1. Wikis Kathy Pham Georgia Institute of Technology 28 June, 2006

2. Definition Media Wiki Comparing Wikis Future Goals Tutorial Outline

3. 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. http://marvin_b_blatt.tripod.com

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

5. 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

6. Comparing Wikis Wikipedia –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page –Even you can edit this! –Can we believe everything we read on the web? Tests on our server –http://hermes.bme.gatech.edu/wiki/pmwiki.phphttp://hermes.bme.gatech.edu/wiki/pmwiki.php –http://hermes.bme.gatech.edu/wiki_database/index.php/Main_Pagehttp://hermes.bme.gatech.edu/wiki_database/index.php/Main_Page Georgia Tech Swikis –http://swiki.bme.gatech.edu/MIBLab/http://swiki.bme.gatech.edu/MIBLab/ –http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu:8080/WUAB/ (uWomen@cc SWIKI)http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu:8080/WUAB/ –http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu/cs1371 (CS 1371 SWIKI)http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu/cs1371 –Developed by College of Compuing OpenWetWare –http://openwetware.org/wiki/http://openwetware.org/wiki/ –http://openwetware.org/wiki/MIBLabhttp://openwetware.org/wiki/MIBLab –Powered by MediaWiki (same program used by Wikipedia)

7. Closer look at OpenWetWare http://openwetware.org/wiki/ 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 http://openwetware.org/wiki/

8. 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. http://gforge.org/

9. Tutorial- Let’s Play a Little http://openwetware.org/wiki/MIBLab Basic editting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_pa gehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_pa ge http://swiki.bme.gatech.edu/miblab Just for Fun? Ideas?