Slide 1: What’s a Wiki?
Slide 2: What’s a Wiki?
Hawaiian
for “quick” or “informal” A webpage with content created by and edited by multiple users, with immediate results visible to all The software used to create such a webpage
Source: http://wikipedia.org/wiki
Slide 3: Interesting Facts
The oldest known wiki is the WikiWikiWeb, created by Ward Cunningham in 1995: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors Wikipedia saw a 154% traffic increase last year (Hitwise) Wikipedia was recently cited as the #1 reference source on the web (HitWise) Has spawned a parody site, the Uncyclopedia, filled with misinformation and utter lies: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/
Slide 4: How Are Wikis Used?
Collections
of articles or documents Themed booklists Collections of shared materials (Ellison dies, equipment, etc FAQs on a topic Collaborative student projects (i.e., poems, fanfic, art, book reviews...) Editing policies or other documents Scholarly communication Other???
Slide 5: Advantages
Anyone
can edit No HTML required Changes are immediate Pages and links are instant & automatic No one knows everything, but everyone knows something Many hands make light work Edits are easy to view and track Use Web Standards
http://www.webstandards.org/learn/faq/
Other???
Slide 6: Disadvantages
Anyone
can edit Misinformation may not get fixed immediately Unfamiliar style (no HTML) Mostly text, few bells & whistles Authority of authors questionable Fictional entries Citation can be challenging Other???
Slide 7: Why Do Wikis Work?
Everyone
owns it, so everyone is responsible and feels a sense of ownership Small groups of volunteers are very dedicated The cream rises to the top Wikis generate a culture of knowledge and respect Discourse is courteous Other???
Slide 8: When Do Wikis Fail?
Spam,
though discouraged and deleted, still rears it’s ugly head Disagreements occur Entries and threads get off topic Fictional subjects are taken as truth If you feel a sense of personal ownership over your writing, wikis are not for you! Pages not maintained may disappear Other???
Slide 9: Examples of Wikis
Slide 10: Wikipedia
Free
online encyclopedia with over 2 million articles in English on a variety of topics 350,000 contributors 25 languages 2 million entries Five times more popular than Google News, Yahoo News or BBC (Hitwise) Nearly as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.wikipedia.org
Slide 11: WikiNews
A
wikipedia spin-off that allows anyone to become a journalist http://en.wikinews.org/wiki
WikiBooks
Free textbooks and book-based texts, (similar to Cliff’s Notes), subdivided into books for youth and academic titles and projects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks
Slide 12: Examples of Library Wikis
Slide 13: LIS Wiki
The
Library and Information Science wiki that anyone can edit, with over 200 articles on topics ranging from advocacy to virtual reference
http://liswiki.org/wiki/
Library Success
Resource of best practices for libraries; articles on collection development, reference, technology, and programming
http://www.libsuccess.org
Slide 14: YALSA Wiki
Advocacy,
Committee Work, TRW/TTW
planning
http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Main_Page
Joyce Valenza’s Teacher Librarian Wiki
For use with blogs and photos
http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/
Slide 15: EDCO Wiki!
Web
2.0 resources
http://edcolibrary.wikispaces.com
WHS Wiki
– Waltham High School Wiki about wikis by Kendall Boninti
– http://walthamhigh.wikispaces.com/
Slide 16: CT Nutmeg Wiki
Student
selected (like the MA Children's Book Award from Salem State). Great model for online book discussion for students.
http://nutmeg.wikispaces.com/
Bibliotherapy Wiki
– Resources about bibliotherapy. Only a few booklists! Contribute!
– http://bibliotherapy.wikispaces.com/
Slide 17: ALA TechSource GLLS2007
Used
to promote the event, and then presentations (audio, video, ppt, handouts) were archived here. Excellent resource for Gaming in Libraries!
http://gaming.techsource.ala.org/index.php/Main_Page
WoWWiki
– Resources about bibliotherapy. Only a few booklists! Contribute!
– http://www.wowwiki.com/Main_Page
Slide 18: Resources
Slide 19: Web Resources
Wiki
Matrix, for comparison of wikis http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Wiki
Design Principles, a list of concepts by creator Ward Cunningham
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/WikiDesignPrinciples
Slide 20: Print Resources
Cunningham,
Ward and Bo Leuf. The Wiki Way: Collaborating and Sharing the Internet. (Addison-Wesley, 2001) Anja et al. Wiki: Web Collaboration. (Springer, 2005)
Ebersbach,
Slide 21: Wiki Glossary
Wiki
Farm – website that hosts wikis, so you don’t have to download, install or host anything on your own server, or worry about the programming end of creating a wiki. Wiki Gnome – anonymous poster who bats cleanup, tirelessly making minor edits. Wiki Squatting – using a wiki as free personal webspace
Slide 22: Wiki Glossary, cont.
Wiki
Tags – elements that add formatting, such as bold, italics, etc Wikipedian – avid contributor to Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, created and maintained by its users. Sandbox – wiki page for testing and playing Orphan page – abandoned page, often with no links Walled Garden – a series of Wiki pages that link only to one another
Slide 23: MA Summer Reading Wiki
Artwork, Booklists, Resources for the MA SRP
http://masummerreading.pbwiki.com
Slide 24: Basic Wiki Tags
* = bullet ! = headline ** = bold '' = italic | = box NewPage = new page (two or more words strung together with no spaces and capital first letters creates a new page and a link to that page [url|link] to create a web hyperlink
