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• Taly Sharon
• www.sharon-it.com

taly_at_sharon-it.com
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Agenda

• Wiki
• Wikipedia
• Tools/Services
• Enterprise Wikis

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Wikis

• Collaborative Authoring - Quick Edit 1995

WikiWiki Bus
Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham
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What makes a Wiki

• Collaborative Authoring
• Easy editing and changing (wikiquickly)
• Monitoring changes
• History
• Revert option
• Searching utility
• Problems Spam, Vandalism

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Monitoring Some Technical Notes

• The ability to roll-back changes to the previous
  version.
• The ability to compare different versions
  side-by-side.
• The use of differences between versions so that
  specific differences between them can be easily
  identified.

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Spam Prevention

• Restricting the use of certain words or phrases,
  using word lists or regular expressions.
• Blocking access based on excessive activity.

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Vandalism

• Studies from IBM claim that most vandalism to
  Wikipedia is removed in 5 minutes or less.
• In some cases it takes longer, as in the John
  Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy.
  
• In some cases, user accounts or IP addresses are
  banned from editing certain wikis, and certain
  pages may be 'locked', to prevent further
  vandalism.

http//researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/results.
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Blog vs. Wiki

• Blog
• Personal expression
• Ordered by dates
• Older posts not changed
• Have comments/ talkbacks by viewers

• Wiki
• Collaborative contribution
• Ordered by topics
• Constant update
• Have updates/additions by viewers

• http//betsysblog.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_betsysbl
  og_archive.html
• http//www.samizdata.net/blog/glossary_archives/00
  6470.html

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Wiki Tools/Services

• Tools
• MediaWiki (used by Wikipedia)
• Twiki
• Services
• EditMe
• Wiki.co.il (powered by WikiMedia) Free!

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TWiki

• An Enterprise Collaboration Platform
• Open Source Wiki
• It is a structured Wiki
• combines a Wiki and a database application
• easy collaboration, structured data, easy
  reporting, workflow, access control
• Flexibility to add free form content to
  structured content
• Deployed by Motorola, SAP, and more organizations
• http//www.twiki.org/

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Enterprise Wiki?

• Motorola is using TWiki
• Intel
• Used for technical encyclopedia
• Implemented using MediaWiki, integrated with
  Google Search
• Launched March 2006 (preceded by pilot)
• Supporting user training program
• Over 3,000 article
• 10 active users (edited more than 2 pages)
• Problems information security/need for a better
  permission mechanism

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Wikis Superlist

• Qwika.com Indexes largest Wikis www.qwika.com
• WikiIndex Index of Wikis www.wikia.com/
• Wikiversity Learning materials and activities
  www.wikiversity.org
• Wikibooks Textbooks wikibooks.org/
• WikiSource Free content wikisource.org
• WikiMatrix compare Wiki tools wikimatrix.org

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References

• Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org
• Hebrew Wikipedia he.wikipedia.org
• TWiki www.twiki.org
• The Mandriva Community Wiki http//mandriva.vmlinu
  z.ca/index.php/Main_Page
• The Motion Wiki http//www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/vi
  ew/Motion/WebHome
• Wiki Tools, e-learning centre, http//www.e-learni
  ngcentre.co.uk/eclipse/vendors/wikis.htm