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= Worries =
 * '''E-mail Habit''' - ''I prefer e-mail''
  * (./) E-mail doesn't scale - new people, new technology, new customers, new partners...
 * '''Shared knowledge vs. 'Owners'''' - ''I don't want to edit someone else's page''
  * (./) Wiki culture: nobody 'owns' pages, and any change can be built upon
  * (./) First person to create page is '''not''' the owner!
 * ''''No control' syndrome''' - ''This leads to chaos''
  * (./) Can be perceived as disruptive by upper management
  * (./) Soft security, audit trail, peer review
 * '''Wiki syntax''' - ''yet another language''
  * (./) Wiki is not more difficult than e-mail, e.g., just '''do it'''
  * (./) Use the help pages, doesn't take long to learn

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Wiki, a Shared Blog for the Corporate World

Writable webs empower people to share knowledge effectively and to be more productive

  • Wiki, a Blog (Weblog) for groups: Communities can organize and share content in an organic and free manner
  • If extended with the right set of functionality, a Wiki can be applied to corporate groups to schedule, manage, document, and support their daily activities

Conference talk at VCWI 2005 IT Seminar in Eindhoven, Sept 2005BR Jun Hu BR MailTo(j.hu@tue.nl)BR Slides available from [http://id00243.id.tue.nl/JunHu/WikiYourWeb]

What is a Wiki?

  • WikiWikiWeb = Writable Web

    • As quick to contribute as e-mail
    • As easy to use as a website

  • WardCunningham implemented the original WikiWikiWeb in 1995 to collaborate on software patterns

  • Inspired by HyperCard; some call it a Blog for groups

  • Wiki design principles:
    Open
    Should a page be found to be incomplete or poorly organized, any reader can edit it as they see fit
    Incremental
    Pages can cite other pages, including pages that have not been written yet
    Organic
    The structure and text content of the site is open to editing and evolution
    more

    WikiDesignPrinciples

What is a Wiki? (cont.)

  • The original WikiWikiWeb has these features:

    • Read-write web, every page can be edited using just a browser
    • HTML form based editing
    • Pages are served dynamically

    • Pages are linked automagically with camel case words LikeThis or words ["Like This"]

    • Simple markup, no need to learn HTML

  • Try the WikiSandBox

  • Over 100 Wiki engines based on the original Wiki idea, mostly open source
  • Wiki has geek appeal
  • Mainly used by Internet communities and academia

Blogs vs. Wikis

  • Blog: (Weblog)
    1. Key: Easy to publish opinions of individual in regular intervals
    2. Media to express individual voice
    3. "Post media" (like e-mail), sometimes with feedback and talkback

    4. Usually hosted service (e.g. Six Apart's [http://www.typepad.com/ TypePad])

  • Wiki: (WikiWikiWeb)

    1. Key: Easy to create and refactor on content owned by group
    2. Media to express group voice, deemphasizing identity of individuals
    3. "Refactor media", content may change at any time
    4. Usually open source software, installed on own server
  • Some Blogs have Wiki-like features, some Wikis have Blog capabilities
    • Merge over time?

Email vs. Wiki

attachment:email.png

attachment:wiki.png

email

wiki

Wiki Tools

Wikipedia

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Wikipedia (cont.)

Wiki Basics A

  • Wikis are collections of pages: attachment:wikipages.png

Wiki Basics B

  • Every page in a wiki is editable
  • Just click, type and save! attachment:wikieditable.png

Wiki Basics C

  • Every page has a name
  • Linking to a page is as simple as writing its name attachment:wikilinks.png

Worries

  • E-mail Habit - I prefer e-mail

    • (./) E-mail doesn't scale - new people, new technology, new customers, new partners...

  • Shared knowledge vs. 'Owners' - I don't want to edit someone else's page

    • (./) Wiki culture: nobody 'owns' pages, and any change can be built upon

    • (./) First person to create page is not the owner!

  • 'No control' syndrome - This leads to chaos

    • (./) Can be perceived as disruptive by upper management

    • (./) Soft security, audit trail, peer review

  • Wiki syntax - yet another language

    • (./) Wiki is not more difficult than e-mail, e.g., just do it

    • (./) Use the help pages, doesn't take long to learn

Questions and Answers

  • attachment:qna.gif

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