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Social Software: Wikis
Darlene Fichter, Data Library Coordinator, U of S Library
November 28, 2005ACCOLEDS/DLI Training
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Darlene Fichter
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Collaboration Happens at Different Levels
Community level– Relatively intense interactions– Rheingold - “enough people carry on public discussions long
enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace."
Network level– Interaction based around a topic or subject
Team level– Based around a project, task, process
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U of S Weblog Initiative
I worked with the campus IT project team on:– Software selection– Policy– Promotion– Training– Stage: “soft rollout”
UThink – University of Minnesota (library led institution wide)
blog.lib.umn.edu Embedded “blog this” in the licensed database results like links to citation
manager
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The University of Warwick: Statistics
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk
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Aggregate Tags for Your CommunityUniversity of Warwick Launch fall 2004
Blogs 3,622
Posts 47,872
Comments 110,784
Tags 4,654
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Small Team Blog – Data Library
Software: Movable Type
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Wiki
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What is a “Wiki”?
Web application invented by Ward Cunningham in 1994 that allows anyone to add content and anyone to edit it. “It’s a tool for collaboration, really, we don’t know quite
what it is but it’s a fun way of communicating asynchronously across the network”.
Wiki means “quick” in Hawaiian
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Wiki’s Characteristics
Intended to be simple so you can focus on the writing, not the mechanics and syntax
No HTML required
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Wikis: Collections of Pages
Home Page Contact Us Products RFPs
edit edit editedit
Wiki pages look like web pagesAnyone with a web browser can read a wiki site
Illustrations adapted from Guillaume du Gardier. What is a wiki? June 2, 2005
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Click, Write and Save
edit editsave
...KMWorld 2005
…KMWorld 2005
Anyone can undo any change at any time
Anyone with a web browser can edit a wiki site
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Create a new page by writing its name in CamelCase, called a WikiName
Creating New Pages
Title
… NewName …
edit edit
NewName
Click on any WikiName to see pages that link to it
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Wiki Design Principles
Openness and trust – if a page is incomplete or inaccurate anyone can edit it
Incremental – pages can cite other pages, even those not yet written
Observable– you can see the changes being made
Organic– site structure is up to everyone and it will evolve and change
More principles…
Wiki Design Principleshttp://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiDesignPrinciples
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Wiki (Jotspot) Anatomy: Features
Attach a File
Import Word
Emails
Send an Email
Make a comment
Inviteusers
Changesvia RSS
Search
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Wiki Examples: Wikipedia
www.wikipedia.org
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Wikipedia: Recent Changes
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Wikipedia in Action
London bombing, time lapse for Wikipedia changesEmergent Information
The Day Citizen Media Went Mainstream, July 11, 2005 http://thelastminute.typepad.com/blog/2005/07/the_day_citizen.html
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Wikipedia: Viewing History
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Wiki Gardeners
Person who goes around tidying up the wiki, pruning, editing, organizing, and cleaning up
Usually liked and respected
On a wiki, you might want to assign this role.
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Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
http://www.libsuccess.org
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Ohio University Biz Wiki
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/index.php/Main_Page
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University of Connecticut Staff Wiki
http://wiki.lib.uconn.edu/wiki/Main_Page
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Butler WikiRef
http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/butler_wikiref/
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Other Social Software Examples
Social Bookmark Tools– Furl - www.furl.net– Connotea - www.connotea.org (aimed at academic,
software is open source and you can install locally)– del.icio.us - www.del.icio.us
sharing, tagging and subscribing to other bookmarksrecommends other sites to you based on your profile
Flickr - www.flckr.com - sharing and tagging photosTechnorati - www.technorati.com - search blogs, or
switch and search "tags"
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Thank you
Questions?
Darlene Fichter University of Saskatchewan Libraries
library.usask.ca/~fichter/