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Taxocop - TaxoTools. Leinonen. Nellie Deutsch. Educationalwikis - Examples of educational wikis. AllMyWikis - Information Literacy. Free and Pro Wiki Hosting: Wikidot Documentation & Help page. Wikifier. Wiki communities for everyone! Wiki Lists - A List of Reference Wikis - Wiki Reference. Reference wikis include encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations, how-to articles, tax almanacs and language reference guides.

Wiki Lists - A List of Reference Wikis - Wiki Reference

Easy access to information that is of immediate use makes these wikis an invaluable tool and among the most popular wikis in the world. 1911 Encyclopedia A community project to restore the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. About Us A wiki focusing on information about people, organizations and companies. Archiplanet An architecture wiki focusing on information about famous or interesting buildings around the world.

Genealogy Wikia A wiki focused on genealogy with articles on ancestors with links to where and how they lived. Linkwiki A language-oriented wiki focused on collaboration between language experts. Source Watch A wiki focused on connecting information to its sources. 21centuryedtech - home. Wikipedia - Mercantilism. Library - The official blog of PBworks. We’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to drive adoption of your PBwiki in your organization.

Library - The official blog of PBworks

Below, I’m including a 5-minute video on tips for successful adoption, plus some new tools we’ve created to make it easy for you to share PBwiki with your co-workers, students, or friends. Wiki Adoption from PBwikiWebinars on Vimeo. Video Shortcuts0:22 — What to expect when you deploy your wiki0:58 — Three Steps to Success - Starting with a core team - Put yourself in your users’ shoes - Weave your wiki into others’ workflow1:14 — Go bottom up and horizontal! Need more resources? Category:Wiki with 101 to 200 pages. MeatballWiki. Once you are comfortable, sign our guestbook, RecentVisitors, with your real name and then create your very own homepage.

MeatballWiki

If this concept seems crazy, see WhyWikiWorks and WikiFaq. [Hipnoterapi Surabaya] Before you join, there are three major policies you must agree to: JoshuaRodd -- Fri Mar 9 20:56:00 2012 UTC I just removed absurdly large amounts of spam from the front page. Someone needs to be paying closer attention. DavidMeyer -- Thu Sep 21 09:06:25 2011 UTC When I try to add the following entry to RecentVisitors: '''21 September 2011''' -- DavidMeyer. ... the edition gets rejected with the following message: You have triggered the spam filter. I also get the same error when I remove the WikiLink?

Is there a bug in the spam filter, or has it be set extra-sensitive to deal with spammers? Blog » Blog Archive » How Non-Profits Are Using Wikis. This month, we bring you some great examples of how non-profits are using wikis.

Blog » Blog Archive » How Non-Profits Are Using Wikis

Read on to see how wikis help these organizations reach out to their communities, manage volunteers, create resources, and more. CARE is a global non-profit working to fight poverty. Private Label - Non-Profit. You work hard enough.Let us make collaboration easy.

Private Label - Non-Profit

Wikispaces Private Label for Nonprofits is a secure, dedicated wiki environment with central administration, Single Sign-On, flexible security options, and all the wikis you’ll ever need. Wikis in the workplace: a practical introduction - Ars Technica. When times get tough and belts get tight, one of the first things many companies do is begin casting about for ways increase efficiency and raise per-worker productivity.

Wikis in the workplace: a practical introduction - Ars Technica

Many businesses turn to free and open-source tools to meet these needs, and at some point in such discussions someone invariably suggests a wiki for some internal project. But the wiki idea often gets rejected soon after it's floated, typically because wikis are perceived to be insecure, inaccurate, or difficult to use; either that, or someone in the discussion has gone the wiki route before, only to see their wiki languish from lack of interest and participation.

These perceptions and experiences that lead companies to reject wikis are rooted in a common problem: the vast majority of the public has formed 100 percent of their expectations about what a wiki can and should be based on the single example of Wikipedia. Wikis and communities: Webworks.com The accuracy issue: Geometrica. Research/Social Research Collaborations. This page is a space to discuss collaborative scholarship, social research and writing about various aspects of the free culture movement, especially Wikimania projects (though related topics are very welcome).

Research/Social Research Collaborations

On August 6, at lunch on the last day of Wikimania 2006, eight doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences, from around the world (Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Taiwan, U.S. --Georgia, Boston, Chicago), discussed our research and work on Wiki projects. We found we clearly share common interests and the desire to collaborate somehow. We came up with various ways to collaborate.

While a group of graduate students originated the following, we welcome other grad students, professors, independent researchers, undergraduates, and interested lay persons (and techies!!!) Here are some of our ideas. Collaborations[edit] Various collaborative projects are mentioned on the Research page, such as: the General User Survey. Wikimedia[edit] Independent Research[edit] Participants[edit] Learning Community Wikis: Open Community.

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