Creating a wiki using Wikispaces Skills edit display

Creating a wiki using Wikispaces Skills: edit, display the history of, discuss, and track changes to a page, wiki technique tips Concepts: Wiki operations This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. 0 License.

Where does this topic fit? • Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications • Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills

The first page, called Home http: //wikioperations. wikispaces. com/

The second page, called Motto

Create and name your wiki http: //www. wikispaces. com

A typical wiki screen layout Page viewing and editing area

First draft with two errors

The editor

Correct the errors and click Save

The corrected page

Discussing the page

The page revision history

Compare pages

Change notification

Create a new page

Name the new page

Edit the new page

Save the new page

The starting home page

Wiki administration

The freemium business model

Summary Page viewing and editing area

Self study questions Every wiki service provides five operations. Without looking back, do you recall them? What are three steps in editing a page? Is a wiki a one-many medium? Wikipedia is useful, but can you find other useful wikis on the Web?

Resources Introduction to Wikispaces (2 m 1 s): http: //www. wikispaces. com/content/wiki-tour Wikis in Plain English (3 m 40 s) http: //commoncraft. com/video-wikis-plain-english The demonstration wiki used in this presentation: http: //wikioperations. wikispaces. com/ Wikispaces help wiki, including videos: https: //help. wikispaces. com/ The Hawaiian busses that gave wikis their name: http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Wiki_Shuttle