Wiki Wednesday
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ANDY ROBERTS Notes for a short talk at London Wiki Wednesday, Feb 21 2007
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What's happened in 12 months?
- public wikis, higher profile, free wiki farms with wysiwyg etc : eg pbwiki wikispaces jotspot socialtext wikia editthis etc WikiIndex
So you don't need the level of expertise previously required to start up a new wiki. Hence 'everyone can have their own wiki' and talking about 'blogs and wikis' in the same breath.
- amongst second wave adopters, Wikipedia is being referred to by an abbreviated proper name: "Wiki"
ukcider.co.uk
- http://ukcider.co.uk
- Online pub guide and festival events run themselves. login to edit main page and to create new pages, otherwise Open Edit. Not just database but "know how" on the cider makers FAQ and
blog on wiki - cider by Rosie Main discussion remains on listserv - summaries
DAR wiki - distributedresearch.net/wiki
- Taxonomy from Folksonomy - using the mediawiki "categories" as tags emergent-coding-analysis-facilitated-by-mediawiki
- Collaboration focussed on specific pages eg wiki facilitation and homeworking
Pajamanation.com
Pajamanation® is a reverse-auction electronic market place for microjobs for home workers (small jobs outsourced).
Freelancers : What kind of skilled online jobs could you go after?
Managers : What kind of work could you get done more quickly and efficently by outsourcing through the global microjobs marketplace?
UK country manager, Andy Roberts: info@pajamanation.co.uk:
Contact
Andy Roberts email: aroberts@gmail.com blog: http://distributedresearch.net//blog
