Product Description: This lively guide to the wiki phenomenon narrates the history of wikis, explains how they work, and projects the future of these collaborative, content-driven sites based on developments already under way. With lists of the most popular wikis, biographies of the key figures of the wiki movement, and a timeline of feature developments integrated into wikis today, readers will finish this book feeling confident in their ability to understand, use, and create a wiki on any subject...read more

Product Description: Wikis can bring people from around the world together to collaborate on online projects. Wikis also offer a great opportunity to practice using technology to produce and publishing writing. Readers of this book will learn how to create, edit, and manage a wiki...read more

Product Description: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from across the Known Multiverse is an anthology of short fictions by Nisi Shawl, Anna Tambour, Lucy Sussex, Mark Rich, and others. Ever wonder who that frequent addressee of Anglophone Nineteenth-century narrators, ''Dear Reader,'' really was? Or about the true story on which Edgar Allan Poe based his melodramatic '''Fall of the House of Usher''? Perhaps it never occurred to you to wonder whether there might have been a relationship between H...read more

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Product Description: Learn how to use wikis effectively and responsibily.

Product Description: As the 8th most visited site on the Internet according to the Alexa Internet traffic ratings, and with more than 30 million new words a month of content added regularly, Wikipedia has become a symbol of the web s current incarnation the collaborative project that has developed around the world to compile the knowledge and expertise of everyone...read more

Product Description: See how to use various digital tools including blogs, wikis, digital mapping, online chat, digital storytelling, podcasts, e-portfolios, and others to teach writing in the classroom. Packed with examples of teaching activities and student writing, this one-of-its-kind book demonstrates how to use search engines and digital mapping to develop information, online discussion tools and blogs to formulate ideas, Wikis to write collaboratively, digital storytelling and poetry to create multimodal texts, podcasts and vlogs to create audio and video texts, online commenting tools to provide peer feedback, and much more...read more

Product Description: This study describes the rapid growth of user-created web content, its increasing role in worldwide communication, and the resulting policy implications. Questions addressed include: What is user-created content? What are its key drivers, its scope, and different forms? What are the new value chains and business models? What are the extent and form of social, cultural, and economic opportunities and impacts? What are the associated challenges? Is there a government role, and what form could it take? Contents include: • Defining and Measuring the Participative Web and User-Created Content • Drivers of User-Created Content • Types of User-Created Content and Distribution Platforms • Emerging Value Chains and Business Models • Economic and Social Impacts • Opportunities and Challenges for Users, Business and Polic...read more

Provides information on setting up a wiki site, covering such topics as contributing content, finding a hosted home, wiki design, attracting users, wiki engines, and security.

Product Description: Wikis as information sources, as a form of publishing, and as tools for collaboration, are discussed in this book. The applications of wikis in library and information services, education and business are explored, with examples. Provides an overview of wikis, in the context of the increasing use of ‘social software’ and the trend towards a more interactive World Wide Web...read more