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=== Encouraging wiki use in organizations === | === Encouraging wiki use in organizations === | ||
* Introduce progressively, encouraging the idea of progressive learning | * Introduce progressively, encouraging the idea of progressive learning | ||
** start with why wikis, wikipedia, the culture of wikis | ** 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 | ** create account | ||
** edit home page, add headings, lists, a link | ** edit home page, add headings, lists, a link | ||
** demonstration of formatting/layout, common.css | ** 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 semantic use - birthday, show on timeline | ||
** simple example of a class - todo | ** simple example of a class - todo | ||
* | ** facet search, narrowing down, copy and paste | ||
* Find out what their real problems are | * Find out what their real problems are | ||
* find champions | |||
* break wikis into sites "owned" by different people/communities | |||
* Ease of hosting | |||
* Don't pretend wiki can do everything, don't oversell | |||
* Alternative to uploading document - good summary, link to original | |||
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==== Key concepts ==== | |||
* play-doh - for wikis | * play-doh - for wikis | ||
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* wikipedia - well known | * wikipedia - well known | ||
* built on mediawiki, millions of sites, thousands of extensions | * 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 | |||