Communicating on a wiki

Communicating on a wiki March 10, 2006

Posted by Andy Roberts in : Wiki , trackback

How do you communicate on a mediawiki?

talking mice on a wiki

Well you can receive information on what’s being added by following the Recent Changes page.
On DARwiki that’s here

http://distributedresearch.net/wiki/index.php/Special:Recentchanges

and has an RSS feed here:
http://distributedresearch.net/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss

but the main thing is probably to understand that you can communicate
by writing on the wiki, either by editing content pages, by adding comments into ‘discussion’ pages, or on other people’s and your own ‘talk’ page. If somebody adds writing on a ‘talk’ page, then the user gets alerted next time they visit. Every registered user has a talk page, just as every content page has a potential “discussion” page.

Another alternative which is sometimes necessary is to use an email listserv in conjunction with the wiki.

The DARnet mailing list is here:

http://groups.google.com/group/DARnet

( mice graphic is from Fête de l’Internet)

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