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Kathy Pham Georgia Institute of Technology 28 June, 2006. Wikis. Outline. Definition Media Wiki Comparing Wikis Future Goals Tutorial. Definition of Wiki.
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Kathy Pham Georgia Institute of Technology 28 June, 2006 Wikis
Outline • Definition • Media Wiki • Comparing Wikis • Future Goals • Tutorial
Definition of Wiki The word Wiki is a shorter form of wiki wiki (weekie, weekie) which is from the native language of Hawaii where it is commonly used as an adjective to denote something "quick" or "fast.” A Wiki is an interactive, collaborative website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change all content very quickly and easily. http://marvin_b_blatt.tripod.com
Why? • Makes collaboration easy • Increases visibility of work progress • Dynamic website
MediaWiki MediaWiki is a free software package originally written for Wikipedia but is now run on other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and many other wikis.
Comparing Wikis • Wikipedia • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page • Even you can edit this! • Can we believe everything we read on the web? • Tests on our server • http://hermes.bme.gatech.edu/wiki/pmwiki.php • http://hermes.bme.gatech.edu/wiki_database/index.php/Main_Page • Georgia Tech Swikis • http://swiki.bme.gatech.edu/MIBLab/ • http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu:8080/WUAB/ (uWomen@cc SWIKI) • http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu/cs1371 (CS 1371 SWIKI) • Developed by College of Compuing • OpenWetWare • http://openwetware.org/wiki/ • http://openwetware.org/wiki/MIBLab • Powered by MediaWiki (same program used by Wikipedia)
Closer look at OpenWetWarehttp://openwetware.org/wiki/ Promotes the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. Some Uses • Protocols • Lab Jobs • Ordering Some Participating Schools Boston University, Brown, Harvard University, MIT, New York University, Penn State University, Purdue University, Texas A&M, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, University of Washington…to view all, go to http://openwetware.org/wiki/
Future Goals • Wiki leader for CCNE • Wikis for all 75 faculty members in CCNE labs • Something similar to openwetware.org • Intra-lab wiki • GForge and Wiki • GForge has tools to help your team collaborate, like message forums and mailing lists; tools to create and control access to Source Code Management repositories like CVS and Subversion. GForge automatically creates a repository and controls access to it depending on the role settings of the project. http://gforge.org/
Tutorial- Let’s Play a Little • http://openwetware.org/wiki/MIBLab • Basic editting • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page • http://swiki.bme.gatech.edu/miblab • Just for Fun? • Ideas?