EDT 313
Fall 2009
Jessie Birnbaum
Suzette Ortiz
What is a Wiki?
•A free public or private server which allows and depends on its members to add or edit information continually
–Common example of a Wiki:
•Wikipedia- “The free encyclopedia”
•Used to create collaborative websites to power community websites for personal note taking in corporate and in knowledge management systems (Wikipedia)
•Allows for pages to be intertwined by links
•There is no ownership, therefore anything typed could be deleted or changed and the work can be read worldwide
History
•Created by Ward Cunningham on March 25, 1995
–Started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994, put it on the website March 25, 1995
•Got the idea for the name while in Hawaii when an employee told him to take the Wiki Wiki Shuttle Bus that connects to airport terminals
–Liked the name because it was quick and connected
»Originally wanted to name it “Quick Web”
•Became popular in free and open software community/specialists
•Grew from 1995-98, and snowballed between 1998-2000 when more uses were added including roadmap, threadmode, and Wikicategories
Goals
Directly from Ward Cunningham’s Website
Simple - easier to use than abuse. A wiki that reinvents HTML markup ([b]bold[/b], for example) has lost the path!
Open - Should a page be found to be incomplete or poorly organized, any reader can edit it as they see fit.
Incremental - Pages can cite other pages, including pages that have not been written yet.
Organic - The structure and text content of the site are open to editing and evolution.
Mundane - A small number of (irregular) text conventions will provide access to the most useful page markup.
Universal - The mechanisms of editing and organizing are the same as those of writing, so that any writer is automatically an editor and organizer.
Overt - The formatted (and printed) output will suggest the input required to reproduce it.
Unified - Page names will be drawn from a flat space so that no additional context is required to interpret them.
Precise - Pages will be titled with sufficient precision to avoid most name clashes, typically by forming noun phrases.
Tolerant - Interpretable (even if undesirable) behavior is preferred to error messages.
Observable - Activity within the site can be watched and reviewed by any other visitor to the site.
Convergent - Duplication can be discouraged or removed by finding and citing similar or related content.
Student Uses:
•Note taking
•Edit or add
•Group Projects
•Group Study Groups
•Link Topics
•View essays or works written by other students
Teacher Uses:
•Facilitate teaching/learning
•Cumulating Lesson Plan ideas
•Debate course topics
•Maintain class journal
•Provide a place for free writing
•Share resources such as bibliographies, websites, writing samples, conferences, and manuscripts
Cunningham, Ward. 2009. History. Wiki. Retrieved from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory
Cunningham, Ward. 2002. What is Wiki. Wiki. Retrieved from http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
Cunningham, Ward. 2009. Wiki Design Principals. Wiki. Retrieved from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiDesignPrinciples
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