Wiki Workspace

Robert D. Cormia

Foothill College

Wiki Concepts

• Wiki workspace

• Wiki projects

• Wiki software

• Wiki patterns (process)

• Wiki communities

What is a Wiki?

• Shared writing environment

• Collaborative writing process

• Dynamic document management

• HTML output, pseudo-text editor

• Supports links, images, multimedia

Wikipedia

• Ten year old project

• Fourth most visited website

• Community of Wikipedians

• Social process in editing

• High conformity process

Wiki-projects

• Supporting teams

• Technical documents

• Community documents

• Changing facts or ideas

• Books or even courses

Building Wiki Teams

• Wikipatterns

• Groups that write together

• Practice in Google Docs

• Be sensitive to ‘style’

• Do not over edit / revert