use of open exchange in a business. try this with acadmic freedom privs and you'ld see the business strain. power still keeps the proles in line in an open info environment

Ram and Liu identified seven specific roles that Wikipedia contributors play.

Starters, for example, create sentences but seldom engage in other actions. Content justifiers create sentences and justify them with resources and links. Copy editors contribute primarily though modifying existing sentences. Some users – the all-round contributors – perform many different functions.

"We then clustered the articles based on these roles and examined the collaboration patterns within each cluster to see what kind of quality resulted," Ram said. "We found that all-round contributors dominated the best-quality entries. In the entries with the lowest quality, starters and casual contributors dominated."

To generate the best-quality entries, she says, people in many different roles must collaborate. Ram and Liu suggest that the results of this study should spark the design of software tools that can help improve quality.

identifies some of the strategies that create solid collaborative work on wikis by looking at life cycles on corporate wikis

Thorough research with a diverse group of students. The reach the usual conclusions but wisely emphasize moderation of claims. Representative anecdotes. "Through collaboration and iteration, we were able to significantly increase and improve the effectiveness of our use of wikis in writing-intensive classes. We found that although the wikis were a compelling tool for teaching writing and although students improved their confidence in and ability to write, we could not attribute either of these effects directly to our use of wikis. Instead, wikis facilitated the methods of teaching writing we already practiced, such as multiple drafts, self and peer review, and writing for audiences other than the teacher. We found wikis most useful as a tool for student collaboration and were delighted by the community building effects of this collaboration.

Entry point to SFU's John Maxwell's work.

Thinkubator: Wiki as CMS/LMS. Thinkubator starts half-way through. Covers wiki as writing space, as open architecture, and wikis used to create shared social, intellectual, and ethical space.

Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser, Richard Heigl;

Wesch. "As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able."

While well worth reading and citing, there isn't much new in this article. It's solid anthropological principles and understanding applied to teaching and learning.

Annotated list of wiki engines.

Brief look at setting up and using a personal wiki.

Good list of probably good practices - although there's no evidence of these being *best* practices.

Diagram of two edit and post models.

How to use a wiki as an aggrefator. "We are collecting links to citizen engagement projects and citizen media projects in rural Minnesota, as part of our Rural Voices project" Linking to blogs as well as flickr and delicious. Needs a twitter account.

CW presentation on using wikis in writing at Penn State. "students produce better work in a peer-reviewed environment". Find the same thing locally. Pity BSU couldn't move this direction.

A list of ideas for wiki creators, links, and comments from readers

Lines drawn from web posts.

Content problems. Community Problems, Leadership problems, Technical problems ... While WikiPatterns suits the business perspective, Meatball is still the upstream source of thinking about wikis

All articles in both groups showed a higher percentage of additions of new material compared to deletions and revisions that rearranged the text.

A page of wiki use resources, including a good list of courses using wikis for data entry, notes, writing. BSU mentioned twice.

Brief OV from CIO magazine. How wikis are managed in a corporate universe, eg "Someone has to be in charge ..."

Screen cast of how a wikipedia page is updated. Reviews how revs get done, then picks up on some themes in revising, establishing a rough methodology for studying revs

Suggestions on how to have students use wiki to create and refine class notes. Nice to see it here. I've been doing it in CWII for a year or two now.

Brief account of how to maintain a wiki as it grows: bonzai snips. Reminds me that I have to trim the Weblogs and Wikis wiki.

Kerika - graphical wiki. Free for educational use

A list

Advice for wiki content creators.

Like Time magazine: Once it's on this wiki, it's old hat. One of the drawbacks of consumer-created content is lack of timeliness.

concise video intro that helps conceptualize how a wiki works and how it's useful

18th ACM conference, Manchester, UK. Hypertext and Society thread is of special interest.

Most of the material on the site stems from Meatball Wiki.

rethinking on the fly wiki design

seeing wikis and teaching with wikis as challenging the print literacy grounding of teaching. worthy of more study

background on wikii IA

OV of potential use of blogs and wikis in sharing vital information, and where resistance to the idea lies

Angela Kille

wiki page/notes on structured v plain wikis: ie twiki v usemod

Book on Wikis in the Workplace

wiki used for human-aggregation of writing related bibs (and FAQ?)

University of York Computer Science Project
Jonathan Davies, Sept 2004

Renée Fountain

Mark Phillipson Very useful shot at classifying wikis. Solid list of wikis and bib.

use of NMPOV in writing and assessment. researchers place students under rhetorical constraints of writing in NPOV as a way of prompting negotiation and collectivist moves.

Schwartz

brief observations on wikipedia as a "first draft" of knowledge.

Summary: Understand how wikis are being used in academic, professional, and personal contexts. Contribute texts to different wiki applications. Understand how wikis enable people to collaborate online with minimal knowledge of HTML authoring conventions

Superb example of a community wiki, written with care and attention.

Marketing copy dressed up as a research case study. (see the blog pointer: http://www.socialtext.com/node/85, which tries to imply empiricism and objectivity.) Interesting for its pitch for socialtext wikis, how it presents a feature list as though they

Aggregation in discursive form. The writing is uneven, which make this a good example wiki to look at.

a ramble that leads to a few insights worth having