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How to create and use wikis
Updated on 2009-11-12
Created on 2009-11-02
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Wiki vs. Forum
Wiki vs. Forum. a forum might be more inviting simply because people may be more used to that format. Many people have participated in an online forum/message board/bb, but lots of people have only a vague notion of what a wiki IS, much less have experience in participating."
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Fundamentally, forums and wikis serve different purposes. wikis are good for creating a relatively compact knowledgebase, but aren't great for building a community. forums are much better for allowing members to interact with each other, but the knowledge tends to be dispersed and somewhat lower in density.
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You can have them both. It is a trend now to have wiki at the forum. forum should be the primary site (in my humble opinion). Let forum members have access to the wiki.
I don't think anyone would be interested to edit your wiki unless your site is wikipedia or they have something to benefit out of it e.g. adding link to their sites.
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O'Reilly Network: What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One for Your Projects)
Complete instruction on creating a wiki
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WebTools4u2use - home
A wiki for school library media specialists to learn about cool new web tools, see how they can be used in school library media \n\n\nAnother collection of Web 2.0 tools and resources. Great for learning about Web 2.0.\n
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What Is A Wiki - TMBW: The They Might Be Giants Knowledge Base
What is a Wiki, editing, formating, templates, style guid, help.
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Open Thinking Wiki
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“Web 2.0 refers to a perceived or proposed generation of Internet-based services - such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies - that emphasize Internet-based sharing among users.” (Wikipedia)
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Computers, along with multimedia software and hardware, help us express our ideas as animations, video poems, slide shows, interactive movies, virtual environments, and other forms yet to be created. As we create these new texts, we are changing how we define literacy." -
Which Wiki Software to Choose - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
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- Programming language
- Ease of installation
- Security
- Permissioning
- Spam prevention
- Ease of use
- Cost
- Syntax
- Version control
- Ability to hold discussions
- RSS
- Ability to change look
- Permissioning
Important Things to Consider When Choosing Wiki Software
- Programming language
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Important Things to Consider When Choosing Wiki Software
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HowStuffWorks "Wiki Communities"
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Experiment: Changing a Page
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Working on WikipediaThe only reason that a wiki works is because
the community of people who work on it make it work. The community adds
all of the content, edits everything and polices the content to root
out problems. When the community is functioning well, it can produce a
tremendous amount of content that gets better and better over time.
If you are so inclined, you can become a member of the Wikipedia
community (or any other wiki community). You can contribute either as a
writer or an editor. If you would like to get actively involved, you
should first look at the Wikipedia FAQ, and especially the Contributing FAQ, to learn about the editing tools and conventions of Wikipedia. - 1 more annotations...
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Getting People on Board - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
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See my advice for building a successfull wiki at ALA Wiki: What I learned and what I’m doing with it (on my blog) and So You Want to Build a Wiki? (from WebJunction).
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So You Want a Wiki - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
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- PBWiki (free)
- Schtuff (free)
- SeedWiki (free)
- Wikispaces (free)
- EditMe.com
- JotSpot, (shuts down on January 15th, 2009, migrating to Google sites)
- SocialText (enterprise wiki)
- Netcipia (free and enterprise wiki)
- Wetpaint (free but can upgrade to remove ads)
Hosted Wikis/Wiki Farms (your wiki on another company's servers)
- PBWiki (free)
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- PBWiki (free)
- Schtuff (free)
- SeedWiki (free)
- Wikispaces (free)
- EditMe.com
- JotSpot, (shuts down on January 15th, 2009, migrating to Google sites)
- SocialText (enterprise wiki)
- Netcipia (free and enterprise wiki)
- Wetpaint (free but can upgrade to remove ads)
Hosted Wikis/Wiki Farms (your wiki on another company's servers)
- PBWiki (free)
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HowStuffWorks "Vandalism and Edit Wars"
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- WikiTravel
- WikiHow
- Wiktionary
- SwitchWiki - a large directory of wikis
Many Topics, Many Wikis
There are thousands of other wikis on the Internet now. As a genre, wiki sites are growing rapidly. Here are several examples: -
- It is easy for anyone who sees vandalism to revert pages back to a pre-vandalism state.
- It is easy for any user to alert the rest of the Wikipedia community to vandalism that is in progress.
- It is possible for an admin to block or ban users (or IP addresses) who are persistently destructive.
- It is possible for an admin to protect a page temporarily to keep people from changing it.
- It is possible for an admin to delete an inappropriate page.
there are tools that make it easy for the community to find and remove vandalism. There are also other tools available on Wikipedia to help corral users who are persistently destructive. For example:
Tools like these make it easy for members of the community to quickly eliminate vandalism and prevent vandals from coming back.
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HowStuffWorks "Understanding Wikipedia"
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Editing in WikipediaWhen you edit Wikipedia, you do so using something
called "Wikitext." For normal paragraphs of text, you simply insert the
text. For special features like headings, lists, italics, etc., you use
special character combinations. For example, if you place two equals
signs at the beginning of a line ("=="), it means that you want to
create a heading. To learn the symbols, looked at the page on editing.
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