Wikis Kathy Pham Georgia Institute of Technology 28 June, 2006

Definition Media Wiki Comparing Wikis Future Goals Tutorial Outline

Definition of Wiki The word Wiki is a shorter form of wiki wiki (weekie, weekie) which is from the native language of Hawaii where it is commonly used as an adjective to denote something "quick" or "fast.” A Wiki is an interactive, collaborative website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change all content very quickly and easily.

Why? Makes collaboration easy Increases visibility of work progress Dynamic website

MediaWiki is a free software package originally written for Wikipedia but is now run on other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and many other wikis. MediaWiki

Comparing Wikis Wikipedia – –Even you can edit this! –Can we believe everything we read on the web? Tests on our server – – Georgia Tech Swikis – – SWIKI) – (CS 1371 SWIKI) –Developed by College of Compuing OpenWetWare – – –Powered by MediaWiki (same program used by Wikipedia)

Closer look at OpenWetWare Promotes the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. Some Uses Protocols Lab Jobs Ordering Some Participating Schools Boston University, Brown, Harvard University, MIT, New York University, Penn State University, Purdue University, Texas A&M, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, University of Washington…to view all, go to

Future Goals Wiki leader for CCNE Wikis for all 75 faculty members in CCNE labs Something similar to openwetware.org Intra-lab wiki GForge and Wiki –GForge has tools to help your team collaborate, like message forums and mailing lists; tools to create and control access to Source Code Management repositories like CVS and Subversion. GForge automatically creates a repository and controls access to it depending on the role settings of the project.

Tutorial- Let’s Play a Little Basic editting gehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_pa ge Just for Fun? Ideas?