WIKIS

VANAM SHIVA
KUMAR
MLISC(2013-14)

What is a Wiki ?
A Wiki is a website which
allows User to
create,add,edit,or remove.
Simply A Wiki is an easy-touse free webpage that
multiple people can edit.
Best known wiki is wikipedia.

What does wiki mean?

Wiki is a Hawaiian word which
means fast or quick,or to
hasten.

How the wiki got its

name?

Wiki-wiki is the name of the bus line

in the Honolulu international Airport.

History of wiki
The first wiki was created by
Ward Cunningham.
He started creating wikiwikiweb in
1994
He planned it to create and share
ideas in a quick way.
Wards wiki is still active today.

Why use a wiki ?

Easy to learn- no HTML required
Easy to share knowledge
Easy way to collaborate across borders
Ability to revert back to old versions
Ability to track whos done what&where
Fostering collaboration among friends
and/or colleagues
Peer editing and writing

Characteristics of wiki
Simple hypertext format
Openness and accessibility
encourages participation
Changeable ownership
Unending content
Easy linking from one page to
another
Not only a contributor edit their own
work,but also edit the work of others

Types of wikis
There are millions of
wikis available to
users on the web
ranging in a wide
variety of
subjects,topics and
information

What can you do with a wiki

?
Easily create and edit
webpages,including styled
text,hyperlinks,pictures,audio,video,e
tc.,
Easy for a group to collabarate on
creating online documents.

Advantages
Any one can edit
No HTML required
Changes are immediate
Pages and links are instant & automatic
No one knows everything, but every one
knows something
Use web standards
People can store their
folders,pictures,their discussion

Disadvantages
Any one can edit
Misinformation may not get fixed
immediately
Unfamiliar style(no HTML)

Wikis for libraries

Simply as a library webpage/site
Create,edit&provide free content/articles for research
For sharing ideas
Provide information about reference books,
databases,websites,etc
Help for research by recommending
articles,websites,etc
Answering reference questions(add/change
answers,FAQ)
Online group study
Multimedia information

Examples of wikis
The largest and most talked about wiki on the
Internet is Wikipedia
It free online encyclopedia with over 2 million articles in english
on a variety of topics
25 languages
2 million entries
Five times more popular than Google news ,yahoo news or
BBC(hit wise)

Wiki News
wikiBooks
Wikispaces
Pbwiki
Wikidot
Mediawiki,etc,.

Examples of libray wikis

LIS wiki
Library success
EDCO wiki

THANK
YOU