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Recently Edited Pages on the UBC Wiki- Week 8 November 21, 2024 ChrisAhn
- ECON371/UBCO2024WT1/NewsWiki/group2 November 21, 2024 EricPaul
- Wiki 8 November 21, 2024 EricPaul
- Documentation:RelLex/Dr. Anne Anderson's Metis Cree Dictionary November 21, 2024 SannWilder
- Course:APBI496 November 21, 2024 SaraDubois
Author Archives: Will (WikiAdmin)
Philosophical Ownership & Open Collaboration
Occasionally, I get inquiries if it is possible to create or modify a page on the UBC Wiki so it is only editable or viewable by an invited group of people. The UBC Wiki is an open platform with no … Continue reading
Posted in Purpose, Wiki Organization
Tagged community, coop, editing, namespaces, organization, sharing, tips, watchlists
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Wiki Seeding
In an earlier post, I listed some lessons that helped the Davis Wiki become widely used. One of these lessons that stood out is the idea that wikis need content to breed content. The founders of the Davis Wiki created … Continue reading
Wiki Drop-In Support Sessions
Have questions on wiki mark-up, organizing your content, embedding media, or any other topic? I’ll be offering drop-in support sessions for the UBC Wiki. In my mind, these will be sessions where I am able to give one on-one help … Continue reading
UBC Wiki Support Group Created
The UBC Blogs platform has gone social; it is now supporting groups, forums, and activity tracking. On the new platform, a group for UBC Wiki Support has been created. In addition to the wiki itself, the support group is a … Continue reading
Using the UBC Wiki as a Content Management System
The new UBC eLearning site recently went live and part of its content is being managed in the UBC Wiki. For example, the source of the eLearning toolkit page is this UBC Wiki page. The Wiki Append WordPress plug-in allows … Continue reading
Posted in Wiki News
Tagged CMS, Content Management, coop, eLearning, News, Wiki Append, Wiki Tools, Wordpress
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Intro to the UBC Wiki Screencast
Here’s a screencast giving a quick tour of the UBC Wiki: This is the first screencast that I’ve made so it’s a bit rough and I’ll be editing and tweaking it over the next few days. The final video should … Continue reading
Tagged About, coop, screencast
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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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