Wiki Resources

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Contents 1 History, Definitions, Concepts 2 Example Wikis 3 Wikis in Educational Settings 4 Recreational Wikis with Learning Potential 5 Wikis for Enterprise 6 Personal Wikis 7 Wiki Platforms 8 Post-Wiki Collaboration Tools and Platforms

[edit] History, Definitions, Concepts

• What is Wiki - The canonical definition by Ward Cunningham himself
• Wikipedia's Definition - Much less spartan
• WikiLand - Adventures In Wikiland: The Wild World of Wide-Open Web Collaboration. A presentation wiki by Brian Lamb of the University of British Columbia.
• Tracing the Evolution of Social Software - By Christopher Allen
• Wiki Engines - The definitive list of wiki platforms.
• Weblog Issues - Interesting list of concepts that emerge both in blogs and wikis
• Usage Spikes - Issues that arise in a classroom when everyone is editing the same page
• CommunityWiki - A wonderful compendium of issues that come up in wiki deployment
• Wiki Affordances - How simple changes in the software impact behavior
• Technology, Education & the Wiki
• Making the Case for Wiki - Analysis of history, attributes and uses of wikis in corporations.
• London Blasts on Wikipedia and Flickr Discussion about how decentralized resources can be useful to stay on top of fast moving events.

[edit] Example Wikis

• Wikipedia - The Big Kahuna of wikis
• Wictionary
• WikiNews
• WikiQuote
• Wikitravel - A wiki travel guide to the world.
• WikiHow The How-To Manual that Anyone Can Write or Edit
• The Tolkien Wiki Community Doubly geeky
• css-discuss Where the elite share lore about cascading style sheets
• EdGamesWiki - A collaborative project by students in EDTEC 670. Now dead thanks to a fatal wikispamming.
• Least Tale - Collaborative fiction writing
• Academic Uses of Wikis

[edit] Wikis in Educational Settings

• Teaching and Learning Online with Wikis
• Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not
• WikiRadio2's Top Ten List of Wiki Uses
  • Collaborative Planning
  • Collaborative Course Notes
  • Course Page
• OpenWetWare "is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering"
• CompsWiki
• Educational Wikis: features and selection criteria Swartz, Clark, Cossarin & Rudolph.
• My Brilliant Failure
• Writing the Wiki Project - Bemidji State University
• Using a Wiki for Documentation and Collaborative Authoring - Michael Angeles
• Turning Wikipedia into an Asset for Schools A lesson plan idea by Andy Carvin
• How to Use Backpack for School $5 a month for straight A's?
• Buckman Elementary School Password protected, of course.

[edit] Recreational Wikis with Learning Potential

• Perplex City A collaboratively produced Alternate Reality Game.
• Angels Never Come Down A play by email game.
• Lexicon: an RPG Role playing game built around a wiki

[edit] Wikis for Enterprise

• Blogs and Wikis: Technologies for Enterprise Applications? Knowledge management and more.
• Year of the Enterprise Wiki Short piece by Jon Udall.
• Championing a Wiki World Business Week profile of SocialText.
• How to Use Wikis in Business Information Week - Aug 8, 2005
• Enterprise Collaboration with Blogs and Wikis InfoWorld

[edit] Personal Wikis

• TiddlyWiki A reusable, non-linear personal web notebook
• TagglyWiki a taggable, reusable, non-linear personal web notebook
• Backpack Organize to do lists, notes, images, and photos
• WikiWeblogPIM Thoughts and links about the merger of three formats
• VoodooPad - VoodooPad is a wiki software that runs on your computer. Localized, offline knowledge management.

[edit] Wiki Platforms

• WikiMatrix.org is a handy wiki comparison tool
• WikiSpaces Cleanly designed free wiki space with discussion groups
• SeedWiki - SeedWiki provides free wiki hosting. Have your own wiki within minutes.
• SeedWiki How-to's
• PBWiki Make a free, password-protected wiki as easily as you make a peanut butter sandwich
• Schtuff Another free wiki host.
• MediaWiki - The wiki engine that runs Wikipedia and this Incubate Wiki
• PmWiki - This wiki software does not need any database. Relatively easy to install. Used on EdGames, and CompsWiki.
• TikiWiki - Wiki with CMS features like bulletin boards and blogs. Dan's choice for the WWI sim.
• DokuWiki - a standards compliant wiki, also with no database.
• JotSpot - Jot is a commercial product with word-like editing features.
• EditMe - EditMe is a new service that empowers non-technical users to quickly and easily build and host irresistibly editable web sites. Unlike existing web hosts, EditMe includes powerful features to enable multiple contributors to collaborate on the site's content. EditMe is great for use as a personal web site, company intranet, collaboration site, blog, or wiki.
• Web Collaborator - A free site for setting up collaborative writing among multiple participants. Looks very promising!
• Placeopedia - A bridge that ties Wikipedia entries to their location on Google Maps. Search for "San Diego".

[edit] Post-Wiki Collaboration Tools and Platforms

• Writeboard - Free collaborative text space with rollbacks.
• Writely - Collaborative web-based document software