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 [Wikispaces : planeta - all changes] wiki: The philosophy behind Wiki is that text is fluid and can be edited, illustrated in the popular video The Machine is Us/ing Us The process is collaborative, following the logic that 'two heads are better than one' or the more the merrier .

 [Exemplary Resources for Middle School Math and Science] Teacher Tools that Integrate Technology: Wikis: Students may figure out that they can later change their usernames, but remind them that as you track changes to the wiki, you only know the usernames you set up. This can be played up as necessary to prevent changes, since you can’t give BabyGurl1229 a grade because you don’t know which student she is!

 [SLA] Week 7 Wikis - Collaborative Portals (updated): are a class of Web-based applications that share similar functionality including the following:. * Collaborative model for aggregating and distilling information/knowledge .

 [The Spittoon] Author! Author!: When Jon Huss and his colleagues proposed a gene wiki on Wikipedia last month, they were following previous attempts to take advantage of collaborative technology and let researchers share information gleaned from their work.

 [Open Access News] A scientific wiki that keeps track of author contributions: In view of the extraordinary success of Wikipedia there remains no doubt about the potential of collaborative publishing, yet its adoption in science has been limited. Here I discuss a dynamic collaborative knowledge base for the life sciences that provides authors with due credit and that can evolve via continual revision and traditional peer review into a rigorous scientific tool.

 [Shortybangbang's Rhyme & Reason] Wiki-iddy, wiki-iddy, wiki-iddy”¦not so whack.: shows and celebrities.  That’s collaborative, right?  Well, I explored wikis for libraries and I can see some good uses for them.  As a collaboration between library staff to update everyone on the same committee or to let all staff know about what’s happening on Staff Day.  It would also be useful as a collaboration between library staff and patrons: resources can be listed for genealogy, history, and other subjects.  When I first began reading about wikis, I couldn’t see a reason why I would want to use one.  But then I saw the Simpsons Wiki.  Can I just say, “wow!”  That particular wiki speaks to the television geek in me; a comprehensive source of all things Simpson?  The creator of the Simpsons Wiki is a genius.  I should create a Seinfeld Wiki, or a Battlestar Galactica Wiki…oooh, a Sex and the City Wiki!  The possibilities are endless!

 [Wired Science] A Wiki for the Planet: Clay Shirky on Open Source Environmentalism: Along the way, he touched on Facebook's limitations, why conserving oil might not actually help the world, and why Linux programmers and Critical Mass cyclists might be the new models for political action.

 [makeuseof.com] Create Your Own Wiki Site Easily With WetPaint: Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis.

 [Doowyam's Weblog] 27th August 2008: The WebQuest asks the question, What is the main difference between a Weblog and a Wiki?  I would say that a weblog could be used primarily for recording information in journal style from day to day.  A wiki on the other hand facilitates collaborative working, for example project management and report writing, because it can be easily edited by everyone involved.  

 [Wired: Wired Science] A Wiki for the Planet: Clay Shirky on Open Source Environmentalism: Anything from mailing lists to Wikis. What we don't have is tools for acting once a decision has been taken.

 [Wikispaces : k12opensource : home] Welcome to K12OpenSource!: A good example of a wiki that many people are familiar with is Wikipedia .Wikis can allow anyone to edit any page that they want to.

 [LifeDev] Open Sourcing Your Creativity: Blog post - If you’ve got a blog that you post in regularly, release the idea to the masses via a blog post. Wikis - Wikis are another smart way to share information in a collaborative environment.

 [Infothought] Wikipedia the nonprofit as PR for Wikia the commercial ad-farm: [JW] People are taking some of the core ideas of Wikipedia and starting to move "beyond the encyclopedia". For example, at the Wikia site Armchair GM, sports fan use a variation of the original wiki software that runs Wikipedia to manage discussions about sports.

[Planeta REA] Planeta: Abstract: WikiGenes is the first wiki system to combine the collaborative and largely altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship. In view of the extraordinary success of Wikipedia there remains no doubt about the .

[Industry Standard Views & Analysis] Four free wikis worth trying out: Ups: PB Wikis recently released a new version of their wiki that provides a good starting off point for someone with no wiki experience. It simply has two tabs at the top: "view," which would be like a read-only form, and "edit," to make changes/edits/deletions.

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