Why the VIS wiki is an important tool

1. VIS Wiki
And the Wiki Week
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2. VIS Wiki | Timothy Daniel, Info/Web | info@visesn.org
Why?

3. Why?
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4. Why?
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5. Why?
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6. Why?
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Problem #1
Only three
people will
remember last
year

7. Why?
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Problem #2
Mandates are
short (average: 2
semesters)

8. Why?
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Problem #3
People join mid-
semester and
miss their
handovers

9. Why?
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Problem #4
How do you
compress years
of knowledge
into a few
hours of
handover?

10. Why?
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Result
Knowledge get
lost. All the time.
Example
You want to
organize a
Gotland trip.
Who do you ask?
Them? How?

11. A wiki is…
Convenient
• No need to search through the Drive
Exhaustive
• Evaluations and budgets are just part of the truth
• The devil is in the details
Alive
• Unlike static documents, it won’t get outdated
• Future boardies will update it (hopefully)
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How?

13. VIS Wiki | Timothy Daniel, Info/Web | info@visesn.org
Everything that is red should become blue.
We’re missing at least 96 pages.

14. Wiki Week(end)
Let’s meet at 16:00 every day,
starting Thursday.
• I’ll teach you how to edit the wiki (it’s simple!)
• You pick a topic you know about
• Your committee, a trip you led etc.
• You write everything you know about it
• Rinse, repeat
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15. Wiki Week(end)
Result:
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(You know, maybe)

16. VIS Wiki | Timothy Daniel, Info/Web | info@visesn.org
Yes/no?