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Comment on UBC Wiki Homepage Receives 1,000,000 Page View by Tweets that mention UBC Wiki Homepage Receives 1,000,000 Page View | Gardening the Wiki -- Topsy.com

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:59:01 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Justin Yang, Bryan Alexander, Brian Lamb, kylemackie, Jens Haeusser and others. Jens Haeusser said: Congrats! RT @brlamb: The UBC Wiki, which soft-launched in July 2009, just had the 1,000,000th view of its home page: http://bit.ly/ayUwd1 [...]

Comment on UBC Wiki Homepage Receives 1,000,000 Page View by wikiadmin

wikiadmin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:09:51 +0000

Thanks! It’s exciting to see wiki use continue to grow. I hope to return to more substantial blogging about some of my gardening projects and ideas soon.

Comment on UBC Wiki Homepage Receives 1,000,000 Page View by Jim

Jim — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:49:22 +0000

Wow, congratulations! That is a big number, and I am modeling our clean-up and work on your gardening techniques, so thanks for blogging all this.

Comment on Quick Thoughts About Purpose & Community by Gardening the wiki, order in chaos

Gardening the wiki, order in chaos — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:15:10 +0000

[...] I really like the balance Will has struck between keeping things tidy and doing so with a light and human touch. To get a sense of his approach, I recommend you check out the blog he maintains, it makes great reading for anyone who wrestles with managing a diverse and active community on an open platform. Recent posts have dealt with the implied ownership philosophy on an open wiki, seeding articles, purpose and community… [...]

Comment on Wiki Seeding by Gardening the wiki, order in chaos

Gardening the wiki, order in chaos — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:54:26 +0000

[...] on an open platform. Recent posts have dealt with the implied ownership philosophy on an open wiki, seeding articles, purpose and [...]

Comment on Philosophical Ownership & Open Collaboration by Gardening the wiki, order in chaos

Gardening the wiki, order in chaos — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:51:17 +0000

[...] with managing a diverse and active community on an open platform. Recent posts have dealt with the implied ownership philosophy on an open wiki, seeding articles, purpose and [...]

Comment on Wiki Roadtrip: Davis by Wiki Seeding

Wiki Seeding — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:34:22 +0000

[...] an earlier post, I listed some lessons that helped the Davis Wiki become widely used. One of the the lessons that [...]

Comment on Wiki Roadtrip: Davis by wikiadmin

wikiadmin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:02:07 +0000

Hi Novak – I think those are good questions and I’ll address them in a post this week.

Comment on Wiki Roadtrip: Davis by novak rogic

novak rogic — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:35:40 +0000

I am wondering if we were like to create the “seeding” 500 or 1000 articles – what would be the right strategy to distribute the effort and engage different user groups academic vs staff vs students and across various disciplines and fields.

Comment on Wiki Roadtrip: Davis by Gagan Sandhu

Gagan Sandhu — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:52:22 +0000

Cool Post! I totally agree with the piece around promoting what you develop instead of just continually developing and nobody knowing about it!! I particularly liked these two points:
* Keep your content open source, no matter what
* Don’t get hung up on mimicking Wikipedia
Btw, the meeting is about to start!