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tcnsc — 2013-02-25 10:41:43

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- Search Engine Optimization Tips That Everyone Should Follow	+ How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki?
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	+ == Visualize your community ==
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	+ Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests.
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	+ This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate.
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- You could be the most ambitious person on the planet when it comes to creating a website with all the bells and whistles that people will love, but unless your visitors can find your site when they search specific terms, your efforts are just going to be wasted. Read these tips and make the most of your efforts.	+ == Preparation ==
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	+ Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests.
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- In [http://bonaw11.yolasite.com/ Huntsville SEO] every use of a keyword will benefit a website. Savvy webmasters remain aware of this and include keywords everywhere, even in file names and URLs. Not every keyword use is treated equally by search engines, but all of them have some positive effect. URLs and file names with keywords contribute their little bit to optimizing search engine results.	+ For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material.
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- Try to use a static URL. Dynamic URLs appear to search engines as duplicates, so your site may not place as high on their rating lists as you would prefer. Static URLs appear as multiple different sites, allowing the search engines to see that you actually have multiple pages, instead of just seeing a duplicate.	+ == Outreach ==
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- Be sure to look at your competitor's websites to find out what they may be doing that you aren't! This is a great way to optimize your search engine performance. First look at the site to get a general impression. Then use a keyword tool to determine what keywords are used most by your competitors and what kind of traffic they are generating. Lift some of their less competitive keywords for use on your own site!	+ Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes).
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- Think about all the synonyms for the keywords you're working with to ensure you catch all relevant search queries. If you're not sure which words you should use, try searching for your keywords with a tilde (~) in front of them. For example, ~athletic could provide you with a variety of words.	+ Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it).
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- When optimizing a website for search engine rankings, be sure to check out what your competitors are doing. Follow the links on the first page of results for the search terms you're interested in optimizing for. The source code and content of those pages can tell you a lot about how the search engines rank pages.	+ === Starting small and "opening up" ===
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- Google uses domain names as part of it's ranking algorithm, so ensure that yours includes some of the keywords you've identified as most important. If you're selling hardware and your domain name is JoesGoods.com, no one will find you. You need to have a clear, concise domain name which indicates who you are and what you do.	+ For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak.
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- Don't forget to fix typos! You can [http://www.jukeboxalive.com/blog.php?blog_id=14820563/ Alabama SEO Services] your entire website, but if someone sees unprofessional content they're not likely to return. Clean up your sites so that everything you write is informative, entertaining, and reads in a clear understandable manner.	+ For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start.
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- As mentioned at the start of this article, it's very important that you do not allow your efforts to go to waste. Learning the proper optimization tactics for the search engines out there is how your site or business goes from a simple start-up to being a legitimate and popular brand online. Use the tips you've just read to your advantage in SEO.	+ A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here].
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- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW8tKHib1OQ/ Video]	+ == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + I echo the idea that you must build something useful to yourself first--this way even if the wiki isn't growing as quickly as you'd like, you won't be too discouraged and it will continue to remain useful to you. Study what's out there and carve out a niche to fill an unmet need in information. For example, I'm an oncologist, and because there was a severe lack of what I felt were good references, I created a wiki that focuses on [http://hemonc.org/wiki/Main_Page chemotherapy regimens]. There is plenty of other information useful to doctors that is slowly being added, but the focus is always on the core information, the chemotherapy regimens, similar to how Google still focuses most on search/advertising. You need to make sure that you're able to stay dedicated and be a steady contributor to your wiki, so that even if nobody else is contributing during the growth phase, the wiki is not dead. You can't imagine how many unchanged and abandoned medical wikis I've seen; a ghost town is a big red flag to anybody who is thinking about adding content. Consider leveraging whatever social media connections or other websites you've created to help spread the word about your efforts. --Peter Yang + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

Building community

saroju11 — 2013-02-25 08:34:46

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- How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki?	+ Search Engine Optimization Tips That Everyone Should Follow
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- == Visualize your community ==
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- Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests.
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- This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate.
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- == Preparation ==	+ You could be the most ambitious person on the planet when it comes to creating a website with all the bells and whistles that people will love, but unless your visitors can find your site when they search specific terms, your efforts are just going to be wasted. Read these tips and make the most of your efforts.
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- Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests.
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- For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material.	+ In [http://bonaw11.yolasite.com/ Huntsville SEO] every use of a keyword will benefit a website. Savvy webmasters remain aware of this and include keywords everywhere, even in file names and URLs. Not every keyword use is treated equally by search engines, but all of them have some positive effect. URLs and file names with keywords contribute their little bit to optimizing search engine results.
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- == Outreach ==	+ Try to use a static URL. Dynamic URLs appear to search engines as duplicates, so your site may not place as high on their rating lists as you would prefer. Static URLs appear as multiple different sites, allowing the search engines to see that you actually have multiple pages, instead of just seeing a duplicate.
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- Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes).	+ Be sure to look at your competitor's websites to find out what they may be doing that you aren't! This is a great way to optimize your search engine performance. First look at the site to get a general impression. Then use a keyword tool to determine what keywords are used most by your competitors and what kind of traffic they are generating. Lift some of their less competitive keywords for use on your own site!
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- Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it).	+ Think about all the synonyms for the keywords you're working with to ensure you catch all relevant search queries. If you're not sure which words you should use, try searching for your keywords with a tilde (~) in front of them. For example, ~athletic could provide you with a variety of words.
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- === Starting small and "opening up" ===	+ When optimizing a website for search engine rankings, be sure to check out what your competitors are doing. Follow the links on the first page of results for the search terms you're interested in optimizing for. The source code and content of those pages can tell you a lot about how the search engines rank pages.
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- For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak.	+ Google uses domain names as part of it's ranking algorithm, so ensure that yours includes some of the keywords you've identified as most important. If you're selling hardware and your domain name is JoesGoods.com, no one will find you. You need to have a clear, concise domain name which indicates who you are and what you do.
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- For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start.	+ Don't forget to fix typos! You can [http://www.jukeboxalive.com/blog.php?blog_id=14820563/ Alabama SEO Services] your entire website, but if someone sees unprofessional content they're not likely to return. Clean up your sites so that everything you write is informative, entertaining, and reads in a clear understandable manner.
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- A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here].	+ As mentioned at the start of this article, it's very important that you do not allow your efforts to go to waste. Learning the proper optimization tactics for the search engines out there is how your site or business goes from a simple start-up to being a legitimate and popular brand online. Use the tips you've just read to your advantage in SEO.
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- == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - I echo the idea that you must build something useful to yourself first--this way even if the wiki isn't growing as quickly as you'd like, you won't be too discouraged and it will continue to remain useful to you. Study what's out there and carve out a niche to fill an unmet need in information. For example, I'm an oncologist, and because there was a severe lack of what I felt were good references, I created a wiki that focuses on [http://hemonc.org/wiki/Main_Page chemotherapy regimens]. There is plenty of other information useful to doctors that is slowly being added, but the focus is always on the core information, the chemotherapy regimens, similar to how Google still focuses most on search/advertising. You need to make sure that you're able to stay dedicated and be a steady contributor to your wiki, so that even if nobody else is contributing during the growth phase, the wiki is not dead. You can't imagine how many unchanged and abandoned medical wikis I've seen; a ghost town is a big red flag to anybody who is thinking about adding content. Consider leveraging whatever social media connections or other websites you've created to help spread the word about your efforts. --Peter Yang - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW8tKHib1OQ/ Video]

Building community

tcnsc — 2013-02-24 21:43:14

Revert to version 106.

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- Welcome to Teaching with Technology, a wiki about''' innovation in education'''. Learning and lessons have grown to such an extent through new features such as Smart Boards, Blackboards, Distance Learning, and more. The largest search engine, Google, has helped millions of people in research, and finding out basic information for academic needs. New technologies have been formed for the Hard of Hearing and Exceptional Learners. Chat Rooms, Discussion Boards, and Dropbox have enhanced studying, sharing information in classrooms, and allowing assignments to be submitted electronically. A school database containing every teacher and their students allows for electronic attendance. School medical and academic records are now computerized. College admissions are primarily online now, as well as scholarships.	+ How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki?
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- This overwhelming amount of resources has enhanced education to a great extent throughout the United States. Although many aspects of education are still suffering in our nation, these technological advancements have certainly given room for learning to grow, fostering learning, and enabling further success for students.	+ == Visualize your community == + + Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. + + == Preparation == + + Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + I echo the idea that you must build something useful to yourself first--this way even if the wiki isn't growing as quickly as you'd like, you won't be too discouraged and it will continue to remain useful to you. Study what's out there and carve out a niche to fill an unmet need in information. For example, I'm an oncologist, and because there was a severe lack of what I felt were good references, I created a wiki that focuses on [http://hemonc.org/wiki/Main_Page chemotherapy regimens]. There is plenty of other information useful to doctors that is slowly being added, but the focus is always on the core information, the chemotherapy regimens, similar to how Google still focuses most on search/advertising. You need to make sure that you're able to stay dedicated and be a steady contributor to your wiki, so that even if nobody else is contributing during the growth phase, the wiki is not dead. You can't imagine how many unchanged and abandoned medical wikis I've seen; a ghost town is a big red flag to anybody who is thinking about adding content. Consider leveraging whatever social media connections or other websites you've created to help spread the word about your efforts. --Peter Yang + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

Building community

lorenie12 — 2013-02-24 17:36:46

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- How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki?	+ Welcome to Teaching with Technology, a wiki about''' innovation in education'''. Learning and lessons have grown to such an extent through new features such as Smart Boards, Blackboards, Distance Learning, and more. The largest search engine, Google, has helped millions of people in research, and finding out basic information for academic needs. New technologies have been formed for the Hard of Hearing and Exceptional Learners. Chat Rooms, Discussion Boards, and Dropbox have enhanced studying, sharing information in classrooms, and allowing assignments to be submitted electronically. A school database containing every teacher and their students allows for electronic attendance. School medical and academic records are now computerized. College admissions are primarily online now, as well as scholarships.
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If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - I echo the idea that you must build something useful to yourself first--this way even if the wiki isn't growing as quickly as you'd like, you won't be too discouraged and it will continue to remain useful to you. Study what's out there and carve out a niche to fill an unmet need in information. For example, I'm an oncologist, and because there was a severe lack of what I felt were good references, I created a wiki that focuses on [http://hemonc.org/wiki/Main_Page chemotherapy regimens]. There is plenty of other information useful to doctors that is slowly being added, but the focus is always on the core information, the chemotherapy regimens, similar to how Google still focuses most on search/advertising. You need to make sure that you're able to stay dedicated and be a steady contributor to your wiki, so that even if nobody else is contributing during the growth phase, the wiki is not dead. You can't imagine how many unchanged and abandoned medical wikis I've seen; a ghost town is a big red flag to anybody who is thinking about adding content. Consider leveraging whatever social media connections or other websites you've created to help spread the word about your efforts. --Peter Yang - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ This overwhelming amount of resources has enhanced education to a great extent throughout the United States. Although many aspects of education are still suffering in our nation, these technological advancements have certainly given room for learning to grow, fostering learning, and enabling further success for students.

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tcnsc — 2013-02-13 16:27:05

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	+ Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" ===
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- Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things.	+ You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions ==
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- General thoughts & opinions. Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom	+ No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + I echo the idea that you must build something useful to yourself first--this way even if the wiki isn't growing as quickly as you'd like, you won't be too discouraged and it will continue to remain useful to you. Study what's out there and carve out a niche to fill an unmet need in information. For example, I'm an oncologist, and because there was a severe lack of what I felt were good references, I created a wiki that focuses on [http://hemonc.org/wiki/Main_Page chemotherapy regimens]. There is plenty of other information useful to doctors that is slowly being added, but the focus is always on the core information, the chemotherapy regimens, similar to how Google still focuses most on search/advertising. You need to make sure that you're able to stay dedicated and be a steady contributor to your wiki, so that even if nobody else is contributing during the growth phase, the wiki is not dead. You can't imagine how many unchanged and abandoned medical wikis I've seen; a ghost town is a big red flag to anybody who is thinking about adding content. Consider leveraging whatever social media connections or other websites you've created to help spread the word about your efforts. --Peter Yang + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree).

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StephaianeTurner — 2013-02-13 10:19:25

These users have comment on the wikis as a learning tool

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- No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - I echo the idea that you must build something useful to yourself first--this way even if the wiki isn't growing as quickly as you'd like, you won't be too discouraged and it will continue to remain useful to you. Study what's out there and carve out a niche to fill an unmet need in information. For example, I'm an oncologist, and because there was a severe lack of what I felt were good references, I created a wiki that focuses on [http://hemonc.org/wiki/Main_Page chemotherapy regimens]. There is plenty of other information useful to doctors that is slowly being added, but the focus is always on the core information, the chemotherapy regimens, similar to how Google still focuses most on search/advertising. You need to make sure that you're able to stay dedicated and be a steady contributor to your wiki, so that even if nobody else is contributing during the growth phase, the wiki is not dead. You can't imagine how many unchanged and abandoned medical wikis I've seen; a ghost town is a big red flag to anybody who is thinking about adding content. Consider leveraging whatever social media connections or other websites you've created to help spread the word about your efforts. --Peter Yang - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree).	+ General thoughts & opinions. Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom

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tcnsc — 2012-10-11 14:39:23

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CarolineBenitah — 2012-10-11 12:23:37

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CarolineBenitah — 2012-10-11 12:22:33

Upload of file wireless security.docx.

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2012-09-01 23:06:02

Revert to version 101 (don't see a reason that comment should be deleted).

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	+ I echo the idea that you must build something useful to yourself first--this way even if the wiki isn't growing as quickly as you'd like, you won't be too discouraged and it will continue to remain useful to you. Study what's out there and carve out a niche to fill an unmet need in information. For example, I'm an oncologist, and because there was a severe lack of what I felt were good references, I created a wiki that focuses on [http://hemonc.org/wiki/Main_Page chemotherapy regimens]. There is plenty of other information useful to doctors that is slowly being added, but the focus is always on the core information, the chemotherapy regimens, similar to how Google still focuses most on search/advertising. You need to make sure that you're able to stay dedicated and be a steady contributor to your wiki, so that even if nobody else is contributing during the growth phase, the wiki is not dead. You can't imagine how many unchanged and abandoned medical wikis I've seen; a ghost town is a big red flag to anybody who is thinking about adding content. Consider leveraging whatever social media connections or other websites you've created to help spread the word about your efforts. --Peter Yang

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- I echo the idea that you must build something useful to yourself first--this way even if the wiki isn't growing as quickly as you'd like, you won't be too discouraged and it will continue to remain useful to you. Study what's out there and carve out a niche to fill an unmet need in information. For example, I'm an oncologist, and because there was a severe lack of what I felt were good references, I created a wiki that focuses on [http://hemonc.org/wiki/Main_Page chemotherapy regimens]. There is plenty of other information useful to doctors that is slowly being added, but the focus is always on the core information, the chemotherapy regimens, similar to how Google still focuses most on search/advertising. You need to make sure that you're able to stay dedicated and be a steady contributor to your wiki, so that even if nobody else is contributing during the growth phase, the wiki is not dead. You can't imagine how many unchanged and abandoned medical wikis I've seen; a ghost town is a big red flag to anybody who is thinking about adding content. Consider leveraging whatever social media connections or other websites you've created to help spread the word about your efforts. --Peter Yang

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tcnsc — 2012-08-31 14:15:37

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- -->Are you stuck for lesson suggestions and resources? Browse through the resources your colleagues have shared below!<--<--<--	+ This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. + + == Preparation == + + Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + I echo the idea that you must build something useful to yourself first--this way even if the wiki isn't growing as quickly as you'd like, you won't be too discouraged and it will continue to remain useful to you. Study what's out there and carve out a niche to fill an unmet need in information. For example, I'm an oncologist, and because there was a severe lack of what I felt were good references, I created a wiki that focuses on [http://hemonc.org/wiki/Main_Page chemotherapy regimens]. There is plenty of other information useful to doctors that is slowly being added, but the focus is always on the core information, the chemotherapy regimens, similar to how Google still focuses most on search/advertising. You need to make sure that you're able to stay dedicated and be a steady contributor to your wiki, so that even if nobody else is contributing during the growth phase, the wiki is not dead. You can't imagine how many unchanged and abandoned medical wikis I've seen; a ghost town is a big red flag to anybody who is thinking about adding content. Consider leveraging whatever social media connections or other websites you've created to help spread the word about your efforts. --Peter Yang + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

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CatrinSwitchedOn — 2012-08-31 13:01:10

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- This http://www.michaelkorsoutletssatchel.com is a message to the website owner. Please http://www.discountmichaelkorssoutlet.com check out my friends website, he is http://www.michaelkorshamiltontotec.org offering a very good service that you may be intrested in http://www.michaelskorscheap.com . Does your website not get hardly http://www.michaelkorsoutletnnew.com any visitors or not rank for keywords with Google http://www.michaelkorsoutletprices.com ? Well he can help! He can provide you with tens of thousands of backlinks to your site!	+ --> '''Welcome to the Switched On Project's Wiki!''' <-- + + -->This is a space for all of our Tutors, Support Workers, Volunteers and core team members to share teaching resources.<-- + + -->Have you created a teaching resource you're proud of? Could you help a colleague by sharing your resource? If so, please feel free to upload your files!<-- + + -->Are you stuck for lesson suggestions and resources? Browse through the resources your colleagues have shared below!<--<--<--

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keqing66 — 2012-08-31 05:56:16

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- How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki? - - == Visualize your community == - - Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. - - == Preparation == - - Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - I echo the idea that you must build something useful to yourself first--this way even if the wiki isn't growing as quickly as you'd like, you won't be too discouraged and it will continue to remain useful to you. Study what's out there and carve out a niche to fill an unmet need in information. For example, I'm an oncologist, and because there was a severe lack of what I felt were good references, I created a wiki that focuses on [http://hemonc.org/wiki/Main_Page chemotherapy regimens]. There is plenty of other information useful to doctors that is slowly being added, but the focus is always on the core information, the chemotherapy regimens, similar to how Google still focuses most on search/advertising. You need to make sure that you're able to stay dedicated and be a steady contributor to your wiki, so that even if nobody else is contributing during the growth phase, the wiki is not dead. You can't imagine how many unchanged and abandoned medical wikis I've seen; a ghost town is a big red flag to anybody who is thinking about adding content. Consider leveraging whatever social media connections or other websites you've created to help spread the word about your efforts. --Peter Yang - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ This http://www.michaelkorsoutletssatchel.com is a message to the website owner. Please http://www.discountmichaelkorssoutlet.com check out my friends website, he is http://www.michaelkorshamiltontotec.org offering a very good service that you may be intrested in http://www.michaelskorscheap.com . Does your website not get hardly http://www.michaelkorsoutletnnew.com any visitors or not rank for keywords with Google http://www.michaelkorsoutletprices.com ? Well he can help! He can provide you with tens of thousands of backlinks to your site!

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2012-08-04 16:53:00

added my own thoughts and experience about wiki building

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	+ I echo the idea that you must build something useful to yourself first--this way even if the wiki isn't growing as quickly as you'd like, you won't be too discouraged and it will continue to remain useful to you. Study what's out there and carve out a niche to fill an unmet need in information. For example, I'm an oncologist, and because there was a severe lack of what I felt were good references, I created a wiki that focuses on [http://hemonc.org/wiki/Main_Page chemotherapy regimens]. There is plenty of other information useful to doctors that is slowly being added, but the focus is always on the core information, the chemotherapy regimens, similar to how Google still focuses most on search/advertising. You need to make sure that you're able to stay dedicated and be a steady contributor to your wiki, so that even if nobody else is contributing during the growth phase, the wiki is not dead. You can't imagine how many unchanged and abandoned medical wikis I've seen; a ghost town is a big red flag to anybody who is thinking about adding content. Consider leveraging whatever social media connections or other websites you've created to help spread the word about your efforts. --Peter Yang +

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tcnsc — 2012-06-27 15:28:24

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- It could be terrifying moving to a brand new town and also needing to discover a excellent therapeutic massage physical therapist which you feel safe working with. You will need to feel safe along with your therapeutic massage physical therapist in order to unwind completely and obtain the total advantage of the therapy that is provided.	+ How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki?
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- Just what Should you Try to find At a Brand new Town	+ == Visualize your community ==
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- 1. Critiques - Try to see if you're able to discover critiques which other folks published concerning therapeutic massage in your brand new metropolis that you will be moving to. By doing this you will observe whether you can find worthwhile or perhaps negative issues you will are looking for or even desire to steer clear of. To get critiques you need to use an easy internet search engine just like Yahoo and then enter therapeutic massage along with your town. For instance, if I had relocated so that you can waterloo I might look for “<a title="Massage Therapy Waterloo" href="http://massagetherapydr.com/massage-therapy-waterloo/">massage counseling waterloo</a>” or perhaps “<a title="Massage Therapy Waterloo" href="http://massagetherapydr.com/massage-therapy-waterloo/">massage counseling waterloo ontario</a>” and then critiques should show up.	+ Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests.
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	+ This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate.
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- 2. Testimonials - Make an effort to find several brand new close friends or perhaps fellow workers within your initial small bit within the brand new town. Next inquire further when they have got ever received therapeutic massage carried out and also exactly where do they have it. If they really loved the treatment you might visit the workplace they suggest.	+ == Preparation ==
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	+ Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests.
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- Additionally: You might question your brand-new medical doctor regarding suggestions. Medical doctors usually are present using the top therapeutic massage practitioners to be able to send sufferers when necessary for remedy.	+ For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material.
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- 3. Try things out - Don’t hesitate to test various therapeutic massage practitioners for a trial before you discover the one that suits your personality properly. There’s simply no justification around acquiring therapy carried out should you don’t feel safe or even you actually don’t sense it's aiding you.	+ Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes).
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- No matter what you decide, don’t stop trying, even if you need to try out a couple of negative therapists to get good quality doctors. No matter what you decide locate - a excellent therapeutic massage practitioner you may create a sound connection with that may help you both for years into the future.	+ Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

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JoeBayless — 2012-06-27 12:17:15

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- How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki?	+ It could be terrifying moving to a brand new town and also needing to discover a excellent therapeutic massage physical therapist which you feel safe working with. You will need to feel safe along with your therapeutic massage physical therapist in order to unwind completely and obtain the total advantage of the therapy that is provided.
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- == Visualize your community ==	+ Just what Should you Try to find At a Brand new Town
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- Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests.	+ 1. Critiques + Try to see if you're able to discover critiques which other folks published concerning therapeutic massage in your brand new metropolis that you will be moving to. By doing this you will observe whether you can find worthwhile or perhaps negative issues you will are looking for or even desire to steer clear of. To get critiques you need to use an easy internet search engine just like Yahoo and then enter therapeutic massage along with your town. For instance, if I had relocated so that you can waterloo I might look for “<a title="Massage Therapy Waterloo" href="http://massagetherapydr.com/massage-therapy-waterloo/">massage counseling waterloo</a>” or perhaps “<a title="Massage Therapy Waterloo" href="http://massagetherapydr.com/massage-therapy-waterloo/">massage counseling waterloo ontario</a>” and then critiques should show up.
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- This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate.
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- == Preparation ==	+ 2. Testimonials + Make an effort to find several brand new close friends or perhaps fellow workers within your initial small bit within the brand new town. Next inquire further when they have got ever received therapeutic massage carried out and also exactly where do they have it. If they really loved the treatment you might visit the workplace they suggest.
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- Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests.
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- For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material.	+ Additionally: You might question your brand-new medical doctor regarding suggestions. Medical doctors usually are present using the top therapeutic massage practitioners to be able to send sufferers when necessary for remedy.
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- Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes).	+ 3. Try things out + Don’t hesitate to test various therapeutic massage practitioners for a trial before you discover the one that suits your personality properly. There’s simply no justification around acquiring therapy carried out should you don’t feel safe or even you actually don’t sense it's aiding you.
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- Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ No matter what you decide, don’t stop trying, even if you need to try out a couple of negative therapists to get good quality doctors. No matter what you decide locate + a excellent therapeutic massage practitioner you may create a sound connection with that may help you both for years into the future.

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tcnsc — 2012-06-27 10:31:24

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How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki? + + == Visualize your community == + + Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. + + == Preparation == + + Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

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- How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki? - - == Visualize your community == - - Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. - - == Preparation == - - Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ Searching for an elegant tote different 2012 to be able to fill-up the clothing once again? You've put on sufficient those odd designed summary case handbags it's true you need to employ a series of trendy carriers to match with all your <a href="http://www.discountmichaelkorsoutlet.org/ "> www.discountmichaelkorsoutlet.org</a> spring as well as wintertime clothes. Good news will be there are certain popular carriers intended for females out there from the time different creative designers include started their particular collection- The Michael Kors <a href="http://www.discountmichaelkorsoutlet.org/ "> michael kors outlet store</a> Handbags have to have zero lengthy rewards, they're just identified thus to their best value, beautiful stuff, as well as secure dealing with. 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- When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge?	+ Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests.

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- Bienvenidos a “LET” (“Leaders in Educational Technology”) es un grupo doctoral compuesto por María del Mar López, Yaritza M. Vázquez y Bárbara Flores.	+ How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki?
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- Objetivo del blog: es requisito del curso Educ 810- Medios tecnológicos en educación y adiestramientos de la Universidad del Turabo. Profesora: Dra. Isabel Rivera, DBA.	+ == Visualize your community ==
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- En nuestra sociedad contamos con muchos líderes capaces de aspirar a cambiar el mundo. Sin embargo, en el contexto educativo, anhelamos líderes transformacionales que según Robbins (2004), logra que sus seguidores vean más allá de sus propios intereses y ejercen un profundo y extraordinario efecto sobre ellos. Debemos cuestionarnos si deseamos que las escuelas de Puerto Rico cuenten con una transformación desde los líderes hasta la comunidad educativa.	+ When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge? + + This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. + + == Preparation == + + Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

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- How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki?	+ Bienvenidos a “LET” (“Leaders in Educational Technology”) es un grupo doctoral compuesto por María del Mar López, Yaritza M. Vázquez y Bárbara Flores.
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- == Visualize your community ==	+ Objetivo del blog: es requisito del curso Educ 810- Medios tecnológicos en educación y adiestramientos de la Universidad del Turabo. Profesora: Dra. Isabel Rivera, DBA.
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- When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge? - - This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. - - == Preparation == - - Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ En nuestra sociedad contamos con muchos líderes capaces de aspirar a cambiar el mundo. Sin embargo, en el contexto educativo, anhelamos líderes transformacionales que según Robbins (2004), logra que sus seguidores vean más allá de sus propios intereses y ejercen un profundo y extraordinario efecto sobre ellos. Debemos cuestionarnos si deseamos que las escuelas de Puerto Rico cuenten con una transformación desde los líderes hasta la comunidad educativa.

Building community

PhilipNeustrom — 2012-04-18 01:31:30

Revert to version 87.

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- ''A Wiki Page is a website that allows vistors to add, remove, edit, and change the content. Where as a Blog Page is a website where entriees are made in Journal Style and displayed in reverse chronological order.''''' =	+ When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge? + + This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. + + == Preparation == + + Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

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StefanieGranato — 2012-04-18 01:01:42

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- When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge? - - This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. - - == Preparation == - - Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ ''A Wiki Page is a website that allows vistors to add, remove, edit, and change the content. Where as a Blog Page is a website where entriees are made in Journal Style and displayed in reverse chronological order.''''' =

Building community

tcnsc — 2012-03-06 14:18:21

Revert to version 85.

Differences for Building community

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- #redirect Angaina Pectoris	+ How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki? + + == Visualize your community == + + When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge? + + This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. + + == Preparation == + + Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

Building community

sarasugar — 2012-03-06 08:32:57

Renamed to "Angaina Pectoris"

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- How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki? - - == Visualize your community == - - When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge? - - This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. - - == Preparation == - - Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ #redirect Angaina Pectoris

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If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

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If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ asdf

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If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

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If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ ADD YOUR THOUGHTS HERE ABOUT THE IVK CASE!!!'''Bold text'''

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JabberWokky — 2010-05-21 14:34:02

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WilliamLewis — 2010-04-30 22:18:00

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	+ This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate.
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- Uno de los objetivos perseguidos por el ser humano, ha sido anular la distancia entre el hombre y la computadora, hasta el punto en que desaparezca la interfaz que lo separa, por medio de las nuevas tecnologías, esto ha logrado que emerja el término de ubicuidad.	+ == Preparation ==
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- Hoy en día se busca la invisibilidad, al querer eliminar esa ligadura con la computara y tratar de interactuar de manera natural, sin darnos cuenta de lo que traemos.	+ Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? 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- Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ Hoy en día se busca la invisibilidad, al querer eliminar esa ligadura con la computara y tratar de interactuar de manera natural, sin darnos cuenta de lo que traemos.

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- - Discussion forum - - Preparation of our interview questions to the invited speakers - - Further information (contact details etc.)	+ Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests.
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- Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2009 [[File(RIS_2009-Regional_Innovation_Scoreboard.pdf)]]	+ Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

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mawe — 2010-03-28 18:01:51

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mawe — 2010-03-28 17:53:20

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mawe — 2010-03-28 17:48:08

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mawe — 2010-03-28 17:46:24

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You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ == Preparation of the interview questions ==

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mawe — 2010-03-28 17:44:12

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mawe — 2010-03-28 17:41:12

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mawe — 2010-03-28 17:39:31

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WilliamLewis — 2010-03-09 22:25:47

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- Hi my name is Hanna.	+ How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki? + + == Visualize your community == + + When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge? + + This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. + + == Preparation == + + Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

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hannafrancesg — 2010-03-09 22:25:10

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If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ Hi my name is Hanna.

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WilliamLewis — 2010-02-04 16:55:16

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- Mapa mental é o nome dado para um tipo de diagrama, sistematizado pelo inglês Tony Buzan, voltado para a gestão de informações, de conhecimento e de capital intelectual; para a compreensão e solução de problemas; na memorização e aprendizado; na criação de manuais, livros e palestras; como ferramenta de brainstorming (tempestade cerebral); e no auxílio da gestão estratégica de uma empresa ou negócio.	+ How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki? + + == Visualize your community == + + When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge? + + This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. + + == Preparation == + + Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

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Tomás — 2009-12-14 14:07:55

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- How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki? - - == Visualize your community == - - When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge? - - This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. - - == Preparation == - - Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ Mapa mental é o nome dado para um tipo de diagrama, sistematizado pelo inglês Tony Buzan, voltado para a gestão de informações, de conhecimento e de capital intelectual; para a compreensão e solução de problemas; na memorização e aprendizado; na criação de manuais, livros e palestras; como ferramenta de brainstorming (tempestade cerebral); e no auxílio da gestão estratégica de uma empresa ou negócio.

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PhilipNeustrom — 2009-10-24 03:19:00

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-	+ An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree).

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- One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki.	+ One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki.

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- An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree).	+

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PhilipNeustrom — 2009-10-24 03:05:38

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- For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, he will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that he is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak.	+ For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak.

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- For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak.	+ For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, he will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that he is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak.

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JabberWokky — 2009-09-10 17:28:37

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- ==American Sports== - This wiki is an open forum for the discussion of what sports are popular in the United States and why they are popular. It also meant to discuss those sports that are popular abroad, yet fail to appeal to Americans. The sports that immediately come to mind as being most popular in America are Baseball, Football, and Basketball. The sports that are very popular abroad but are much less popular in the U.S. include soccer (futbol, or football in the U.K.), and Cricket. So each heading will propose some main idea and the body beneath the heading will discuss this idea in greater detail. Feel free to edit any part of the document you wish.	+ How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki?
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- =Attention Span= - Americans tend to have a short attention span when it comes to watching events. We enjoy short bursts of action followed by periods of time with no action. This could justify why we enjoy baseball and football so much. Football has an especially high energy associated with every play. There is never a dull second when a play is taking place. After each play there is a period of time that the audience can talk to their friends or do whatever else they wish. Following that short break there is another period of high energy play. Baseball could be viewed in a similar manner. It does not require you to watch every second of a long game. There are several breaks between pitches, batters, and innings. This means that there are periods of intense action followed by periods of a break from the action. Basketball is more difficult to fit into this category. However, we could make the assumption that there is always a high level of intensity associated with basketball. Basketball is a high scoring game. This rapid scoring in rapid succession appeases the American viewer who is typically impatient. This impatience could also explain why soccer has not been one of America's favorite sports. Watching a soccer game requires a long attention span and lots of patience. In a 90 minute game a team could score at any time. Soccer teams slowly build up plays and pass back and forth until a perfect opportunity arises to shoot for a goal. If you look away for an instant you may miss a goal, assuming there is a goal scored at all. Often soccer games will end with neither team scoring a single goal. Cricket is a sport that has a series of complicated rules and can actually last for days. This does not mesh well with the short attention span of Americans. - [[Image(spins.jpg)]]	+ == Visualize your community ==
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- =Social Drinking= - Americans often associate sports with socially drinking alcohol. The stop and go action associated with football and baseball facilitate this social drinking. The time between plays in football, and pitches in baseball allow viewers the time to grab their beverage, take a drink, and rejoin the action as the next play or pitch is getting ready to take place. These sporting events are also conducive to drinking alcohol while viewing in a pub or bar setting as well. The breaks between innings in baseball and quarters in football and basketball allow fans the time needed to approach the bar to order their drinks. Soccer does not afford these breaks. Soccer is divided into two 45 minute halves. The only scheduled break that takes place is the half time. Constant play in soccer affords viewers little time to engage in social drinking for fear they may miss the scoring of a goal. - [[Image(glass.jpg)]] [[Image(pub.jpg)]]	+ When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge? + + This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. + + == Preparation == + + Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. + + For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. + + == Outreach == + + Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). + + Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). + + === Starting small and "opening up" === + + For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. + + For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. + + A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. + + == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == + + Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. + + Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. + + You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. + + == Establishing Dispute Resolution == + + Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. + + == Misconceptions == + + One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. + + No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. + + = General thoughts & opinions = + == Build something for you & your friends == + One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] + + == Don't be boring at first == + I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. + + An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). + + My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]

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WillyC — 2009-09-10 16:50:05

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- How can we help our wiki become successful? How can we maintain and build a community around our wiki?	+ This wiki is an open forum for the discussion of what sports are popular in the United States and why they are popular. It also meant to discuss those sports that are popular abroad, yet fail to appeal to Americans. The sports that immediately come to mind as being most popular in America are Baseball, Football, and Basketball. The sports that are very popular abroad but are much less popular in the U.S. include soccer (futbol, or football in the U.K.), and Cricket. So each heading will propose some main idea and the body beneath the heading will discuss this idea in greater detail. Feel free to edit any part of the document you wish.
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- == Visualize your community ==	+ =Attention Span= + Americans tend to have a short attention span when it comes to watching events. We enjoy short bursts of action followed by periods of time with no action. This could justify why we enjoy baseball and football so much. Football has an especially high energy associated with every play. There is never a dull second when a play is taking place. After each play there is a period of time that the audience can talk to their friends or do whatever else they wish. Following that short break there is another period of high energy play. Baseball could be viewed in a similar manner. It does not require you to watch every second of a long game. There are several breaks between pitches, batters, and innings. This means that there are periods of intense action followed by periods of a break from the action. Basketball is more difficult to fit into this category. However, we could make the assumption that there is always a high level of intensity associated with basketball. Basketball is a high scoring game. This rapid scoring in rapid succession appeases the American viewer who is typically impatient. This impatience could also explain why soccer has not been one of America's favorite sports. Watching a soccer game requires a long attention span and lots of patience. In a 90 minute game a team could score at any time. Soccer teams slowly build up plays and pass back and forth until a perfect opportunity arises to shoot for a goal. If you look away for an instant you may miss a goal, assuming there is a goal scored at all. Often soccer games will end with neither team scoring a single goal. Cricket is a sport that has a series of complicated rules and can actually last for days. This does not mesh well with the short attention span of Americans. + [[Image(spins.jpg)]]
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- When you think about what you want your wiki to look like in the long run what do you see? Is it focused on a common interest, or on a common location? Interest wikis' memberships will be defined by the scope of the interest, and location-based wikis' memberships will be defined by the geography or social ties. Is it an active group, or will the wiki serve more as a repository of gained knowledge? - - This process will help you define what you are trying to achieve, and in doing so it will also help you establish the metrics by which you will judge the eventual success of the wiki you initiate. - - == Preparation == - - Set up enough[[Footnote(How many this is quantitatively depends on your subject and the group of potential contributors)]] pages to establish a core upon which people can build. If you want everyone in a location to participate try to set up some seed pages that will catch the interest of early adopters in each sector of the community. If you focus exclusively on bars and nightspots at the beginning, you will be less likely to attract a broad range of users than if you seed out a variety of interests. - - For an interest wiki you might start with what you know about the subject and provide some organization for that material. - - == Outreach == - - Start with your early adopters. These are the people who will help expand your core. For a location-based wiki start with a few of your friends; for an interest based wiki start with your existing interest group or contacts. You can also use the existing ["Interwiki Community" Wiki Spot community] to help you get your wiki off the ground (a good supply of wiki gnomes). - - Then work to flesh out your user community to increase the breadth of representation. This can be a slow process. Location-based wikis can take advantage of existing media to spread the word of their existence (e.g. fliers, spray-painted buses, blimps with your wiki's logo on it). - - === Starting small and "opening up" === - - For many wikis, opening up to the general public too early can create misconceptions and dampen the excitement of editors. When someone who's not been involved in your wiki checks it out, she will form impressions about your wiki. These impressions might make her not want to contribute -- after all, there might not be much there, or much that she is interested in. This means the core group of editors you start out with will have to keep working to build interesting material, despite the fact others will visit and "walk away," so to speak. - - For some, opening up a wiki in its extreme infant stages presents no problem -- it all depends on the needs of your community and the purpose of your wiki. Opening up in a wiki's early stages can work well as long as the purpose and drive of the community is there from the start. - - A good read on some more of this seeding process can be found [wiki:Meatball:"SeedPosting" here]. - - == Ongoing Guidance and Growth == - - Act as a member of the community that you visualize. You can and perhaps should lead, but if you do then it's better to lead by example than to give orders. Trying to establish too much authority will not result in a healthy community. Remember, wiki works because everyone is an editor, and it is best if everyone feels like they are an important and co-equal part of a community. - - Sometimes taking the time to clearly explain your actions and the reasons you have for making them can help convey this to other editors. You can do this either by commenting in the "Please comment about this change:" area when you edit a page, or in the edit itself if that is appropriate. - - You can always call on the [wiki:gnome Gnomes] to come and help out. - - == Establishing Dispute Resolution == - - Fostering communal mediation is a good way to turn the direction of the community over to the users. You can choose to use ["Talk Pages" talk pages] to resolve nearly every dispute, or you can try to resolve things within a wiki page itself by thoughtful [wiki:c2:"ReFactor" refactoring]. In either case, the important thing is to get individuals to talk out their issues rather than get caught up brutal deletion-reversion cycles. - - == Misconceptions == - - One of the most common misconceptions about starting a wiki is that you can throw a wiki up on the web and expect it to grow simply out of inertia. Wikis build themselves, but much like any ecosystem, you have to have the right amount of starting material and a dedicated initial base of contributors to get things rolling. If I stumble upon your wiki will I get an idea of what you want to do? Will I find your wiki interesting even if it doesn't have a lot of content on it? All wikis are different, but these should be questions you think about as you begin building your wiki. - - No one has to expend their effort to improve a wiki, you want to foster the desire to improve it by caring for it. A well-tended garden doesn't get littered in as often as a poorly-tended one. - - = General thoughts & opinions = - == Build something for you & your friends == - One strategy that worked well for Davis Wiki, when we were first getting started out, was just building something that our small group of people were happy with -- even if the larger community didn't end up using it. We always knew that it would be terrific if more people contributed, but we were really happy just building something simple that we found useful. I think that kind of attitude, at least early on, can really help to build something meaningful. --["Users/PhilipNeustrom" PhilipNeustrom] - - == Don't be boring at first == - I don't think you have to have more than 300 pages (that's about what Davis Wiki had), and it's certainly true that you don't want to create a bunch of boring framework pages. But you should have something compelling and interesting. - - An easy way to do this is to have lots and lots of pictures. This is often easier than writing long articles and is a great way to document landmarks, businesses, events, etc. Most of my favorite pages on Davis Wiki contain photos (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/Payphone_Project) and over time these pictures will only become more valuable and interesting as things change and disappear (i.e., http://daviswiki.org/The_Jagged_Tree). - - My advice would be to focus less on adding businesses (this is too difficult to do with few editors anyway) and instead be creative and flesh out pages like http://ithaca.wikispot.org/Oddities. With lots of pictures that could be some compelling stuff that no other web site will ever have. Ever get lost and waste a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia? But probably not so much on Yelp, right? '''Zoom in on the quirky stuff that gives your city its character and create a network of fun pages that the user will want to explore once they start reading.''' When you come up with a unique page, post a prominent link right on the front page. Good luck! --["Users/MikeIvanov"]	+ =Social Drinking= + Americans often associate sports with socially drinking alcohol. The stop and go action associated with football and baseball facilitate this social drinking. The time between plays in football, and pitches in baseball allow viewers the time to grab their beverage, take a drink, and rejoin the action as the next play or pitch is getting ready to take place. These sporting events are also conducive to drinking alcohol while viewing in a pub or bar setting as well. The breaks between innings in baseball and quarters in football and basketball allow fans the time needed to approach the bar to order their drinks. Soccer does not afford these breaks. Soccer is divided into two 45 minute halves. The only scheduled break that takes place is the half time. Constant play in soccer affords viewers little time to engage in social drinking for fear they may miss the scoring of a goal. + [[Image(glass.jpg)]] [[Image(pub.jpg)]]

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