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=== Encouraging wiki use in organizations === | === Encouraging wiki use in organizations === | ||
* Introduce progressively, encouraging the idea of progressive learning | |||
** start with why wikis, wikipedia, the culture of wikis | |||
** good uses | |||
*** sketch out idea with links | |||
*** page management | |||
** show a few good sites - wikipedia | |||
** create account | |||
** edit home page, add headings, lists, a link | |||
** demonstration of formatting/layout, common.css | |||
** emphasize looking at markup examples | |||
** introduce idea of semantic, distinct content, resuse | |||
** few good sites - placeography, discoursedb | |||
** simple example of semantic use - birthday, show on timeline | |||
** simple example of a class - todo | |||
** facet search, narrowing down, copy and paste | |||
* Find out what their real problems are | |||
* find champions | * find champions | ||
* break wikis into sites "owned" by different people/communities | * break wikis into sites "owned" by different people/communities | ||
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* Don't pretend wiki can do everything, don't oversell | * Don't pretend wiki can do everything, don't oversell | ||
* Alternative to uploading document - good summary, link to original | * Alternative to uploading document - good summary, link to original | ||
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** | ==== Key concepts ==== | ||
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* | * play-doh - for wikis | ||
* structured | |||
* wikipedia - well known | |||
* built on mediawiki, millions of sites, thousands of extensions | |||
* emphasize control - no database management, open source, users can create data or can lock it down, import and export data | |||
* good opportunity to introduce and encourage adoption of creative commons | |||
==== Challenges ==== | |||
* Working with conservative top level management | |||
** "this is already happening" - examples | |||
* gaining critical mass | |||