Wikis : Information, communities, and feedback loops.
Wikis are cool.
People who wiki are part of a community
People who are part of a community make a difference
If you don’t have much information to process,
don’t have a community, or don’t want others to
make a difference, you don’t need a wiki.
(but they’re still cool)
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Wikis enable people to cooperate to build new information and push boundaries.
Wikis are changing our world
Implementations include Mediawiki, Twiki, Socialtext.
Wiki is Hawaiian for fast; keeping up with fast things is what this talk is about
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Communication:
Recentchanges.
Talk pages for every article.
Special community pages; other community baggage (Mailing lists,
IM, Skype, etc.)
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Soft Security and tradeoffs.
Robots and vandals. Mechanisms, tradeoffs.
Troublemakers and trolls. Community mechanisms, tradeoffs.
Advantages to not being too hard : exponential growth varies on the time to make an edit. 95% of users are good.
Slowing down edits; imposing delays.
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The unexpected
Having no structure means having to make all structure; almost all parts of the site/km can be changed. Slower to do known things, but faster to do unknown things. many unknown things are simply impossible with other tools (separate sidebars, page-changing templates and other inclusions, extended namespaces for disambiguation as meta-content grows)