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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Must be online to edit or read a page. You can <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">copy </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">page to read offline</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">So </del>it is not a good tool for people who have to write together but aren’t often online<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. Then it is better to send documents which can be worked on offline</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Must be online to edit or read a page. You can <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">however download </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">relevant article as a pdf file</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thus, </ins>it is not a good tool for people who have to write together but aren’t often online.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*Not a replacement for libraries. If you use a wiki instead of a document library, you have to copy all the document text into a page and manually link it to the appropriate pages. It is harder for people to download information and read offline. So if you have a lot of documents and not a lot of people online, consider a document library. However, you can use a wiki to make a nice front page for your library.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Can get messy if you don’t have a practice of “wiki gardening.” If you make a lot of pages, for example, and don’t link them to other pages, they become hard to find or “orphaned.” If people don’t delete out of date text, a page becomes useless.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Can get messy if you don’t have a practice of “wiki gardening.” If you make a lot of pages, for example, and don’t link them to other pages, they become hard to find or “orphaned.” If people don’t delete out of date text, a page becomes useless.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Does not emphasize who wrote what and when, so if that is important, a wiki may not be a good choice. In a wiki, the focus is on the content, rather than who wrote it or when they wrote it.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Does not emphasize who wrote what and when, so if that is important, a wiki may not be a good choice. In a wiki, the focus is on the content, rather than who wrote it or when they wrote it.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Ranishahttps://help.energypedia.info/index.php?title=What%27s_a_Wiki&diff=2839&oldid=prevRanisha: /* Why should I use this? */2015-02-06T13:33:51Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Why should I use this?</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Editing an article within a wiki is easy. This allows the wiki-users to keep information up to date, to correct articles published by other users or to add more relevant information to it by adding text or linking an other relevant article, or explanation.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Editing an article within a wiki is easy. This allows the wiki-users to keep information up to date, to correct articles published by other users or to add more relevant information to it by adding text or linking an other relevant article, or explanation.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It is for example not necessary to explain in detail what options and strategies there are in [https://energypedia.info/wiki/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cooking_with_Sun </del>solar cooking] in different documents if it has been defined once and is now linked to the text. This prevents [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy redundancy] and allows users to concentrate on the topic ore to gain more surrounding information - as he or she likes.<br/>If a page with specific content is linked to several pages, and the specific content is one that changes over time, the information must only be updated in one single document instead of all documents where it occurs. So if there were new technologies in solar cooking they could just be added to the document that already exists and the information would be available from all the documents that it is linked to.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It is for example not necessary to explain in detail what options and strategies there are in [https://energypedia.info/wiki/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cooking_with_the_Sun </ins>solar cooking] in different documents if it has been defined once and is now linked to the text. This prevents [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy redundancy] and allows users to concentrate on the topic ore to gain more surrounding information - as he or she likes.<br/>If a page with specific content is linked to several pages, and the specific content is one that changes over time, the information must only be updated in one single document instead of all documents where it occurs. So if there were new technologies in solar cooking they could just be added to the document that already exists and the information would be available from all the documents that it is linked to.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A '''wiki''' is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. At its core, a wiki is a simple online database in which each page is easily edited by any user with a Web browser; no special software or third party webmaster is needed to post content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. Each article contains a discussion page where editors and readers can talk about the document. By looking at the history of a page, users can track changes and compare the versions of a document. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/collaborative_writing collaborative writing] . A wiki's versioning capability can show the evolution of thought processes as contributors interact with content, helping us to focus more on content and less on who is contributing what. This can be a big culture change. It takes a while to get used to the idea that someone else can change what you wrote. But that also means they can IMPROVE it! So it is a bit like thinking together. Obsolete material needs to be removed.</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wikis are often used&nbsp;to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The pages within a wiki can and should be linked to other relevant pages within and/or outside the wiki. The collaborative encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] </del>is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">one of the best-known wikis</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work"</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">He was looking for the simplest possible tool to help a group of people share information they were using in a collaborative project. By the way, "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". Moreover, '''"wiki" '''can also be expanded to'''"<span style</del>=<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"color: rgb(255,0,0)">W</span>hat <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">K</span>now<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span>s..."''' but this is a backronym.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">= A Wiki </ins>is... =</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[File:Energypedia - What is a wiki.JPG|left|262px|alt=Energypedia - What is a wiki.JPG]]A '''wiki''' is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. At its core, a wiki is a simple online database in which each page is easily edited by any user with a Web browser; no special software or third party webmaster is needed to post content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">== Why should I use this?<br/> ==</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A wiki's versioning capability can show the evolution of thought processes as contributors interact with content, helping us to focus more on content and less on who is contributing what. This can be a big culture change. It takes a while to get used to the idea that someone else can change what you wrote. But that also means they can IMPROVE it! So it is a bit like thinking together. Obsolete material needs to be removed.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">intention is </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">replace long monolithic documents by small '''</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">linked-''' information units </del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This makes it easier </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">navigate through large documents </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">find wanted information and further </del>information.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. </ins>The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pages within a wiki can and should be linked </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">other relevant pages within and/or outside the wiki. The collaborative encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] is one of the best</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known wikis</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wikis are used in business </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">provide intranet </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". He was looking for the simplest possible tool to help a group of people share </ins>information <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">they were using in a collaborative project</ins>.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Editing an article within a </del>wiki is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">easy. This allows the wiki-users to keep information up to date, to correct articles published by other users or to add more relevant information to it by adding text or linking an other relevant article, or explanation</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">By the way, "</ins>wiki<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">" </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a Hawaiian word for "fast"</ins>.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''E.g.''': It is not necessary to explain in detail what options and strategies there are in [[4.1 Cooking with Sun|solar cooking]]&nbsp;in different documents if it has been defined once and is now linked to the text. This prevents [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy redundancy] and allows users to concentrate on the topic ore to gain more surrounding information - as he or she likes.</del><br/><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">If a page with specific content is linked to several pages, and the specific content is one that changes over time, the information must only be updated in one single document instead of all documents where it occurs. So if there were new technologies in solar cooking they could just be added to the document that already exists and the information would be available from all the documents that it is linked to.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><br/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">More reasons for using wikis arise from the needs of&nbsp;[http:</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management knowledge-] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management project-] management.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">= Why should I use this?<br</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">> =</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Besides storing and providing </del>information <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a wiki can be used as a tool for knowledge generation and allocation as well as a project planning tool</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It also </del>makes it <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">possible for external personnel </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">access this </del>information and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">see how the project proceeds.&nbsp; See also the short article [[Project wiki|project wiki]]</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The intention is to replace long monolithic documents by small -linked- </ins>information <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">units</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This </ins>makes it <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">easier </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">navigate through large documents and find wanted </ins>information and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">further information</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It is for example not necessary to explain in detail what options and strategies there are in [https://energypedia.info/wiki/Cooking_with_Sun solar cooking] in different documents if it has been defined once and is now linked to the text. This prevents [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy redundancy] and allows users to concentrate on the topic ore to gain more surrounding information - as he or she likes.<br/>If a page with specific content is linked to several pages, and the specific content is one that changes over time, the information must only be updated in one single document instead of all documents where it occurs. So if there were new technologies in solar cooking they could just be added to the document that already exists and the information would be available from all the documents that it is linked to.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>= When to use a wiki?<br/> <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>=</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">More reasons for using wikis arise from the needs of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management knowledge-] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management project-] management.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>People often have only one model of wiki practices from the most globally visible wiki, [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] an encyclopedia built and used by many people. You can edit the Wikipedia. Anyone can. But an encyclopedia is just one use for a wiki.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>People often have only one model of wiki practices from the most globally visible wiki, [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] an encyclopedia built and used by many people. You can edit the Wikipedia. Anyone can. But an encyclopedia is just one use for a wiki.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*For collaborative writing- When you have to write a report with others, especially people who don’t work in the same location as you? Wikis allow a team to write together and see their shared work all along the way.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><u>Furthermore, you can use a wiki ...</u></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A '''wiki''' is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. At its core, a wiki is a simple online database in which each page is easily edited by any user with a Web browser; no special software or third party webmaster is needed to post content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. Each article contains a discussion page where editors and readers can talk about the document. By looking at the history of a page, users can track changes and compare the versions of a document. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/collaborative_writing collaborative writing] . A wiki's versioning capability can show the evolution of thought processes as contributors interact with content, helping us to focus more on content and less on who is contributing what. This can be a big culture change. It takes a while to get used to the idea that someone else can change what you wrote. But that also means they can IMPROVE it! So it is a bit like thinking together. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It is not an archive and&nbsp;not a storage place such as the DMS! </del>Obsolete material needs to be removed.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A '''wiki''' is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. At its core, a wiki is a simple online database in which each page is easily edited by any user with a Web browser; no special software or third party webmaster is needed to post content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. Each article contains a discussion page where editors and readers can talk about the document. By looking at the history of a page, users can track changes and compare the versions of a document. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/collaborative_writing collaborative writing] . A wiki's versioning capability can show the evolution of thought processes as contributors interact with content, helping us to focus more on content and less on who is contributing what. This can be a big culture change. It takes a while to get used to the idea that someone else can change what you wrote. But that also means they can IMPROVE it! So it is a bit like thinking together. Obsolete material needs to be removed.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Wikis are often used&nbsp;to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The pages within a wiki can and should be linked to other relevant pages within and/or outside the wiki. The collaborative encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". He was looking for the simplest possible tool to help a group of people share information they were using in a collaborative project. By the way, "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". Moreover, '''"wiki" '''can also be expanded to'''"<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">W</span>hat <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">K</span>now<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span>s..."''' but this is a backronym.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Wikis are often used&nbsp;to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The pages within a wiki can and should be linked to other relevant pages within and/or outside the wiki. The collaborative encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". He was looking for the simplest possible tool to help a group of people share information they were using in a collaborative project. By the way, "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". Moreover, '''"wiki" '''can also be expanded to'''"<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">W</span>hat <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">K</span>now<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span>s..."''' but this is a backronym.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Why should I use this?<br/> ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Why should I use this?<br/> ==</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>People often have only one model of wiki practices from the most globally visible wiki, [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] an encyclopedia built and used by many people. You can edit the Wikipedia. Anyone can. But an encyclopedia is just one use for a wiki.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br/></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>People often have only one model of wiki practices from the most globally visible wiki, [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] an encyclopedia built and used by many people. You can edit the Wikipedia. Anyone can. But an encyclopedia is just one use for a wiki.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*For collaborative writing- When you have to write a report with others, especially people who don’t work in the same location as you? Wikis allow a team to write together and see their shared work all along the way.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*For collaborative writing- When you have to write a report with others, especially people who don’t work in the same location as you? Wikis allow a team to write together and see their shared work all along the way.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*As a collaboration tool - Instantly collaborate without emailing documents, keeping the group in sync.<br/>&nbsp; - Action plan or monthly updates<br/>&nbsp; - Shared “to do” list<br/>&nbsp; - Checklists<br/>&nbsp; - Capture notes, snippets and resources for a project or report</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*As a collaboration tool - Instantly collaborate without emailing documents, keeping the group in sync.<br/>&nbsp; - Action plan or monthly updates<br/>&nbsp; - Shared “to do” list<br/>&nbsp; - Checklists<br/>&nbsp; - Capture notes, snippets and resources for a project or report</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*As a meeting tool - collaboratively prepare agendas, take notes and share additional resources. Can also help those not at a F2F meeting have access to some meeting materials.<br/>&nbsp; - Shared agenda creation<br/>&nbsp; - Shared note taking<br/>&nbsp;&nbsp; - Distribution of minutes/action items</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*As a meeting tool - collaboratively prepare agendas, take notes and share additional resources. Can also help those not at a F2F meeting have access to some meeting materials.<br/>&nbsp; - Shared agenda creation<br/>&nbsp; - Shared note taking<br/>&nbsp;&nbsp; - Distribution of minutes/action items</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A '''wiki''' is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. At its core, a wiki is a simple online database in which each page is easily edited by any user with a Web browser; no special software or third party webmaster is needed to post content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. Each article contains a discussion page where editors and readers can talk about the document. By looking at the history of a page, users can track changes and compare the versions of a document. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/collaborative_writing collaborative writing] . A wiki's versioning capability can show the evolution of thought processes as contributors interact with content, helping us to focus more on content and less on who is contributing what. This can be a big culture change. It takes a while to get used to the idea that someone else can change what you wrote. But that also means they can IMPROVE it! So it is a bit like thinking together. It is not an archive and&nbsp;not a storage place such as the DMS! Obsolete material needs to be removed.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A '''wiki''' is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. At its core, a wiki is a simple online database in which each page is easily edited by any user with a Web browser; no special software or third party webmaster is needed to post content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. Each article contains a discussion page where editors and readers can talk about the document. By looking at the history of a page, users can track changes and compare the versions of a document. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/collaborative_writing collaborative writing] . A wiki's versioning capability can show the evolution of thought processes as contributors interact with content, helping us to focus more on content and less on who is contributing what. This can be a big culture change. It takes a while to get used to the idea that someone else can change what you wrote. But that also means they can IMPROVE it! So it is a bit like thinking together. It is not an archive and&nbsp;not a storage place such as the DMS! Obsolete material needs to be removed.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Wikis are often used&nbsp;to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The pages within a wiki can and should be linked to other relevant pages within and/or outside the wiki. The collaborative encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". He was looking for the simplest possible tool to help a group of people share information they were using in a collaborative project. By the way, "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". Moreover, '''"wiki" '''can also be expanded to'''"<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">W</span>hat <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">K</span>now<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)"> I</span>s..."''' but this is a backronym.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Wikis are often used&nbsp;to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The pages within a wiki can and should be linked to other relevant pages within and/or outside the wiki. The collaborative encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". He was looking for the simplest possible tool to help a group of people share information they were using in a collaborative project. By the way, "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". Moreover, '''"wiki" '''can also be expanded to'''"<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">W</span>hat <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">K</span>now<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span>s..."''' but this is a backronym.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The intention is to replace long monolithic documents by small '''-linked-''' information units . This makes it easier to navigate through large documents and find wanted information and further information.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The intention is to replace long monolithic documents by small '''-linked-''' information units . This makes it easier to navigate through large documents and find wanted information and further information.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Editing an article within a wiki is easy. This allows the wiki-users to keep information up to date, to correct articles published by other users or to add more relevant information to it by adding text or linking an other relevant article, or explanation.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Editing an article within a wiki is easy. This allows the wiki-users to keep information up to date, to correct articles published by other users or to add more relevant information to it by adding text or linking an other relevant article, or explanation.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''E.g.''': It is not necessary to explain in detail what options and strategies there are in [[4.1 Cooking with Sun|solar cooking]]&nbsp;in different documents if it has been defined once and is now linked to the text. This prevents [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy redundancy] and allows users to concentrate on the topic ore to gain more surrounding information - as he or she likes.<br>If a page with specific content is linked to several pages, and the specific content is one that changes over time, the information must only be updated in one single document instead of all documents where it occurs. So if there were new technologies in solar cooking they could just be added to the document that already exists and the information would be available from all the documents that it is linked to.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''E.g.''': It is not necessary to explain in detail what options and strategies there are in [[4.1 Cooking with Sun|solar cooking]]&nbsp;in different documents if it has been defined once and is now linked to the text. This prevents [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy redundancy] and allows users to concentrate on the topic ore to gain more surrounding information - as he or she likes.<br<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/</ins>>If a page with specific content is linked to several pages, and the specific content is one that changes over time, the information must only be updated in one single document instead of all documents where it occurs. So if there were new technologies in solar cooking they could just be added to the document that already exists and the information would be available from all the documents that it is linked to.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>More reasons for using wikis arise from the needs of&nbsp;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management knowledge-] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management project-] management.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>More reasons for using wikis arise from the needs of&nbsp;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management knowledge-] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management project-] management.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Besides storing and providing information a wiki can be used as a tool for knowledge generation and allocation as well as a project planning tool. It also makes it possible for external personnel to access this information and see how the project proceeds.&nbsp; See also the short article [[Project wiki|project wiki]].  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Besides storing and providing information a wiki can be used as a tool for knowledge generation and allocation as well as a project planning tool. It also makes it possible for external personnel to access this information and see how the project proceeds.&nbsp; See also the short article [[Project wiki|project wiki]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== When to use a wiki  ==</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">People often have only one model of wiki practices from the most globally visible wiki, [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] an encyclopedia built and used by many people. You can edit the Wikipedia. Anyone can. But an encyclopedia is just one </del>use <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">for </del>a wiki<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. <br><br></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">== When to </ins>use a wiki <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*For collaborative writing- When you </del>have <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">to write a report with others, especially people who don’t work in </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">same location as you? Wikis allow a team to write together and see their shared work all along the way. </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">People often </ins>have <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">only one model of wiki practices from </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">most globally visible wiki</ins>, [http://<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">www</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wikipedia</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</ins>/ <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wikipedia</ins>] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">an encyclopedia built </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">used by many people</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">You can edit the Wikipedia</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Anyone can</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But an encyclopedia is just one use for a </ins>wiki.<br<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/</ins>></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*As a collaboration tool - Instantly collaborate without emailing documents</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">keeping the group in sync.<br>&nbsp; - Action plan or monthly updates<br>&nbsp; - Shared “to do” list<br>&nbsp; - Checklists<br>&nbsp; - Capture notes, snippets and resources for a project or report </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*As a meeting tool - collaboratively prepare agendas, take notes and share additional resources. Can also help those not at a F2F meeting have access to some meeting materials.<br>&nbsp; - Shared agenda creation<br>&nbsp; - Shared note taking<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; - Distribution of minutes/action items </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*Translate materials (see </del>[http://<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tech</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">groups</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">yahoo.com</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">group/afrophonewikis/%29 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/afrophonewikis/)</del>]  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*Learning </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">training (see [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">un-instraw</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org/wiki/training/index</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">php/Main_Page%29 http://www.un-instraw.org/</del>wiki<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/training/index</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">php/Main_Page)] </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*For content creation and management<br>&nbsp; - Wiki as index for a file library<br>&nbsp; - Create a process manual</del><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&nbsp; - Create FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">== </del>Wiki <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">weaknesses  ==</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*For collaborative writing- When you have to write a report with others, especially people who don’t work in the same location as you? Wikis allow a team to write together and see their shared work all along the way.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*As a meeting tool - collaboratively prepare agendas, take notes and share additional resources. Can also help those not at a F2F meeting have access to some meeting materials.<br/>&nbsp; - Shared agenda creation<br/>&nbsp; - Shared note taking<br/>&nbsp;&nbsp; - Distribution of minutes/action items</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*Translate materials (see [http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/afrophonewikis/%29 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/afrophonewikis/)]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*Learning and training (see [http://www.un-instraw.org/wiki/training/index.php/Main_Page%29 http://www.un-instraw.org/wiki/training/index.php/Main_Page)]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*For content creation and management<br/>&nbsp; - </ins>Wiki <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">as index for a file library<br/>&nbsp; - Create a process manual<br/>&nbsp; - Create FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Must be online to edit or read a page. You can copy the page to read offline. So it is not a good tool for people who have to write together but aren’t often online. Then it is better to send documents which can be worked on offline.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">== Wiki weaknesses ==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Not a replacement for libraries. If you use a wiki instead of a document library, you have to copy all the document text into a page and manually link it to the appropriate pages. It is harder for people to download information and read offline. So if you have a lot of documents and not a lot of people online, consider a document library. However, you can use a wiki to make a nice front page for your library.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Can get messy if you don’t have a practice of “wiki gardening.” If you make a lot of pages, for example, and don’t link them to other pages, they become hard to find or “orphaned.” If people don’t delete out of date text, a page becomes useless.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Must be online to edit or read a page. You can copy the page to read offline. So it is not a good tool for people who have to write together but aren’t often online. Then it is better to send documents which can be worked on offline.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Does not emphasize who wrote what and when, so if that is important, a wiki may not be a good choice. In a wiki, the focus is on the content, rather than who wrote it or when they wrote it.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Not a replacement for libraries. If you use a wiki instead of a document library, you have to copy all the document text into a page and manually link it to the appropriate pages. It is harder for people to download information and read offline. So if you have a lot of documents and not a lot of people online, consider a document library. However, you can use a wiki to make a nice front page for your library.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Can get messy if you don’t have a practice of “wiki gardening.” If you make a lot of pages, for example, and don’t link them to other pages, they become hard to find or “orphaned.” If people don’t delete out of date text, a page becomes useless.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Does not emphasize who wrote what and when, so if that is important, a wiki may not be a good choice. In a wiki, the focus is on the content, rather than who wrote it or when they wrote it.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A '''wiki''' is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. At its core, a wiki is a simple online database in which each page is easily edited by any user with a Web browser; no special software or third party webmaster is needed to post content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. Each article contains a discussion page where editors and readers can talk about the document. By looking at the history of a page, users can track changes and compare the versions of a document. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/collaborative_writing collaborative writing] . A wiki's versioning capability can show the evolution of thought processes as contributors interact with content, helping us to focus more on content and less on who is contributing what. This can be a big culture change. It takes a while to get used to the idea that someone else can change what you wrote. But that also means they can IMPROVE it! So it is a bit like thinking together. It is not an archive and&nbsp;not a storage place such as the DMS! Obsolete material needs to be removed.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A '''wiki''' is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. At its core, a wiki is a simple online database in which each page is easily edited by any user with a Web browser; no special software or third party webmaster is needed to post content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. Each article contains a discussion page where editors and readers can talk about the document. By looking at the history of a page, users can track changes and compare the versions of a document. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/collaborative_writing collaborative writing] . A wiki's versioning capability can show the evolution of thought processes as contributors interact with content, helping us to focus more on content and less on who is contributing what. This can be a big culture change. It takes a while to get used to the idea that someone else can change what you wrote. But that also means they can IMPROVE it! So it is a bit like thinking together. It is not an archive and&nbsp;not a storage place such as the DMS! Obsolete material needs to be removed.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Wikis are often used <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">AA</del>&nbsp;to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The pages within a wiki can and should be linked to other relevant pages within and/or outside the wiki. The collaborative encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". He was looking for the simplest possible tool to help a group of people share information they were using in a collaborative project. By the way, "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". Moreover, '''"wiki" '''can also be expanded to'''"<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">W</span>hat <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">K</span>now<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)"> I</span>s..."''' but this is a backronym.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Wikis are often used&nbsp;to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The pages within a wiki can and should be linked to other relevant pages within and/or outside the wiki. The collaborative encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". He was looking for the simplest possible tool to help a group of people share information they were using in a collaborative project. By the way, "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". Moreover, '''"wiki" '''can also be expanded to'''"<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">W</span>hat <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">K</span>now<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)"> I</span>s..."''' but this is a backronym.  </div></td></tr>
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</table>Roberthttps://help.energypedia.info/index.php?title=What%27s_a_Wiki&diff=1643&oldid=prevRobert at 11:22, 15 September 20112011-09-15T11:22:37Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A '''wiki''' is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. At its core, a wiki is a simple online database in which each page is easily edited by any user with a Web browser; no special software or third party webmaster is needed to post content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. Each article contains a discussion page where editors and readers can talk about the document. By looking at the history of a page, users can track changes and compare the versions of a document. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/collaborative_writing collaborative writing] . A wiki's versioning capability can show the evolution of thought processes as contributors interact with content, helping us to focus more on content and less on who is contributing what. This can be a big culture change. It takes a while to get used to the idea that someone else can change what you wrote. But that also means they can IMPROVE it! So it is a bit like thinking together. It is not an archive and&nbsp;not a storage place such as the DMS! Obsolete material needs to be removed.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A '''wiki''' is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. At its core, a wiki is a simple online database in which each page is easily edited by any user with a Web browser; no special software or third party webmaster is needed to post content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. Each article contains a discussion page where editors and readers can talk about the document. By looking at the history of a page, users can track changes and compare the versions of a document. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/collaborative_writing collaborative writing] . A wiki's versioning capability can show the evolution of thought processes as contributors interact with content, helping us to focus more on content and less on who is contributing what. This can be a big culture change. It takes a while to get used to the idea that someone else can change what you wrote. But that also means they can IMPROVE it! So it is a bit like thinking together. It is not an archive and&nbsp;not a storage place such as the DMS! Obsolete material needs to be removed.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The pages within a wiki can and should be linked to other relevant pages within and/or outside the wiki. The collaborative encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". He was looking for the simplest possible tool to help a group of people share information they were using in a collaborative project. By the way, "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". Moreover, '''"wiki" '''can also be expanded to'''"<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">W</span>hat <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">K</span>now<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)"> I</span>s..."''' but this is a backronym.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Wikis are often used <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">AA&nbsp;</ins>to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The pages within a wiki can and should be linked to other relevant pages within and/or outside the wiki. The collaborative encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". He was looking for the simplest possible tool to help a group of people share information they were using in a collaborative project. By the way, "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". Moreover, '''"wiki" '''can also be expanded to'''"<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">W</span>hat <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">K</span>now<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)"> I</span>s..."''' but this is a backronym.  </div></td></tr>
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</table>Roberthttps://help.energypedia.info/index.php?title=What%27s_a_Wiki&diff=1559&oldid=prevBenjamin Rebenich at 13:11, 12 August 20112011-08-12T13:11:10Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Must be online to edit or read a page. You can copy the page to read offline. So it is not a good tool for people who have to write together but aren’t often online. Then it is better to send documents which can be worked on offline.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*Must be online to edit or read a page. You can copy the page to read offline. So it is not a good tool for people who have to write together but aren’t often online. Then it is better to send documents which can be worked on offline.  </div></td></tr>
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</table>Benjamin Rebenichhttps://help.energypedia.info/index.php?title=What%27s_a_Wiki&diff=1558&oldid=prevBenjamin Rebenich at 13:10, 12 August 20112011-08-12T13:10:46Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>= Why should I use this?<br> =</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The pages within a wiki can and should be linked to other relevant pages within and/or outside the wiki. The collaborative encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". He was looking for the simplest possible tool to help a group of people share information they were using in a collaborative project. By the way, "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". Moreover, '''"wiki" '''can also be expanded to'''"<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">W</span>hat <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">I</span> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">K</span>now<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)"> I</span>s..."''' but this is a backronym. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The intention is to replace long monolithic documents by small '''-linked-''' information units . This makes it easier to navigate through large documents and find wanted information and further information.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The intention is to replace long monolithic documents by small '''-linked-''' information units . This makes it easier to navigate through large documents and find wanted information and further information.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Besides storing and providing information a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wiki </del>can be used as a tool for knowledge generation and allocation as well as a project planning tool. It also makes it possible for external personnel to access this information and see how the project proceeds.&nbsp; See also the short article [[Project wiki|project <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wiki</del>]].<br></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Besides storing and providing information a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wiki </ins>can be used as a tool for knowledge generation and allocation as well as a project planning tool. It also makes it possible for external personnel to access this information and see how the project proceeds.&nbsp; See also the short article [[Project wiki|project <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wiki</ins>]].  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">People often have only one model of wiki practices from the most globally visible wiki, [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] an encyclopedia built and used by many people. You can edit the Wikipedia. Anyone can. But an encyclopedia is just one use for a wiki. <br><br></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*For collaborative writing- When you have to write a report with others, especially people who don’t work in the same location as you? Wikis allow a team to write together and see their shared work all along the way. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*As a collaboration tool - Instantly collaborate without emailing documents, keeping the group in sync.<br>&nbsp; - Action plan or monthly updates<br>&nbsp; - Shared “to do” list<br>&nbsp; - Checklists<br>&nbsp; - Capture notes, snippets and resources for a project or report </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*As a meeting tool - collaboratively prepare agendas, take notes and share additional resources. Can also help those not at a F2F meeting have access to some meeting materials.<br>&nbsp; - Shared agenda creation<br>&nbsp; - Shared note taking<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; - Distribution of minutes/action items </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*Translate materials (see [http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/afrophonewikis/%29 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/afrophonewikis/)] </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*Learning and training (see [http://www.un-instraw.org/wiki/training/index.php/Main_Page%29 http://www.un-instraw.org/wiki/training/index.php/Main_Page)] </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*For content creation and management<br>&nbsp; - Wiki as index for a file library<br>&nbsp; - Create a process manual<br>&nbsp; - Create FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">= Wiki weaknesses  =</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*Must be online to edit or read a page. You can copy the page to read offline. So it is not a good tool for people who have to write together but aren’t often online. Then it is better to send documents which can be worked on offline. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*Not a replacement for libraries. If you use a wiki instead of a document library, you have to copy all the document text into a page and manually link it to the appropriate pages. It is harder for people to download information and read offline. So if you have a lot of documents and not a lot of people online, consider a document library. However, you can use a wiki to make a nice front page for your library. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*Can get messy if you don’t have a practice of “wiki gardening.” If you make a lot of pages, for example, and don’t link them to other pages, they become hard to find or “orphaned.” If people don’t delete out of date text, a page becomes useless. </ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Benjamin Rebenich