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Leigh Blackall: Students using wikis to collaborate

[Leigh Blackall] Not only are Wikis great for collaboration but they are also much more friendly to the environment and save us all from duplicating our work, only refining as we go. Great links.

Wikis, Wikis Everywhere but”¦ « Babygrem's Weblog

[Babygrem's Weblog] Wikis are wonderful! Then I took a look at the public PBWikis page and hmmmm, there are lots of libraries all with their own wikis, all providing information on Readers Advisory or Children’s services. And hmmm, I think there might be some duplication here.

Posted at 01:02 PM

June 29, 2009

Leigh Blackall: Students using wikis to collaborate

[Leigh Blackall] Not only are Wikis great for collaboration but they are also much more friendly to the environment and save us all from duplicating our work, only refining as we go. Great links.

Posted at 01:04 PM

Wikis, Wikis Everywhere but”¦ « Babygrem's Weblog

Posted at 01:02 PM

June 26, 2009

Change page counter to count only unique visits? Not ever single ...

[MediaWiki Forums] One thing that I would like to change is the counter so that it counts unique views and not merely hits. My counter is way off.

Posted at 01:36 PM

Search inside Category - MediaWiki Forums

[MediaWiki Forums] Thats great so everyone can look into every other project and can get an idea of what they are working on. But the problem is, that mostly you just want to work inside your project and if you search for some subject, you just want to search inside your project.

Posted at 01:34 PM

June 24, 2009

wikimediatech's status on Wednesday, 24-Jun-09 08:16:39 UTC ...

[wikimediatech] Wikimedia Tech Team wikimediatech. logmsgbot: midom synchronized php-1.5/db.php 'db24 back to life'.

Posted at 01:32 PM

Wikimedia Goes To Amsterdam | Erictric

[Erictric] Currently, Wikimedia Foundation currently runs its services off of 300 servers located in Florida. The 50 additional servers in Amsterdam are expected for uses such as caching and back-ups, and should also reduce response times for Wikimedia projects in Europe.

Posted at 01:32 PM

June 22, 2009

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Peer Governance and Wikipedia ...

[P2P Foundation] And that, I would argue, is a result of what Wikipedia fundamentally is: it’s not a controlled, even controllable, well-organised mechanism for developing a reliable knowledge base that asymptotically approaches perfection through careful editorial quality control processes (as encyclopaedias of the traditional type may once have claimed to be), but something much more unruly - a sometimes messy, self-organising, continuously unfinished collaborative process that relies not on hierarchical structures, but on the wisdom of crowds for its quality control processes.

Posted at 01:03 PM

Wikipedia to open up to video

[gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] The Wikimedia Foundation plans to launch an editable, video encyclopedia to complement its text-based online encyclopedia. Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has grown at an astounding rate, with about 65 million visits per month and thousands of volunteer contributors writing, adding to and editing thousands of articles every day.

Posted at 01:02 PM

June 19, 2009

MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide: Install, manage, and ...

[Lars Toomre] MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide: Install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation, Rahman, Mizanur , Birmingham, United Kingdom, p.284, (2007)

Posted at 01:34 PM

MediaWiki Skins Design: Designing attractive skins and templates ...

[Lars Toomre] The reader will already have a MediaWiki installation that they are targeting with their skin. It might be their own installation, or they might be a designer developing a custom look for a client.

Posted at 01:32 PM

June 17, 2009

MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond) | Toomre Capital Markets LLC

[Toomre Capital Markets LLC] This comprehensive book covers MediaWiki's rich (and sometimes subtle) features, helping you become a wiki expert in no time. You'll learn how to: Find your way around by effective searching and browsing Create and edit articles, categories, and user preferences Use advanced features for authors, such as templates, dynamic lists, logical parser functions, and RSS, to organize and maintain large numbers of articles Install and run your own wiki, and configure its look and behavior Develop custom wiki features, called extensions, with the PHP programming language and MySQL database

Posted at 01:33 PM

Can $890000 Make MediaWiki Useful?

[ReadWriteWeb] WYSIWYG editors are already available for MediaWiki through extensions, but the potential for corrupting the data that makes up Wikipedia's encyclopedic content is very real. Avoiding that scenario is primarily what lead the Initiative to discount a switch to WYSIWYG, at least within the scope of the project.

Posted at 01:32 PM

June 15, 2009

Wikis and Tracking Social Media « MSVU Social Media Course Blog

[MSVU Social Media Course Blog] The wiki provided a free space to add information, however I almost feel like the paper component would have resulted in more critical thinking (about the issues, are they portraying their platform properly? Etc, as opposed to ascetics).

Posted at 01:03 PM

Personal Wikis are Totally Awesome - openSUSE Forums

[openSUSE Forums] The nice thing about MoinMoin in Desktop mode is the ease of installation. You literally just unpack the archive, run a python script, then point your browser at it.

Posted at 01:01 PM

June 12, 2009

Google Wave Is Wikis 25 Years Later, Not Email | JAVA Developer's ...

[Latest News from JAVA Developer's Journal] always wanted to be, but Ozzie missed the Internet, so it found a good home with Microsoft. Wave is the Facebook for more closed groups, but also the MySpace for all the social stuff you want to share with your friends, but may be not with the world.

Posted at 01:33 PM

Academic Productivity » Convert .doc files to wikis in a WYSIWYG ...

[Academic Productivity] Unfortunately only for windows. Now, this advantage is gone: one could reasonably set up and update without having to ftp files around or use crappy editors that come built-in with most wikis.

Posted at 01:32 PM

June 10, 2009

Songkick Launches History of Concerts Wiki - ReadWriteStart

[ReadWriteWeb] Songkick has just given audiophiles a new obsession. Best known as a concert listing and recommendation system, the company launched a slew of new features including an editable .

Posted at 01:33 PM

[M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og » Blog Archive » Fedora wiki shortcuts ...

[[M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og] I’ve been using something similar to just the first one, and Google searches with “site:fedoraproject.org” for everything else.

Posted at 01:33 PM

June 08, 2009

The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 Competition Results

[Webupon] This amazing gif shows the transformation of the cicada from its pupa to the adult form. Although the whole process took over two hours there is a gap in the middle of about thirty minutes while the cicada took a rest from the strenuous activity of becoming an adult.

Posted at 01:02 PM

www.wikimedia.org

[Xomba - Show And Tell Has Never Been So Rewarding] Wikimedia, owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, is a website which contains sites such as Wikipedia (the most used online encyclopedia), Wikinews, Wikiquote, among other Wiki sites. Eventually, each of the sites showed there has its own characteristics and contents provided by users as you.

Posted at 01:02 PM

June 05, 2009

Pratham Books: Wikimedia's Picture of the Year

[Pratham Books] The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 competition is and the winner has been chose. The picture taken by Mikel Ortega and edited by Richard Bartz won the competition.

Posted at 01:34 PM

The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 | MetaFilter

[MetaFilter] while the popularity contest has mixed results, its very exciting to see a proliferation of creative commons material available. Like Wikipedia, its importance will grow as the library of materials grows more expansive (unlike Wikipedia, the quality of material will not be governed by consensus, although the quantity may grow overwhelming).

Posted at 01:34 PM

June 03, 2009

Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 | Doobybrain.com

[Doobybrain.com] Photo by Jack Delano (Library of Congress archives) The stunning photo above is one of the many notable mentions in the 2008 Wikimedia Commons Picture of.

Posted at 01:34 PM

Wikimedia's picture of the year - Boing Boing

[Boing Boing] Voting has closed on the Wikimedia Commons photo of the year competition; the winner and runners-up are stunning.

Posted at 01:33 PM

Openpedia.org > June 29, 2009

Leigh Blackall: Students using wikis to collaborate

Wikis, Wikis Everywhere but”¦ « Babygrem's Weblog

June 29, 2009

Leigh Blackall: Students using wikis to collaborate

Wikis, Wikis Everywhere but”¦ « Babygrem's Weblog

June 26, 2009

Change page counter to count only unique visits? Not ever single ...

Search inside Category - MediaWiki Forums

June 24, 2009

wikimediatech's status on Wednesday, 24-Jun-09 08:16:39 UTC ...

Wikimedia Goes To Amsterdam | Erictric

June 22, 2009

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Peer Governance and Wikipedia ...

Wikipedia to open up to video

June 19, 2009

MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide: Install, manage, and ...

MediaWiki Skins Design: Designing attractive skins and templates ...

June 17, 2009

MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond) | Toomre Capital Markets LLC

Can $890000 Make MediaWiki Useful?

June 15, 2009

Wikis and Tracking Social Media « MSVU Social Media Course Blog

Personal Wikis are Totally Awesome - openSUSE Forums

June 12, 2009

Google Wave Is Wikis 25 Years Later, Not Email | JAVA Developer's ...

Academic Productivity » Convert .doc files to wikis in a WYSIWYG ...

June 10, 2009

Songkick Launches History of Concerts Wiki - ReadWriteStart

[M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og » Blog Archive » Fedora wiki shortcuts ...

June 08, 2009

The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 Competition Results

www.wikimedia.org

June 05, 2009

Pratham Books: Wikimedia's Picture of the Year

The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 | MetaFilter

June 03, 2009

Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 | Doobybrain.com

Wikimedia's picture of the year - Boing Boing

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