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Recently Edited Pages on the UBC Wiki- Course:CONS200/2025WT2/The Role of Megafauna in Ecosystem Health and Stability: History and Case Studies in British Columbia, Canada February 15, 2025 CruzChang
- Course:MEDG550/Student Activities/Li-Fraumeni Syndrome February 15, 2025 LaurenStadel
- Medg550/Student Activities/Cystic Fibrosis February 15, 2025 AparnaUdiaver
- Course:MEDG550/Student Activities/Li-Fraumeni Syndrome February 15, 2025 LaurenStadel
- Medg550/Student Activities/Cystic Fibrosis February 15, 2025 AparnaUdiaver
Author Archives: Will (WikiAdmin)
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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The Course: Conundrum
The UBC Wiki is organized into a couple of different namespaces. Two of the major ones are the root space (found at wiki.ubc.ca) and the Course space (wiki.ubc.ca/Course). The purpose of these spaces is to help organize the wiki by … Continue reading
Posted in Purpose, Wiki Organization
Tagged coop, Course:, moving articles, namespaces, organization, renaming
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Growing the UBC Wiki
Welcome to the new Wiki Gardener blog. A wiki gardener is someone who helps a wiki grow and thrive. As Sam Aparicio on the Social Text site explains: One of the great things about a wiki is the way structure … Continue reading
Looking for Help (in all the wrong namespaces)
I decided that a good first place to start with the wiki gardening project was to review the help documentation. I first looked at what currently existed on the wiki and then I moved some articles over from the public … Continue reading
Tagged Categories, coop, help, weeding
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