[Pmwiki-users] Wiki best practices, good implementations, good sites

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:02:14PM -0900, Chris Lott wrote:
> Lloyd Budd wrote:
> 
> I basically have three potential audiences in mind:
> 
> 1. Educators who want to facilitate collaborative work in the classroom

Here are some that I'm aware of:

   http://www.tamucc.edu/wiki and http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/wiki  -- 
   especially take a look at the Main.AllRecentChanges pages on the 
   sites to see how active these wikis are.  I just checked and it 
   presently has over 22,000 pages in the wiki.  Essentially each 
   student in the writing programs is required to use the wiki to 
   maintain a portfolio page and can browse/comment on other 
   students' pages.  In addition, the wikis are being used by instructors,
   committees, and instructors for maintaining course materials and
   promoting interactions between students.  

   Also, many of our student organizations are actively using the 
   wiki for their web sites---
      http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/wiki/CSClub
      http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/wiki/GeologyClub
      http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/wiki/StudentNursingAssociation

> 2. Researchers who want to create collaborative knowledge spaces (I will 
> be talking about RSS, Furl, del.icio.us, and weblogging in general as well)

   http://spfwiki.infinitepenguins.net/wiki
   http://lighthouse.tamucc.edu/DNRNotes

> 3. Staff and developers who are looking for ways to enhance their 
> internal collaboration and find new ways for dealing with project 
> management and document collaboration.

   http://www.edu-coop.org/
   http://lighthouse.tamucc.edu/DNRNotes
   http://www.tamucc.edu/wiki/FRC
   http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/wiki/MathWiki
   http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/wiki/TAMUCCCTM

> 4. With time and involvement, what can a good wiki look like?

   http://www.concretestreet.net/
   http://www.thunderdata.com/
   http://tutorial.smartworkspaces.com/
   http://wiki.lianza.org.nz/

> I haven't found good (i.e. active, live, current) examples that address 
> #1 and #3 above. I suspect that #3 are mostly behind firewalls and on 
> intranets. I am trying to "sell" and educate here :)

...mostly on intranets and not always advertised to the public.  But
PmWiki gets used for a lot of project management and collaboration stuff.
Try doing a Google search for

   pmwiki -site:pmichaud.com -site:tamucc.edu

and see what you get.  :-)

BTW, you've probably already read it, but "The Wiki Way" is an excellent
book, has some excellent background/ideas,  and is the book that got
me started on wikis.
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020171499X/ref=nosim/pmichaudcom-20

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