“Comparing featured article groups and revision patterns correlations in Wikipedia” by Giacomo Poderi

“… This article focuses on Wikipedia’s Featured Articles and shows that not every contribution can be considered as being of equal quality. Two groups of articles are analysed by focusing on the edits distribution and the main editors’ contribution. The research shows how these aspects of the revision patterns can change dependent upon the category to which the articles belong.”

Luminotes – A personal wiki-based notebook with a WYSIWYG editor. A downloadable version is also available

Metadot – A free and very easy to use wiki host.

Nexdo – A wiki for knowledge and project management that includes free and paid versions.

PicoWiki – A wiki specifically for smartphones, PDAs, iPhones and Blackberries.

ConnectedText – A free personal wiki for managing your information, notes, and more.

daisy – A content repository and management system with a wiki front-end.

Deki – A downloadable, open source enterprise wiki.

DokuWiki – A standards-compliant wiki specifically for documentation creation.

ErfurtWiki – A PHP-based wiki.

Foswiki – An open-source wiki that supports active and passive macros to enhance usability and
functionality.

For the whole list:

http://mashable.com/2008/12/31/wiki-resources/

h/t to Ellyssa Krosk of the iLibrarian blog:

http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/

Posted by Rich

They called it a “Swiss Army Knife” program which has everything you need to create an intranet, including Microsoft Office, but not necessarily the best modules in the world. There are better wiki program around. Lotus Notes does not work well with the program.

Not all intranet content requires SharePoint for content management. They developed criteria for utilizing SharePoint through the Internet. It needs to updated frequently, requires group collaboration.
It works only with Windows Explorer. By using the intranet, all information will be online. In one instance, staff didn’t know that storytime was cancelled. Now it will be available when staff boots up the computer.

Here’s a picture of the SJL Intranet site:

Here’s a picture of Sarah showing the Meeting Workspaces module:

Posted by Rich

Thanks, Garrett!

& Happy Labor Day!

(Guess I should stop laboring, eh?)

The exact identity of the contributor is unknown (according to NPR), but the account was only used to edit her article, the name is coincidentally similar to her son’s name, and the account owner seems to know a lot about Palin. The actions, of course, were a red flag. Editing the entry has now been appropriately restricted. The NPR segment explains in more detail why the editing is problematic and restrictions on contributing to articles. (At least the person bothered to establish an account. That’s a very good start.)

Remember when the political + Wikipedia stories were more along the lines of “Hey, there’s campaign information in Wikipedia!” and less along the lines of candidates and politicians or their own staff members editing their entries?

Oddly enough, I learned about McCain’s vice presidential choice through this story about Wikipedia. I heard the encyclopedia’s name on the radio and my ears perked up.

Addendum 9/1: Brian Krebs covers this issue in The Washington Post.

“But blogs, it turns out, are just one of the do-it-yourself tools to emerge on the Internet. Vast social networks such as Facebook and MySpace offer people new ways to meet and exchange information. Sites like LinkedIn help millions forge important work relationships and alliances. New applications pop up every week. While only a small slice of the population wants to blog, a far larger swath of humanity is eager to make friends and contacts, to exchange pictures and music, to share activities and ideas.”

 
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2008/beyond-blogs/

Posted by Rich

I wonder if Britannica includes Wikimedia contributors among its list of Web publishers …

“[T]he Oxford English Dictionary, arguably the greatest reference work in the English language…found its origins in a wiki model, whereby scholars put out the word to English speakers far and wide that they would welcome hard evidence of the earliest appearances of English words.”

Garrett pointed me to a piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus comparing Wikipedia and the Oxford English Dictionary, which points to the original source, the Oxford University Press Blog. One advantage of a wiki over a physical work: it’s less likely a building holding a wiki will have a structure inadequate to handle the weight of the paper. The piece is brief and worth the read.

Is it just a coincidence that she’s telling us about Egypt now when Wikimania will be there in July?

"Students can take responsibility for their work for course credits, and teachers grade the finished work based on the quality of the final article produced from each student’s input.

But students not only get to earn grade credits, they add to the global store of knowledge as they earn their written course assignment credits. By collaborating with the rapidly growing Citizendium (CZ) community of expert and non-expert authors, they can have their essays become a lasting article in the Citizendium."