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Walking in a Wiki Wonderland

Walking in a Wiki Wonderland. LLSDC/SEALL Joint Meeting Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Presented by Ellen Callinan Axelroth & Associates. Database Forms. Training and Manuals. Why can’t we have kittens on the site?. Macromedia Contribute. Just send me your content!.

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Walking in a Wiki Wonderland

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  1. Walking in a Wiki Wonderland LLSDC/SEALL Joint Meeting Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Presented by Ellen Callinan Axelroth & Associates

  2. Database Forms Training and Manuals Why can’t we have kittens on the site? Macromedia Contribute Just send me your content! What shade of blueshould the headings be? CONTENT

  3. Why can’t we have kittens on the site? CONTENT What shade of blueshould the headings be?

  4.  WIKIS AND LIBRARIANS WHEN AND WHY WIKIS WORK WIKIS THEN AND NOW

  5. What is a wiki? • a web-based discussion site [LLRX] • a collaboratively-maintained database [Adam Smith] • a group-editable website [Social Text] • a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it [Wikipedia]

  6. Ward CunninghamThe Father of Wiki

  7. Jimmy Wales Wikipedia Founder Co-Founder

  8. WikiMatrix.org Today’s Wiki Landscape:Personal Wikis Use the Wiki Choice Wizard to figure out which wiki would work best for your own test wiki.

  9. Today’s Wiki Landscape:Business Wikis Enterprise Wikis Hosted Wikis

  10.  WIKIS AND LIBRARIANS WHEN AND WHY WIKIS WORK WIKIS THEN AND NOW

  11. Elements of a Wonderful Wiki Start with a group of knowledgeable, respectful, motivated people collaborating on a specific project who will: • Employ a third person neutral point of view (NPOV) • Link early and often • Be bold – the wiki mantra Add a wiki application software that: • Tracks edits and version control • Offers some level of security to prevent vandals and block trolls by IP address • May include frequency or reputation ranking to identify hot topics add credibility

  12. Wiki Success

  13. Seigenthaler Vandalism [Kennedy assassination claim posted in Wikipedia as a joke] Congressional Vandal Scandal [Congressional staff vandalized Members’ articles on Wikipedia] Colbert fans successfully plant “fact” that elephant population has tripled in last 10 years. Federal courts are citing Wikipedia 4x more often than Encyclopedia Britannica Wiki Disgrace

  14. Collegial group with a common goal Knowledgeable authors Ability to roll back to earlier version Protection against trolls and vandals Wikis Work When . . .

  15.  WIKIS AND LIBRARIANS WHEN AND WHY WIKIS WORK WIKIS THEN AND NOW

  16. Millenial mindset Wikis, wikis everywhere “Ignore all rules” changing Why We Should Care

  17. The Evolution of Wiki Rules

  18. Web Content Barriers and Website Solutions <meta name="keywords" content=“29 USC 207"> http://www.genericwebsite.com/mission.htm

  19. CONTENT Wiki Content Barriers and New LIS Solutions How will people find the content I’ve worked so hard to write? Where am I supposed to put my content?

  20. What Is The Navigation? Where Does The Content Live? Website Information Architecture www.domainname.com/folder1/folder2/file.htm

  21. Home Clients Matters Home Clients Matters Ellen’s Page Brand New Practice Group Wiki Brand New Practice Group Wiki Ellen’s Page Wiki Information Structure How Do I Know Where to Put Content?

  22. Website Controlled Vocabulary If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die. <title>Twelfth Night – Act I, Scene 1</title> <meta name=“description” content=“Twelfth Night, a play by William Shakepeare, circa 1602”/> <meta name=“keywords” content=“Shakespeare, play, comedy, mistaken identity, Orsino, Viola, Olivia, Cesario, Sir Toby Belch”/> How Will People Find My Content?

  23. Wiki Collaborative Vocabulary Folksonomies Labels Tags How Do I Make My Content Findable?

  24. Solutions From The Library A Place at the Table Scaffolding Collabulary

  25. Let’s Give it a Try! TASK: Design a project wiki to plan a library retreat. GOALS: Create a basic structure and set of tags so that project team members can contribute content and all library staff members can find and comment on developments.

  26. Landless Law we’re everywhere you are Background FIRM: 875 lawyers, 9 offices, 2007 merger LIBRARY:18 library staff (7 pros, 6 paras, 5 clerks) WIKI: 5-6 main categories with outline of sub-sections; set of tags to facilitate authorship and findability.

  27. GROUP TASKS • Break into groups of 4-6; appoint spokesperson • Define 4-5 main categories for content you’ll need to plan the retreat virtually • One group will read theirs; others will compare to their own and sort into synonyms, sub-sets or something unique • Add unique ones to original list; group votes • Flesh out sub-sets if time permits • Review Clearwiki sample pages

  28. Step One: Create the Wiki

  29. Step Two: Build the Structure

  30. Step Three: Add the Labels

  31. Step Four: Scaffold the Authors

  32. The End? Only the beginning . . .

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