1. Working with wikis
WBI Social Reporting Apprenticeship
Program
October 2012

2. http://euforicweb.pbworks.com/

3. Definition
“A wiki is software that allows users to
collaboratively create, edit, link, and
organize the content of a website, usually
for reference material. Wikis are often
used to create collaborative websites and
to power community websites.”
Source: Wikipedia

4. Working together on a
document
pbworks pbworks pbworks pbworks
edit log view
Write some Text
change (someone, 12/11/08) Final
Write some Write some Change some text text
(another one, 14/11/08)
text text
Final Text
(me, today)

5. Features
 Articles can be created or edited at
anytime by anyone – limitations are
possible
 Articles are editable through the web
browser
 One-click access to the history/
versioning page
 Recent additions/modifications of articles
can be monitored actively or passively
 Easy to revert changes

6. Examples
 http://euforicweb.pbworks.com/
 http://www.akvo.org/
 http://wikigender.org/
 http://government.wikia.com

7. Use the excellent Pbworks help pages
 People are often puzzled by the edit function – it is
the key to using any wiki

8. Garden regularly

9. M&E
 Most wikis have internal analytics package
– On Pbworks
• Business Edition – weekly report (views, downloads,
edits etc..)
• Free edition - Install Google Analytics
 Measure
– Users (joining, leaving, activity)
– Pages and content (edited, created, deleted)
– Who is creating content (1:9:90)
– Is the wiki gardened regularly

10. Hands on exercise
 Create a new page called YourNameSR
– If necessary, write some information
about yourself and add a photo
– Add a link to your Twitter account, or a
website or a good knowledge source
– Insert a table with two columns, write
tools you want to learn in one column
and note progress in column two
– Embed a video from YouTube
– Link your page from the participants
page

11. Working with wikis
WBI Social Reporting Apprenticeship
Program
October 2012