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Wiki What? Wiki Why? Wiki How? July 15, 2007 A Special Session presentation to:

Wiki What? Wiki Why? Wiki How? July 15, 2007 A Special Session presentation to:. Founder: Gregory Kohs 489 Lake George Circle ● West Chester, PA 19382 302-463-1354 (cell) ● gkohs@mywikibiz.com. WIKI WHAT?. A Show of Hands. Everyone raise your hand

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  1. Wiki What? Wiki Why? Wiki How?July 15, 2007A Special Session presentation to: Founder: Gregory Kohs 489 Lake George Circle ● West Chester, PA 19382 302-463-1354 (cell) ● gkohs@mywikibiz.com

  2. WIKI WHAT?

  3. A Show of Hands Everyone raise your hand • Now, lower your hand if you’ve ever personally installed and set-up your own wiki website. • Next, lower your hand if you’ve ever created from scratch a page or article using someone else’s wiki site. • Lower your hand if you’ve ever corrected a spelling error or otherwise copyedited a page or article on a wiki. • And, lower your hand if you’ve ever visited and read a page or article on a wiki website. • The following 4-minute video is for those people who either just lowered their hand, or who still have their hand in the air. • Everyone else, I think can still benefit from this simple refresher course that tells us – in plain English – why a wiki is cool. Used with permission from: Lee LeFever, the founder of CommonCraft.com Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

  4. Google searches News references Who Invented the Wiki? • Howard “Ward” Cunningham is a computer programmer who started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham in March of 1995. • You know I thought about patenting it 11 years ago, and I was a small company and I figured, well, if I got a patent then I'd have to go out and sell people on the idea that anyone could edit. That just sounded like something that no one would want to pay money for. …I also thought, well, if it is more widely used, it'll just be a calling card and a way for people to know me. It certainly worked in that regard. The word ‘wiki’ since 2004

  5. Wikipedia : Wiki :: Aspirin : Acetylsalicylic acid • For many people, the word “wiki” practically means the same thing as “Wikipedia” – the enormous community-edited encyclopedia that is structured upon the amazingly robust Mediawiki open-source software. • While it is huge and has had a profound impact on information and even culture, Wikipedia is merely one particular wiki, implemented with one type of wiki software. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Overview_FAQ#How_big_is_Wikipedia.3F

  6. English Wikipedia – it’s Number Four! • It came as a surprise to me, too. The English-language Wikipedia is only the fourth largest wiki on the Internet, in terms of article count. • Qweki (a crude, advertising-heavy listing of websites), Richdex (an intermittently working listing of websites), and AboutUs (a glossy bot- and human-generated listing of websites) all outpace Wikipedia in terms of sheer number of articles. • But Wikipedia busts them wide open if measuring: • Users • Administrators • Edits • Images • Page views (most importantly?) Source: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wikis

  7. And Wikipedia is nowhere close to finished Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACP

  8. WIKI WHY?

  9. AACP’s place on the web Once the AACP created a website, its “nearest neighbors” aligned themselves in a complex web of interrelated links. Within a wiki, the very same thing takes place. Schools are linked to corporations, which are linked to pharmaceutical formulas, which are linked to research scientists, who are linked to students, who are linked again to schools, etc.

  10. Why would my institution build a wiki? Wikipedia has proven that no open, community-edited reference is ever 100% reliable, nor immune to vandalism or partisan squabbles. However, it has proven that nearly 2 million encyclopedic articles can be written in less than seven years. Your school may not “need” more than 1,000 articles to constitute a very useful reference. Course Curriculum Who will write all this stuff? Lessons & Assignments Student Activities Policy & Government Will a wiki work? Scholarships & Financial aid Study Groups In and Around Town Can we trust the students (or faculty) to do it well? Student Bios Faculty Bios

  11. Who writes the wiki? People Patterns 90-9-1 Theory BarnRaising Champion IdentityMatters Invitation... Look Before You Leap Maintainer MySpace OverviewPages Social Tagging StartingPoints Viral Welcoming Wiki Charter WikiGnome WikiZenMaster • A WikiGnome is a person who performs small edits on a wiki to continually improve its overall quality. • WikiGnomes are important to the success of a wiki because their edits increase the value of everyone else's content, such as: • Cosmetic editing to keep the wiki from being overrun with "weeds" (typos, misspellings, poorly structured sentences and paragraphs) • Add or fix links to make sure relevant content is navigable within the wiki • Improve the flow and clarity of content improve the readability of the page • Setting an example for other users of how and when to use the wiki Source: http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/Wikipatterns

  12. WIKI HOW? …with Dr. Steve Weppner of Eckerd College, of course!

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