Presentation forming part of WIKIS class for SILS course at University College Dublin SILS IS20090 Web 2.0 and Social Media: an introduction

1. Ros Pan Head of E-Strategy and Innovation, UCD Library Web 2.0 & Social Media WIKIS

5. Wikipatterns (available online via library catalogue) By Stewart Mader, Copyright Wiley Publishing, Inc. © 2008, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (US) STAGE DESCRIPTION Attraction The wiki needed to be “infectious”; it needed to support Google and other site ranking services to ensure that the wiki has prominence when relevant criteria are searched for. It needed to support short and human readable URLs to its pages unlike content management systems. Interest Once the site is reached, the “seeker” needed to be encouraged to stay and explore more. Desire The wiki needed to be engaging so the seeker explores more deeply into the structure of the site and develops a strong commitment to the idea that the wiki can provide meaningful solutions to the seeker’s needs. Action The wiki needed to encourage the seeker to engage, commit, and contribute to the content on the site. Retention The wiki needed to be “sticky.” It needed to provide real, social, and psychological benefits to return to the wiki often, to participate, contribute, and possible integrate into their day-to-day workflow. Expansion The wiki needed to be “infectious”; it needed to encourage and support the existing participants to bring in and engage other researchers and contributors who can enrich the project.

7. WIKIS – weapons of mass collaboration

9. What is a WIKI? http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =ZmByB0sIPog

10. “ A wiki is simply a website in which users can create and collaboratively edit pages, and easily link them together.” From Mader, Wikipatterns, Chapter 1

16. Brief history

17. A. Invented by Ward Cunningham 1995 with wiki wiki web platform 2001 book on the topic

19. Jimmy Wales (left) founder of WIKIPEDIA and Ward Cunningham, inventor of the WIKI Photo by Ross William Hamilton http:// www.wikiweb.com /

21. What are WIKIS used for exactly?

29. A selection of example uses in more detail

30. Examples 1 – Wikipedia and other reference resources http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html 20 minute talk from July 2005 on wikipedia and how it was formed

35. Wikipedia

36. Wikipedia – easy editing by anyone

37. Wikipedia – versioning available & ability to move to an older version and compare

38. Wikipedia – discussion on each article

39. Wikipedia – warning & vandalism area

40. Wikipedia – warning & vandalism area

41. Wikipedia – blocks on editing

44. Any fully open WIKI is vulnerable – here the Atlassian WIKI for Confluence users has some inappropriate material added to the wiki

45. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair 's entry was edited to state that his middle name was "Whoop-de-do", while the article page of John Seigenthaler , a renowned American journalist, was edited to suggest that he had been involved in the assassination of US President John F Kennedy . And in 2007, Ryan Jordan , one of Wikipedia's most prolific editors who had amended more than 20,000 articles, was found to be a 24-year-old college dropout rather than the professor of theology he had claimed to be. Wikipedia has more than three million English language articles, covering everything from episode guides for the television series Lost to accounts of important historical events. It is one of the most popular websites on the internet, used by around 65 million people each month. Wikipedia had to tighten up in 2009

46. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html

48. Britannica gone the other way and offering editing options – but checked first

49. Other serious reference WIKIS launched

51. General titles

52. Citizendium http:// en.citizendium.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Citizendium Started by wikipedia founder Larry Sanger who became disenchanted with it Here have to give real name and biography to edit entries but public can participate alongside experts Editor control on who participates and editors mark articles “approved” Slow growth 12,305 articles progressing toward editor approval or re-approval

55. Vertical subject specialist titles

56. WikiPathways http://www.wikipathways.org/index.php/WikiPathways

57. In the wikipedia tradition but… Specialist and narrow subject area Introduced a custom graphical editing tool Use PathVisio which provides basic palette of objects and annotations needed to represent biological processes. Integrated various databases into the application key point is the level of sophistication that can be built into a wiki approach….

58. Wikitravel One of Time magazines top 50 websites in 2008 Same Mediawiki software as wikipedia and many other examples use Anybody can edit the entries Narrow focus on travel guides http:// wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page

60. Examples 2 Medical and health care wikis

61. Example wiki – medicine GANFYD Get A Note From Your Doctor http:// www.ganfyd.org / Anyone can read Medical practitioners can edit Free medical knowledgebase

64. Examples 3 - Wikis in education

67. Wiki in education teaching examples Browse examples from http:// educationalwikis.wikispaces.com /

69. WIKIS and academic research example WikiProteins

70. WIKIS and academic research example WikiProteins Over one million Knowlets of biomedical concepts are present, selected from authorities such as the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) , UniProtKB /Swiss-Prot , IntAct and the Gene Ontology (GO) . By adding information to concepts in WikiProfessional, scientists expand an evolving knowledge base with facts, relations, associations and conceptual information. http://proteins.wikiprofessional.org/

71. Open Notebooks – UsefulChem Project running at Drexel University http:// usefulchem.wikispaces.com /

72. Examples 5 - Wikis in business & enterprise

76. Enterprise wiki applications Socialtext blueKiwi Jive Clearspace Customer Vision Mindtouch Deki Ramius TWiki

77. Enterprise products – wikis move on..

79. WIKI-centric Web 2.0 approach in enterprise From An Osterman Research Position Paper Published June 2007 Why Web 2.0 is Critical to Your Business

86. http://www.slideshare.net/bengardner135/meet-jessica

90. Finally… Finding wikis

93. Final thoughts