines available for developers 12 Wiki Farms for the rest of us We’ll look at one--PBWiki

Over 100 engines available for developers

12 Wiki Farms for the rest of us

PBWiki

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

Need three people to launch a wiki

a midwife to launch it

a champion to get them to use it

someone to monitor it

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

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