{"id":864,"date":"2008-09-29T05:23:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T09:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=864"},"modified":"2008-09-30T21:16:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T01:16:39","slug":"workplace-wikis-and-how-wiki-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/09\/29\/workplace-wikis-and-how-wiki-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Workplace wikis and how Wiki works"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that How Wikipedia Works<\/a><\/em> has come out, it is becoming easier to promote wikis at work as a model for better version control<\/strong> of shared<\/strong> knowledge.\u00a0 At OLPC this isn’t a terribly hard problem, but it is still a concern : people with no experience with History or universal talk pages have a hard time mapping their ideas of a quick and simple conversation space onto this sort or more structured knowledge center.\u00a0 Conversations about how to foster better sharing of documents and ideas often stumble on very different understandings of what Wikipedia itself<\/strong> is, and how it is used, since the project’s fame make it a proxy for the very concept of Wikis.<\/p>\n

An assortment of wiki-way<\/strong><\/a> authors should update a canonical “How Wiki Works<\/em>” book, and publish it under a free license — taking people back to the foundational philosophies and rules of thumb that gave us this vastly valuable cultural shift.\u00a0 Wikis remain one of the simplest, and most effective, solutions to a large set of problems – what makes them successful is a philosophy of use and the realization of a new set of norms.\u00a0 Trying to design a set of tools to accomodate the steps in collaboration has been done many times before and since, never with such impact.<\/p>\n

I’d love to see that text developed now, to supplement the online version of HWW<\/em>.\u00a0 I bet Ward<\/strong> and Bo<\/strong> and friends<\/a> have some good<\/a> textual material<\/a> (hat tip to Mark Dilley) on their cutting room floors to seed such a project.\u00a0 Or perhaps there is a already new book in the works \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 At any rate, people need to be reminded that the yeast of massively parallel peer production is behavioral change, not tool invention.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Perhaps the AboutUs wiki is a good place to have some of these discussions, considering the depth of reflection on this school of thought there…<\/p>\n

[PS – hey, Addison-Wesley<\/strong>, how come The Wiki Way<\/em> is classified simply under ‘Books’?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that How Wikipedia Works has come out, it is becoming easier to promote wikis at work as a model for better version control of shared knowledge.\u00a0 At OLPC this isn’t a terribly hard problem, but it is still a concern : people with no experience with History or universal talk pages have a hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-dW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}