Taking the Wiki WayUta Hussong

Reference & Instruction Librarian, UMBCMILEX Meeting

February 2, 2007

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Overview

Background Features/Conventions Pros/Cons Library-related examples

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Wiki Background

Collaboratively designed/edited web space

1995 WikiWikiWeb (Ward Cunningham)

Wiki – very fast

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Wiki Features

Sandboxes.

Easy… editing.

uploading or linking archiving of page changes.

Web (wiki farms) or client hosting Notification of changes (email. or RSS.)

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Wiki Conventions

Wiki page – individual page Wiki – collective pages or the wiki

software/engine Markup

no standard markup CamelCase for linking (early) [[ text ]] replacing CamelCase WYSIWYG becoming common Creole 0.4 standardization

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Why Wiki?

Highly collaborative tool Centralized (web) repository Easy (web) access by decentralized

group members “Fresh” look

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Why NOT wiki?

Security (wiki spam) Want complete control

Content Look/feel

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Wiki Examples (in/about Libraries)

Web-hosted Computers in Libraries.

Reference wiki.

Instruction class wiki.

Client-hosting Library Instruction Wiki.

User Interface Task Group.

Ref Training Wiki (Blackboard).

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Resources

Original WikiWikiWeb site c2.com/cgi/wiki

Compare wiki options http://www.wikimatrix.org

Wiki info collection http://library2.usask.ca/~fichter/wiki/

Wikipedia markup example http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cheatsheet-en.png

Wiki markup standardization http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole0.4

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Presentation Links

sandbox : http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Main/WikiSandbox page history: http://wikis.ala.org/acrlbaltimore/index.php?

title=Main_Page&action=history Email notification: see Slide 11 RSS notification: See Slide 12 cil2007: http://cil2007.pbwiki.com/ ref wiki:

http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/butler_wikiref/butler_wikiref Instruction class wiki:

http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/butler_wikiref/critic_r1?wpid=576446

OLA instruction wiki: http://instructionwiki.org/Main_Page USMAI UITG wiki: http://www.itd.umd.edu/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?

n=UserInterface.HomePage Blackboard wiki: see Slide 13

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E-mail notification<

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RSS Notification<

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BlackboardCourse Management

Software<