Wikis Collaborative tool for building documents

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WikisCollaborative tool for building documents
Anjesh Tuladhar
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• Why a wiki

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Once upon a time, there were 4 people working in
an officea draft is prepared and shared with
everyone to work on it
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Everyone worked on it and created their own
version and emailed back to the team leader
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Now the team leader has 4 documents to work on it
and update changes
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This is second scenario
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The team leader changes the document and emails
it to all saying Please ignore the first one.
Use second instead.
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The members have to work on both the document to
reflect the changes. They struggle on...
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Everyone emails to everyone. Everyone is
struggling.
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• It doesnt have to be like this!

Use Wiki
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What is a wiki?

• A way of letting many people work on the same
  version of a document
• An environment that allows you to
• make any sort of changes to the document
• track those changes
• see who else has changed the document
• get a notification as soon as anyone else changes
  the document
• An environment for

a living document
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More . . .

• A database driven website
• An excellent tool for collaboration where we can
  easily make changes online
• Can give you fully editable websites
• Any user can read and add/edit content (e.g.
  Wikipedia)

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Back in time

• First developed in 1994/95 by Ward Cunningham
• Hawaiian word WikiWiki means fast
• First named as Wiki Wiki Web
• Later shortened to Wiki

Cunningham said. "So after I did about 25 pages,
I said this is really quick. And I was going to
call it QuickWeb, kind of like QuickBase. Then I
remembered from my trips to Hawaii the term
wikiwiki, which meant quickly, quickly. I liked
that alliteration wikiwiki Webkind of like the
worldwide Web." http//www.eweek.com/article2/0,1
895,1939982,00.asp March 20, 2006
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Types of Wikis

• Based upon how wiki can be accessed
• Public Wiki
• Anyone can view, create and edit content
• Protected Wiki
• Anyone can view but only authorized can create
  and edit content
• Private Wiki
• Only authorized can view, create and edit
  content
• We can have a combination of all these in a
  single wiki (use of Plugins/Extensions)

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Uses of Wikis

• Knowledge management of many types
• Documenting meetings
• Proposal development
• Recording experiences
• Developing reports
• Archiving documents
• Getting feedback on ideas

Basically it can be used anywhere we need
collaboration
on a document
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Wikis are a knowledge management tool

• We all do knowledge management everyday
• It is the lifeblood of an organization
• Wikis make knowledge management comfortable

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Some important features

• History
• Compare Revisions
• Recent Changes
• Discussion/Talk Page
• Watch List

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Feature History

• All revisions are archived every time the
  document is saved
• Allows you to see who made changes to the
  document and when
• Easy to see if someone has tried to tamper with
  the document

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Feature History
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Feature Compare Revisions

• You can compare two revisions at a time
• The changed text will be displayed in different
  colors

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Feature Compare Revisions
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Feature Recent Changes

• Lets you see the most recent edits made to pages
  in the wiki
• Gives you a rough idea of overall changes

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Feature Recent Changes
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Feature Discussion/Talk page

• Used when collaborators need to discuss the
  document, post queries and so on

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Feature Discussion/Talk page
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Feature Watch List

• Anyone with an account may choose to be notified
  when a certain page changes using the "watch"
  feature and "my watchlist.
• Is helpful if you are afraid that somebody will
  try to tamper with content you have created.

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What is Syntax?

• Rules and uses of grammatical construction, e.g.
  order of words
• In wikis
• Means how to show formatting (headings, bold,
  lists and so on)

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Some Wiki Syntax

• Simple syntax
• Single quotes to emphasise text
• 2 single-quotes for italics
• 3 single-quotes for bold
• 5 single-quotes for italics bold
• Use for headings
• Use and for listing
• Wiki provides a toolbar to give quick access to
  useful commands
• There are many more instructions for advanced
  users

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They start to use a wiki.
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Wiki! Wiki! Job Done!
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