sr4proc working with wikis
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Working with wikis
WBI Social Reporting Apprenticeship Program
October 2012
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Definition
“A wiki is software that allows users to collaboratively create, edit, link, and organize the content of a website, usually for reference material. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites.”
Source: Wikipedia
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Working together on a document
pbworks
Write some text
pbworks
Write some text
change
editpbworks
Write some Text (someone, 12/11/08)
Change some text(another one, 14/11/08)
Final Text(me, today)
logpbworks
Finaltext
view
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Features
Articles can be created or edited at anytime by anyone – limitations are possible
Articles are editable through the web browser
One-click access to the history/ versioning page
Recent additions/modifications of articles can be monitored actively or passively
Easy to revert changes
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Examples
http://euforicweb.pbworks.com/
http://www.akvo.org/
http://wikigender.org/
http://government.wikia.com
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Use the excellent Pbworks help pages People are often puzzled by the edit function – it is the
key to using any wiki
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Garden regularly
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M&E
Most wikis have internal analytics package– On Pbworks
• Business Edition – weekly report (views, downloads, edits etc..)
• Free edition - Install Google Analytics
Measure– Users (joining, leaving, activity)– Pages and content (edited, created, deleted)– Who is creating content (1:9:90)– Is the wiki gardened regularly
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Hands on exercise
Create a new page called YourNameSR– If necessary, write some information about
yourself and add a photo– Add a link to your Twitter account, or a
website or a good knowledge source– Insert a table with two columns, write tools
you want to learn in one column and note progress in column two
– Embed a video from YouTube– Link your page from the participants page
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Working with wikis
WBI Social Reporting Apprenticeship Program
October 2012