Wikis in 30 Minutes or Less

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

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

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

Criticism of Wikipedia
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

Wikipedia—Article Standards
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

Citizendium
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

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

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

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

http://wikivideolibrary.blogspot.com	10
http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com	7
http://zafra543.wikispaces.com	5
http://www.slideshare.net	3
http://wikiempresas.blogspot.com	2
http://smithwebquest.wikispaces.com	2
http://www.ajaxlines.com	1

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