reasons you should care about wikis
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4four reasons you should care about wikis
nancy bray
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wi·ki (wĭk'ē), n.
A web site which anyone can edit
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Wikis in Plain English (Video from http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english)
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wikis are part of something big1
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broadcastexpert
centralized controlledindividual
conversationsynthesizerdecentralized opencrowd
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A Vision of Students Today(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o)
92wikipedia
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* free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
* volunteer project
* among top 10 sites since 2007
* over 2,000,000 articles in English
* leverages wisdom of the crowd
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“with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”
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London bombinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8O-hv3w-MU
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we need to listen
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what is our role in this conversation?
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we aren’t far behind3
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things to consider
* your organizational culture
* critical mass of knowledge contributors
* still needs an editor
* what is end product?
* implementation strategy
* ego
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just the beginning4
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lots of wikis
* wiki software available– www.pbwiki.com– www.wetpaint.com– www.wikispaces.com
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References
Slide 1 – Photo from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Chiodini_wiki.jpg
Slide 5 – Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/327577395/sizes/o/
Slide 5 – Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigatto/332193181/
Slide 12 – Eric Raymond quoted in O’Reilly: http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228
Slide 12 – Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/hi-phi/35449375/
Slide 14– Photo from www.istockphoto.com
Slide 14– Photo from www.istockphoto.com
Slide 18 - http://www.gcpedia.gc.ca/index.php/Main_Page
Slide 19 - http://government20bestpractices.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
Slide 24 – docs.google.com