What is Wiki?
As I understand it, Wiki is a way of creating a web page where the users, that means anyone, can create, edit and delete anything on a page. Don't like what someone else has to say, replace it with your own ideas. Hate the colors or the format, give it your own flair. Have some good ideas, add to the conversation.
I've read about Wikis off and on for a couple of years. Digging deeper into the wiki idea I was surprised to discover that the first wiki web site was started in 1995. Where have I been?
Pete raised the idea of using a wiki in our meeting today. I'm interested to find out more and to see if this technology could help organize UEN work flow. I offer these wiki design principles as a starting place. Forgive me if you are already plugged in and I'm telling you about something that you already understand.
Wiki Design Principles:
Open - Should a page be found to be incomplete or poorly organized, any reader can edit it as they see fit. This means any reader!
Incremental - Pages can cite other pages, including pages that have not been written yet.
Organic - The structure and text content of the site is 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.
Wiki Design Principles
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