LRC Wiki

Qin Wei

http://hive.lis.uiuc.edu/display/LRC/Home

About WIKI

• Wikis are a newer tool in the big group of collaborative technology that includes things like chat, email and web boards, and this class is growing all the time. In the "The Wiki Way", the founder of the wiki, Ward Cunningham, describes wikis in this way "freely expandable collection of interlinked Web 'pages,' a hypertext system for storing and modifying information a database, where each page is easily editable by any user with a forms-capable Web browser client".

About WIKI

• The features that make wikis so "easy-to-use" include; simple and quick editing and uploading of webpages, no need to know HTML, specialized text or WikiWords create the links, anyone in the world can change anything on a wiki, (although this can be managed) and tracking history that allows reverting to previous editions of a page.

Most famous Wiki

• The software is open source and free of charge.

• Twiki: http://twiki.org/

• Mediawiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

• http://www.wikipedia.org

Browsing Wiki

• View in Recently Updated

• View in Alphabetical

• View in Tree View (hierarchy)

Text Formatting

Browsing Wiki

• LRC Wiki index

Text Formatting

*strong* Makes text strong.

_emphasis_ Makes text emphasis.

??citation?? Makes text in citation.

-strikethrough- Makes text as .

+underlined+ Makes text as underlined.

^superscript^ Makes text in superscript.

~subscript~ Makes text in subscript.

{{monspaced}} Makes text as code text.

Text Formatting

bq. Some block quoted text

To make an entire paragraph into a block quotation, place "bq. " before it.

Example: Some block quoted text

{quote}here is quoteablecontent to be quoted{quote}  

Quote a block of text that's longer than one paragraph.

Example: here is quoteablecontent to be quoted

{color:red}look ma, red text!{color}

Changes the color of a block of text.

 Example: look ma, red text!

Header

h1. Biggest heading Biggest heading

h2. Bigger heading Bigger heading

h3. Big heading Big heading

h4. Normal heading Normal heading

h5. Small heading Small heading

h6. Smallest heading Smallest heading

Table

||heading 1||heading 2||heading 3|||col A1|col A2|col A3||col B1|col B2|col B3|

Makes a table. Use double bars for a table heading row. Note that each table-row has to be defined on a single line. The code given here produces a table that looks like:

heading 1 heading 2 heading 3

col A1 col A2 col A3

col B1 col B2 col B3

List

• * bullet ** small bullets

• # numbered

• {dynamictasklist:thingsToDo}

Link within the page

• First create the anchor {anchor:anchorname}

• Then • [#anchorname]

[^attachment.ext]or[pagetitle][pagetitle#anchorname][pagetitle^attachment.ext]

Link within the Wiki

• Also can create a new page in this way:

• LibraryResearchCenter

• It is called “WikiWord”.

Link within the Wiki

• [pagename]

• [custom link title|pagename]

• [custom link title|http://hive.lis.uiuc.edu/display/LRC/News+and+Announcements]

• [http://hive.lis.uiuc.edu/display/LRC/News+and+Announcements]

Link to outside

• [http://lrc.lis.uiuc.edu/]

• [Library Research Center | http://lrc.lis.uiuc.edu/]

• [mailto: leighe@uiuc.edu]

LRC HomeThis part of the wiki is an illustrative F-drive, where we keep important

information and place it in context for the purpose of institutional memory!

Unlike the Collaborative workspace (in progress work), the Home space is for final project pieces to provide examples of past work.

Remember the Wiki does not replace the F-Drive; it reframes F-Drive documents in context.

News Contract informationStaff Info Final Report informationSurvey information Templates and procedures

LRC Home Spaces• News – LRC in the news and other important info for

staff

• Staff info – contact info and schedules

• Survey info – information about surveys and final instruments as well as survey specific procedurals

• Grants/Contracts- info on creating contracts as well as examples from projects

• Final Reports – collection of final reports for all LRC projects

• Templates and procedures- research how-to guides, office skills overview (for training), tech support issues

Updating and Adding Content to the Home Space

• Survey contracts/grants should be added when they are accepted by the granting agency

• Survey instruments should be added once a final version is available.

• Survey documentation/procedures should be added once finalized

• Survey reports should be final versions

• Feel free to add to/edit content to reflect current practice

• Questions about what content goes where can be directed to Lauren

Wiki Uses

Collaboration area

– current projects – teamwork on projects before they are finished and moved to the static LRC Home pages

– staff pages – for attachments and other information you’ll need outside the LRC

– new ideas forum – as always new ideas for projects keep things interesting and well-funded!

Questions?Questions?