Emergenci Wiki

Global Response Effort Different Continents Different Countries Different Languages One Wiki

What is a Wiki?
A wiki allows users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site
A collaborative space
Seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape
Leuf and Cunningham, The Wiki Way

Wiki Categorizations

Free and Open Source Software
FOSS wiki platforms differ from each other by functionality, look and feel and target user groups.
FOSS wiki platforms are created to support various group sizes
Large MediaWiki
Medium TikiWiki
Small DocuWiki

Wiki Strengths
Collaboration from anywhere there is Internet access and browser
Real Time Updating
Anybody (or any approved member) can access and insert/delete/modify data
Search Engine
Free and Open Source Software Available

Wiki Limitations
Learning Curve
Layout
Organization of Data
Needs Facilitator
Ill Structured

Community of Practice defined
“Communities of Practice are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis”
Wenger

Community of Practice
Best Group to Leverage a Wiki
Organized
Common Goal
Needs to Use Prior to Response
Build Inventory
People
Capability
Supplies
Familiarity With System

High Reliability Organizations
As a CoP, are strategies best used prior to response on an ongoing basis
Errors or problems are never normalized, trivialized and passed of as non-consequential
An assertive approach tat seeks out various scenarios and how to best handle them

Present Emergency Wikis
Static – used more as a website
Not nearly utilizing the capability
Proactive not reactive
Non-responsive to a situation
Have not reached potential
Need to be Knowledge Exchange Centers

emergenciWiki.org Project
“ The purpose of this wiki is for a collaborative building effort through any knowledgeable individual or group affiliate who is concerned with natural or man made disasters, be they in the academic and/or industry.”

Future of emergenciWiki
What does the future hold for such a system?
Should restraints be used?
Is this the correct wiki software?
Does a wiki define it’s own purpose or is it simply evolving?

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Emergenci Wiki

by Connie White on Oct 15, 2008

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