'How are wikis used?

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Summary of Session 1

Sylvie

  • Wikipedia: encyclopédie collaborative en ligne; fr.wikipedia.org/wiki used for documentation
  • ekopedia: encyclopédie pratique traitant des techniques alternatives de vie; fr.ekopedia.org used for documentation
  • wikipen: Wikipen propose de diffuser sous licence libre des textes littéraires, de tout genre et éventuellement illustré; fr.wikipen.org used for books edition
  • bibliopedia: wiki pour les bibliothécaires et les documentalistes;
  • biblio.wikia.com/wiki used for documentation
  • WikiIndex: annuaire des wikis; wikiindex.org used for documentation

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Martin:

  • Mediawiki where the editing is only on the text summary along with other changes
  • Desktopwiki e.g Tiddlywiki, tomboy. These are personal wikis
  • Wikipad is a personal wiki where content is created by the individual other than a group. The content can be on thoughts, contacts individual plans, to do lists and notes. It is a not taking application
  • Peer to peer wikis which are server less systems that allows wiki sites to be shared between peers.

Sharon:

  • WikiCalc is for creating and maintaining web pages that include data this is more than just unformatted prose, such as schedules, lists, and tables. It combines some of the ease of authoring and multi-person edit ability of a wiki with the familiar formatting and data organizing metaphor of a spreadsheet.
  • Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
  • Wikisource is an online library of free content publications collected and maintained by the community
  • Wikinews, is a free news source you can write
  • WikiWikiWeb is a forum where people share ideas! It changes as people come and go. Much of the information here is subjective

Jenny:

Leo:

Faridah:

Goretti:

• http://wikis.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php/mainpage: it is a Wiki for North Carolina State. It is a service that is available to current students , faculty and staff at north Carolina state University. • http://academics.skidmore.edu/wikis/Greek_Tragedy/index.php. It is for skid more College. it was established for the students in Greek Tragedy. Only individuals participating in the course are allowed to log in. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Penguin. It is a novel being written collaboratively. • http://en.wipedi.org/lyricwiki, it is a wiki for lyrics and provides a source where any one can go to get reliable lyrics • http://socialjustice.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/index.php A wiki to introduce students and the general public to a few of the most dynamic social justice organisation in New York City.

Angela:

Nynke

Wikipedia is a multilingual wiki which contains encyclopedia articles; which are being written and published by volunteers all around the world and are free to edit and improve by anyone.

Wikitravel is a wiki which provides a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide travel guide. So far 15,692 destination guides and other articles have been written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe

Wikimedia commons is a wiki database of 1,660,127 freely reusable media files to which anyone can contribute; making use of different (sub) categories, ability to edit and upload images

Open street map is a wiki which is creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them.

wikicookbook is a wiki, providing open content information on cooking books

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