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| == Background information ==
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| '''Note''': This page primarily applies to Mediawiki, the software used by Wikipedia and many other web sites. | | '''Status''': Adopted on 6/7/07 |
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| Wikis are distinguished from websites by enabling easy editing and understanding of ongoing changes, often by any person but sometimes restricted. Wikis often use a [[Help:Editing|simple markup language]], rather than a word processor type view.
| | '''Source File''': http://webapps.phila.gov/council/attachments/3875.pdf |
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| The main wiki features are the ability to link to pages, create pages, see how pages were created, add pages to categories, and to view page and site-wide changes.
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| Wikis apply '''cultural associations''' and '''technical abilities''' to generate '''reusable content'''.
| | '''Resolution No. 070551'''<br> |
| | Urging Philadelphia to adopt status as a Pro-Choice City. |
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| Since wikis are a hypertext system, there isn't really one "index," users can follow arbitrary paths, usually by following links or browsing categories.
| | '''WHEREAS''', The City of Philadelphia acknowledges being a supporter and advocate for the advancement of women’s rights and equality, and in particular the women’s reproductive rights and freedom; and |
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| Wikis are well suited to brainstorming, since future links can be created easily. They're well suited to organizing information, typically by adding categories and sub categories.
| | '''WHEREAS''', The City needs to pride itself on being recognized as one of the cities to officially express it support for a woman’s right to choose; and |
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| Wikis can also become a front for wide involvement, although it's not usually expected everyone will become a full editing participant.
| | '''WHEREAS''', It is more critical than ever to make a unified nationwide stand for access to reproductive health care; and |
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| Mediawiki allows creating "templates," which are a way to re-use blocks of structure or content. They're used for infoboxes on Wikipedia.
| | '''WHEREAS''', Being a pro-choice city means creating an environment that is supportive of women, and making it known that the city is a place where women’s rights are respected and defended; and |
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Taxoboxes_using_extinct_parameters Category:Taxoboxes_using_extinct_parameters on Wikipedia]
| | '''WHEREAS''', Being a pro-choice city means promoting responsible sex education so that both women and men are aware of their reproductive choices and have the tools to make their own private decisions and take charge of their lives; and |
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| The appearance of wikis can be changed like many other Web systems.
| | '''WHEREAS''', Being a pro-choice city means encouraging the expansion of all forms of reproductive health care, including prenatal care, gynecological care, education and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, and reproductive cancers; and |
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| | '''WHEREAS''', Being a pro-choice city means defending the right to choose a legal and safe abortion as a final but critical option for women; part of a comprehensive set of reproductive rights that emphasizes the ability of the individual to make informed decisions from a range of reproductive choices and the ultimate control of the individual over her own body and her own life; now, therefore |
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| | '''RESOLVED, THAT THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA''', Does hereby reaffirm its longstanding position as a pro-choice city, and encourages other cities around the country to join us in voicing official support for reproductive rights. |
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| === Advantages of wikis===
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| * Shared content and structuring
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| ** Fewer isolated notebooks
| | [[Category:Women's Rights]] |
| ** Exchange ways of doing things
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| * Even read-only, can treat any web site as a toolkit
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| ** See all changes
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| ** Who did what
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| ** How things were done
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| * Designed to manage the content and perspectives of many people
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| ** Wikipedia & wikimedia projects leading the way
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| ** Awareness of issues like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_grounding symbol grounding]
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| * All content is in an editable multi-user, hypertext space
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| * Reusable
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| ** No lock in
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| ** Vibrant future
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| * Database features
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| === Disadvantages ===
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| * Have to learn wiki markup
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| ** rich text editors are available
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| * Simultaneous editing
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| ** learn to use section edit
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| * Forgetting to frequently save changes
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| * Associations with default appearance
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| == How (semantic) wikis can be used ==
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| * Personal content organizing
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| * Workgroup content management
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| ** Documentation
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| * Lightweight databases
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| ** Item management
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| *** People, places, things, etc
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| ** Workflow
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| ** Task tracking
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| * In the linked web
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| === Sample sites ===
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| * http://genozymes-ge3ls.ca/wiki/Proponent_Facet_browser
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| * https://energypedia.info/index.php/Main_Page
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| * http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki
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| * http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/SNPedia
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| * http://www.discoursedb.org/wiki/Main_Page
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| == Access models ==
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| * Fully private
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| * Read only
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| * Full read write
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| ** Anonymous editing
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| * ACL (with extension)
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| == Semantic wiki ==
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| [http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org Semantic MediaWiki] enables finer information re-use with database like features. | |
| * [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:SMW_History History of Semantic Mediawiki]
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| It uses the Semantic Web idea of "triples," where the current page is the subject, a link type is the predicate, and the target is the object. Objects can be other pages, or literals — dates, numbers, etc. These expand on Mediawiki links, using a syntax that looks like this:
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| * <nowiki>[[has example property::15]]</nowiki> this page (the subject) has a predicate "has example property" which has a literal value of 15.
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| * <nowiki>[[has next page::Semantic Mediawiki and the Semantic Web]]</nowiki> this page (the subject) has a predicate "has next page" which is "Semantic Mediawiki and the Semantic Web."
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| So, rather than cutting and pasting information that's contained in one place to "re-use" it, instead use a query, using the "ask" syntax. For example, to see a list of wiki users, you can add <nowiki>{{ #ask: [[Category:User]] }}</nowiki> to any page, which will be live updated.
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| External applications can also interact with wiki content, so content can be shared between wikis and other web sites. This is the idea of the "semantic web," where content across the web can be consistently found and re-used.
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| [[File:Bbc semantic page.png]]
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