Monday, December 21, 2009

more Wiki notes

Useful questions in evaluating the Wiki for you:
How many users are you anticipating? 5-6
What OperatingSystem(s) would you like it to run on?
Will it be a project wiki or for fun? both, hopefully
What features do you want? want to avoid? need ability to have video
Is there already a wiki serving your topic? (see PublicWikiSites) NO
. Create simple Web pages that family, friends can edit together
· Post homeworks, assignments, project works and study materials from anywhere / anytime
· Maintain online schedules and calendar for students to track project / assignment deadlines
· Host pictures, slide shows, photo galleries, video clips of school or classroom events
· Encourage parents' participation in activities of classroom and keep updated on events of classroom
· Showcase the positive happenings in a classroom or school in your website


An Access Control List features gives you fine-grained permissioning control. You can set up lists of users (perhaps in groups or roles) who are allowed to access to certain parts of your wiki, for operations such as viewing, editing, creating new pages, etc.

Note on handling wiki vandals
There are some kinds of vandals who are new to the wiki concept, and are responding by seeing if they can get away with adding obscenities. This is a natural reaction to wiki technology (by people who are perhaps a little childish) In these cases it's a good idea to just revert their edits manually, and try to rehabilitate them. The hope is that they will quickly realise the technology is robust to that kind of thing, and that it's more fun to make good contributions.

Evaluating Wikis for Project

Netcipia – support: participation.netcipia.net; ; preview; Email notification; Rev diffs; Conflict Resolution; Internal Comments; Section Editing; Blog

Springnote – no ads; Support/tutor: http://www.springnote.com/en/tour/create; Change summary; preview; Email notification; Rev diffs; Section Editing; NO Themes & Skins; Forum; Blog ; 2G; Wiki download

Wetpaint – host blocking; Support: http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/; Change summary; Preview; Email notification; comment-threaded; Rev diffs; Conflict Resolution; Page Redirects; Page Templates; Forum ; Backup to html

Wikispaces – Support: http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction; Change summary ; Preview; Email notification; Comment –discustion; Rev diffs; Conflict Resolution; Page Redirects; Section Editing; Page Templates; Forum

Zoho Wiki – No ads, Can blacklist; Mailing list: wiki.zoho.com; Support: forums.zohowiki.com; Email notification; Rev diffs; Page Templates ; 50Mb; backup your entire site as a zip file and save in your local drive for your personal use.

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