Skills: noneConcepts: wiki examples and definition, operations, the wiki motto, wiki motivation and history, client-server applications

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What is a wiki?

Where does this topic fit?

• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills

Watch Wikis in Plain English (3m 40s)http://commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

Wikipedia.org

A wiki is a web site with a twist

Any authorized user can view and

edit it

How is a wiki different from a regular Web site?

2+2=4

ugly simple collaborative

Page viewing and editing area

A typical wiki screen layout

Navigationpane

Page viewing and editing area

Select operation to perform

Simplified screen layout

Edit

Save

The page you are editing

Editing a page

The wiki motto

Improve the wiki with every edit.

Client and server

Client Server

Ward Cunningham and the first wiki

Summary

Self-study questions

1. We mentioned three differences between a wiki and a regular Web site – do you recall them?

2. We covered five operations common to all wikis – do you recall them?

3. What is the wiki motto?4. Why did Ward Cunningham invent the wiki?5. Can you find examples of useful wikis on the Web?6. What could you use a wiki for at school, work or home?7. Can you think of other examples of client-server programs?8. Make a wire frame diagram for the user interface of a program you

commonly use.

Resources

Wikis in Plain English (3m 40s)http://commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

How college students use Wikipedia:http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2830/2476

Evaluation of Wikipedia:http://delicious.com/lpress/wikieval

Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham

The first Wiki, invented to discuss programming technique:http://c2.com/cgi/wiki