ToDo: Draft some broad categories of use - community and individual - and the affordances of the wiki that make it useful for these purposes.
Also might consider each by purpose / collective or individual / virtual community or physical community
Also might consider each by purpose / collective or individual / virtual community or physical community
Uses of Wikis
with examples- encyclopedia
- handbook: WikiWritingHandbook
- guide: Owl - BSU library wiki
from Mader, wikipatterns
- peer directory, in the manner of Facebook
- creating agendas, keeping notes for meetings
- project management
- knowledge base: http://wikipatterns.com, http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/
- support site
- event planning. see Wiki in Plain English: the movie
A list from Wikis for Dummies would be good here -
others
- focused development space: MeatballWiki, c2
- hypertext novel
- hypertext essay space
- personal note spaces
- efolio
- blogging?
some wikis
