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Category Archives: wikis

Wikis big and small – the difference is trust

Stephen commented on Quentin D’Souza’s post regarding building a wiki community (originally from Danny Horn of Muppet Wiki). Wikipedia, he says, is not just a larger wiki with a larger contributor base than a small wiki with a group of 50 contributors (such as Muppet Wiki). Wikipedia can control content by having a large base [...]

Project done!

It is now all finished. The project is complete, even after some major setbacks. The paper that accompanies the project is done. And the presentation was this morning. Done, done and done. I still have one more class before I can add more letters after my name, but the big hurdle is finished. One of [...]

Wikipedia and stupidity – EdTech Posse Podcast 2.5 is available

The EdTech Posse Podcast 2.5 is out. Heather Ross and I had a great conversation about wikipedia and stupidity (not implying any connection, but you can draw your own conclusions).

Google has acquired JotSpot

Google has acquired JotSpot Fear the Google-plex. They know all, they search all. But I’m still keeping my Gmail account. And I’ll probably use the wiki when it is available. I’ve always liked JotSpot but didn’t feel it was worth paying for with so many other free wiki spaces available (like wikispaces or pbwiki). Now [...]

Wikibookwiki – a hybrid publishing model

Just saw this via Brian Lamb: Stewart Mader has published a book Using Wiki in Education, which has some interesting sounding (I haven’t actually read the book yet, so this is one of those Read The Fine Article reviews) case studies of wikis being integrated into a variety of settings. Stewart’s publishing model is an [...]