How a Wiki Works

Oddmuse: What is a Wiki?

Reference
AboutTwitter
TwitLit - early notes on the short form
BlogsAndWikisTour
BloggingActivitiesExercise and TwitteringActivitesExercise

participants
OrieHouse: http://owozifa.wordpress.com/
SarahPeterson: http://aridatha.wordpress.com/
TonyHansen: http://tonyhansen.wordpress.com/
TammiHartung: http://tammihartung.wordpress.com/
DustinHorner: http://dusthorn.wordpress.com/
BillStafford: http://bstaff5458.wordpress.com/
AnewRose: http://anewrose.wordpress.com/
PhilPeterson: http://phil7peterson.wordpress.com/
AndyHotzler: http://hotz25.wordpress.com
EmilyCarlson: http://emjcarlson.wordpress.com
AlannaGauthier: http://estebanscigar.wordpress.com/
JessicaPlassmeyer: http://jessicaplassmeyer.wordpress.com/
AmyBorgman: http://amyboogerman.wordpress.com/
NikiaHensel: http://nikiadawn.wordpress.com/
SidJohnson: http://sidisshortforsidekick.wordpress.com/
ZachGreenfield: http://zgreenfield.wordpress.com
LaurenOlson: http://thatwastotallywicked.wordpress.com/
MichaelPapke: http://www.papke.wordpress.com

Weblogs and Wikis

ENGL 3177/5177

Because new tools create new ways of understanding.
Morgan's Wiki | The Daybook | Twitter stream
CourseSyllabus | CourseStatement2010
CreativeCommonsLicensing | AboutThisWiki

Announcements

Fri 5 Feb

- No face to face meeting. Online exercise on the wiki, leading to Monday and Wednesday consideration of WritingOnAWiki.

Friday Exercise 5 Feb - Sun 7 Feb

Wikis change the postions of writer and reader - as blogs do but more so. But even more, they alter how writing gets written, making drafting more public, slowing down revision, and adding an aspect to writing: refactoring. More than traditionally, wikis demand that writers share a common sense of the material process, and a shared idea of how the text will be worked with.

Become familiar with the shared processes of writing on a wiki. Read the StyleGuide, and the pages linked from that page: ThreadMode, DocumentMode, and RefactoringPages.

Read also Wide Open Spaces: Wikis Ready or Not by Brian Lamb.

Then visit our page titled WideOpenSpaces and start and add to the ThreadMode discussion. You might also contribute to some of the topics already started.

You task is to become familiar with the conversation we've been having on this wiki for the past few years, and to find a place or topic to enter and add to. Post at least once. Better to return later and post a second time. Or post to other topics. If you post to other topics, keep track of those topics.

The discussants are students in this class past and present. You have nothing to fear.

Mon 8 Feb

Everyone should have read the materials and posted to the wiki at least once. These exercises are part of your grade.

Discussion on wikis: Ok. I'm here. Now what do I do?
- compositional practices: WritingOnAWiki
- social practices: StyleGuide and CollaborationConventions
- ReadingTheWikiPage
- tools: Search, PageIndex, RecentChanges, Categories
- highlights of Lamb's Wide Open Spaces
Who's been adding to the wiki where. Check the RecentChanges.

for Weds

Continue WritingOnAWiki for Wednesday. WideOpenSpaces is a good starting point.
read Woods and Thoeny, chap 3, and chap 15 and 16 for discussion on Wednesday

Past due

WikiName page set up: SettingUpAWikiNamePage
Friday exercise contributions on pages

Weds 10 Feb

on deck

Subscribing to RSS feeds
- Watch RSS in Plain English, youtube vid
- Go to http://google.com/reader
- Sign up for a google.com account, or use your current account.
- Locate feeds and add them to your stream.
- check goodie page
- check manage subs page
- reminder - add the Press This bookmarklet

- Intimate or Sincere: blogging pdf
- The Backchannel: readings and response
- http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/11/24/spectacle_at_we.html
- http://pistachioconsulting.com/twitter-presentations/

Recent Pages

IlluminatedManuscriptsAndBlogs
AboutTwitter

Features spring 2010: Conversation and community with WordPress, wikis, and Flickr; micro-blogging with Twitter, mini-blogging with Tumblr.

Parallel Course

ENGL 3179/5179: Elements of Electronic Rhetoric investigates the rhetorical significance behind weblogs, wikis, microblogging, and Flickr through a series of student-designed projects. The principles behind the practice. Spring, 2010. !0:00 T and R.

Useful pages: FormattingRulesPart1, FormattingRulesPart2, WikkaDocumentation, OrphanedPages, WantedPages, TextSearch

Fishbowl. Want in? Contact mmorgan at bemidjistate dot edu

Questions Welcome

to M C Morgan.

(Draft) topics for Spring 2010

- Web 2.0 and social software
- Blogging, microblogging, content sharing with Flickr: Tumblr, Twitter, Brightkite.
- New relations between writer and audience, a new (or not so new?) sense of authenticity, exposition and concision, reflection and immediacy, static and mobile.
- Wiki projects
- 100 pages / 100 writers
- interview / poll / discuss / link
- http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/13/15-productive-uses-for-a-wiki/
- http://mashable.com/2008/12/31/wiki-resources/

Ongoing

- WikiWritingHandbook. A text in 100 pages

A growing list of pages
- PagePatterns - develop each and add to the list
- WikiRoles
- UsesOfWikis
- ...
- Also see My delicious tag: wikis.

TopicsForDiscussion

Wanna talk about something on this wiki? Make a list.

Getting Started

Login (I'll give participants login instructions, or email me), then double-click on any page, or click on the "Edit page" link at the bottom to get started.

FormattingRulesPart1 (was GettingStarted) has basic editing and formatting instructions. SandBox is a space to practice editing. Our StyleGuide lists wiki writing conventions. And CollaborationConventions is a developing set of conventions for working collaboratively on this wiki. But we also encourage you to CollaborateRadically. Follow WikiLove.

- Wiki:GoodWikiCitizen - on WikiWikiWeb lists suggestions for respect.
- Wiki:FixYourWiki is another starting point for the collaborative-minded

When you're comfortable, jump in.

Where's the old stuff?

- old Daybook
- Old Wiki
- The Daybook

This site is running on version n/a (see WikkaReleaseNotes). Visit the WikkaWiki website.\