Tutorial/Que es un wiki

[edit] ¿Qué es un wiki?

Un wiki es un sitio web que es usualmente editable por caulquierpersona que disponga de un computador, un navegador de internet y conexión a internet. Los wikis usan una sintáxix rápida y fácil para permitir a los usuarios aplicar formato a los textos y crear vínculos entre páginas. Esta sintáxis de formateo simple significa que los autores ya no necesitarán entender las complejidades del HTML para crear contenido en la Web. The main strength of a wiki is the ability to work collaboratively on the same document with a Internet browser being the only software requirement on the users machine. Consequently, wikis are used for a variety of purposes. If you make a mistake, it's easy to revert back to an earlier version of the document.

The name "Wiki" was chosen by Ward Cunningham -- the creator of the first Wiki. It is a shortened form of "wiki-wiki", the Hawaiian word for quick.

[edit] Examples of Wikis

Wikis are fun as attested by this WikiEducator user from BarbadosThe largest and most talked about Wiki on the Internet is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is, for the most part, editable by anyone in the world with a computer and an internet connection and, at the time of this writing, contained over 1,500,000 pages. One and a half million pages in English! There are also more than 250,000 articles in German, French, Polish, and Japanese; and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portugese, Russian, Swedish, and Chinese. That's nearing 2 million articles or pages!

While Wikipedia's mission is to create an encyclopedic resource of knowledge, wikis can be used for a variety of purposes and are quickly becoming the defacto technology for collaborative group work online. They can be great social tools for classrooms, teams, community groups, or can even be configured to provide easily updatable web sites for organisations.

The following wikis display a range of different applications of wiki technology:

Wikitravel - a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide travel guide. WikiWikiWeb - the first ever wiki, it has been around since 1995. eXe Project - an example of how a wiki can be used to run a web site. Auckland.Wiki - a city wiki for the people of Auckland, New Zealand. There are literally thousands of wikis around the web on a diverse range of subjects and supporting many communities.

Activity The purpose of this activity is to introduce you to a few examples of wiki projects. In this activity you are encouraged to visit at least three of Wikipedia's sister projects listed below. For each of the Wikimedia project sites, you should:

Identify the main purpose of the site and how this differs from Wikipedia Skim through at least three representative articles on the site to get a feel for contributions from the community Determine which content license is used for the site. Choose three sites from the list of Wikimedia projects below:

Wikinews Wikimedia Commons Wikiversity Wikiquote Wiktionary Wikibooks

Many of Wikipedia's sister projects were initiated because the encyclopedia was being cluttered by entries that were not appropriate for an encyclopedia.

[edit] Interesting uses of Wiki technology British Council Case Study on using a wiki technology to promote collaboration at the office. Conference planning, see for example Wikimania 2006 Wiki as an online presentation tool demonstrated by Meredith Gorran Farkas, a distance education librarian. Open Streetmap is a wiki project to provide free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The Wealth of Networks WikiNotes - This Wiki is an invitation to collaborate on building a learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler's book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, available under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Sharealike license. Other uses include: Meetings (Posting of agendas, prior meeting discussions, minutes) Documentation for collaborative projects Web space for personal note taking If you find a really interesting use of a wiki - please feel free to add this to the list above.

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