reasons you should care about wikis

4four reasons you should care about wikis

nancy bray

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wi·ki (wĭk'ē), n.

A web site which anyone can edit

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Wikis in Plain English (Video from http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english)

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wikis are part of something big1

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broadcastexpert

centralized controlledindividual

conversationsynthesizerdecentralized opencrowd

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A Vision of Students Today(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o)

92wikipedia

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* free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

* volunteer project

* among top 10 sites since 2007

* over 2,000,000 articles in English

* leverages wisdom of the crowd

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“with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”

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London bombinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8O-hv3w-MU

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we need to listen

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what is our role in this conversation?

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we aren’t far behind3

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things to consider

* your organizational culture

* critical mass of knowledge contributors

* still needs an editor

* what is end product?

* implementation strategy

* ego

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just the beginning4

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lots of wikis

* wiki software available– www.pbwiki.com– www.wetpaint.com– www.wikispaces.com

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References

Slide 1 – Photo from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Chiodini_wiki.jpg

Slide 5 – Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/327577395/sizes/o/

Slide 5 – Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigatto/332193181/

Slide 12 – Eric Raymond quoted in O’Reilly: http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228

Slide 12 – Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/hi-phi/35449375/

Slide 14– Photo from www.istockphoto.com

Slide 14– Photo from www.istockphoto.com

Slide 18 - http://www.gcpedia.gc.ca/index.php/Main_Page

Slide 19 - http://government20bestpractices.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

Slide 24 – docs.google.com