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Recently Edited Pages on the UBC Wiki- File:Img 1260.webp December 13, 2024 AllanFujishima
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- Documentation:Open Case Studies/FRST522/2024/Lake Huron Community Forest, Michigan, USA: A Nonprofit Model for Ecological and Educational Stewardship December 13, 2024 EmmaShenton
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Wiki Roadtrip: Davis
Davis, California, is home to one of the largest municipal-focused wikis in the world. As of November 2009, DavisWiki.org had over 14,945 pages, 11,134 registered editors, and averaged 10,000 unique visitors daily. Not bad for a town with a population … Continue reading
Posted in Wiki Resources, Wiki Roadtrip
Tagged best practices, coop, links, resources, wiki roadtrip
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Consolidating the Crops: Revisiting the Main space
The UBC Wiki, as originally described, serves multiple purposes: It is a course repository: The wiki provides a collaborative space for faculty and students to create and share course related content. It is a documentation repository: The wiki provides a … Continue reading
Learning by Doing, Training by Tinkering
I installed a local version of MediaWiki on my laptop today. MediaWiki is the software platform on which the UBC Wiki runs and I wanted to go through this process for a couple of different reasons: First, I hope to … Continue reading
Tagged coop, Installation, MediaWiki, Wiki Tools
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Converting Documents into Wiki Pages
In addition to an overall organizational structure, a wiki also should have some organization within its individual pages. The use of headings, subheadings, bold, bullet points, and the like make an individual article or page easier to scan, navigate, and … Continue reading
Tagged coop, editing, formatting, Wiki Markup, Wiki Syntax, Wiki Tools, Word Processing
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Quick Thoughts About Purpose & Community
I’ve been thinking a lot about the purpose of the UBC Wiki. Wikipedia has a pretty narrowly defined purpose: it is an encyclopedia. Only content that fits with their mission of being an encyclopedia is allowed to remain. Inherit in … Continue reading
Wayfinding on the Wiki
Wayfinding, as Wikipedia succinctly summarizes it, refers to the user experience of orientation and choosing a path within the built environment and to the set of architectural and/or design elements that aid in that orientation. While signage is an important … Continue reading
Posted in Wiki Organization
Tagged book creator, colour, coop, namespaces, signage, wayfinding
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General Thoughts on Correcting the Course: Conundrum
Here are some preliminary thoughts on correcting what I have begun calling the Course: Conundrum (the creation of course specific pages in the main space of the wiki instead of into the Course namespace). In general, I really like the … Continue reading
Categorization Manipulation
One of the main tools to organize a wiki is categories. Mark Choate, in his book Professional Wikis, describes adding categories to a wiki article as a parallel to adding tags to a blog article or a photo: tags and … Continue reading
Tagged Categories, coop, organization, tags
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More on the Wiki Gardening Project
I added a Wiki Gardening page to the UBC Wiki. The new page has a detailed project overview and some of the specific tasks on which I will be focusing. The purpose of creating this page is to provide some … Continue reading
Tagged About, coop
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