MineZone Wiki

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• the importance of wikiwords is that they are automatically linked anywhere the wikiword appears
• consider adding CSS information
• be ready with more detailed security information
• emphasis that different wikis have different features
• consider a section on accessibility

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Introduction

• Wiki Features
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Uses
• Q&A

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• In relation to other tools

What Is A Wiki?

• collaborative website anyone can update
• pronounced "weekee" or "wickie"
• wikiwiki is Hawaiian for quick
• both the software & the site

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• web server program
  • multiple users
  • collaborate
  • web site
  • any user to create or edit any page
• the software is sometimes called the wiki engine
• first developed by Ward Cunningham in 1995

Key Wiki Features

• anyone can edit using a web browser
• HTML's power, but with simple syntax
• automatic linking of Wiki Words
• change tracking

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• mention wiki sandbox
• ordered lists, unordered lists, tables
• freelinking
• mention using "recent changes" for keeping up to date

Key PmWiki Features

• easy to set up, maintain, & upgrade
• flexible page grouping
• security enhancements: password protection & email notification
• free links
• file attachments
• open source

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• simple text files to back up, no database; easy searching
• can restrict viewing and/or editing
• eases password administration
• actively developed and frequently updated

Wiki Disadvantages

• text-centric
• not portable
• anyone can edit it

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• graphics and attachments are possible, but not central to the design
• contrast to books, not skimable
  • but in a *computer* lab, that is not as important

Advantages Over Other Tools

• cheap
• easy to learn
• more up to date
• collaborative
• searchable
• no bottlenecks

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• but that can be balanced by password protection and/or monitoring

Wiki Uses

• project management
  • announcements
  • to-do lists & status summaries
  • meeting agendas & notes
• documentation
• collaboration

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• benefit of multiple points of view; time flexible [out of sync]

Describe Questions here.

For More Information

Interesting Wikis

• Original Wiki - created by Ward Cunningham
• Wikipedia - a collaborative Encyclopedia
• World66 - a wiki travel guidebook
• Meatball Wiki - a wiki centered around online community
• EdTechWiki - a wiki devoted to educational technology

Example Wiki Engines

• Top Ten Wiki Engines
• PmWiki - currently used by Student Computing lab
• TWiki
• KwikiKwiki
• MoinMoin
• PhpWiki
• Tiny Wiki - a Wiki in under 100 lines of Perl code

Book

• The Wiki Way: Collaboration and Sharing on the Internet by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham

Articles

• Wiki Research Bibliography -- a wiki-based list of wiki research articles
• Wiki Research Bibliography -- another collection of wiki research articles
• Wikis Described in Plain English
• My Brilliant Failure: Wikis In Classrooms
• Teaching and learning online with wikis
• Virtues Of Wiki
• Everyone Is An Editor
• Wiki and the Perfect Camping Trip - a great example of how a wiki can be used for collaboration

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