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What is a wiki?. S kills : none C oncepts : wiki examples and definition, operations, the wiki motto, wiki motivation and history, client-server applications. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Where does this topic fit?.

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  1. What is a wiki? Skills: none Concepts: wiki examples and definition, operations, the wiki motto, wiki motivation and history, client-server applications This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

  2. Where does this topic fit? • Internet concepts • Applications • Technology • Implications • Internet skills • Application development • Content creation • User skills

  3. Watch Wikis in Plain English (3m 40s) http://commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

  4. Wikipedia.org

  5. A wiki is a web site with a twist Any authorized user can view and edit it

  6. How is a wiki different from a regular Web site? 2+2=4 ugly simple collaborative

  7. A typical wiki screen layout Page viewing and editing area

  8. Simplified screen layout Select operation to perform Navigation pane Page viewing and editing area

  9. Editing a page Edit The page you are editing Save

  10. The wiki motto Improve the wiki with every edit.

  11. Client and server Server Client

  12. Ward Cunningham and the first wiki

  13. Summary

  14. Self-study questions We mentioned three differences between a wiki and a regular Web site – do you recall them? We covered five operations common to all wikis – do you recall them? What is the wiki motto? Why did Ward Cunningham invent the wiki? Can you find examples of useful wikis on the Web? What could you use a wiki for at school, work or home? Can you think of other examples of client-server programs? Make a wire frame diagram for the user interface of a program you commonly use.

  15. Resources Wikis in Plain English (3m 40s) http://commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english How college students use Wikipedia: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2830/2476 Evaluation of Wikipedia: http://delicious.com/lpress/wikieval Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham The first Wiki, invented to discuss programming technique: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki

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