1. Skills: none Concepts: wiki examples and definition, operations, the wiki motto, wiki motivation and history, client- server applications This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. What is a wiki?

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

3. Watch Wikis in Plain English (3m 40s) http://commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

4. Wikipedia.org

5. A wiki is a web site with a twist Any authorized user can view and edit it

6. How is a wiki different from a regular Web site? 2+2=4 uglysimplecollaborative

7. Page viewing and editing area A typical wiki screen layout

8. Navigation pane Page viewing and editing area Select operation to perform Simplified screen layout

9. Edit Save The page you are editing Editing a page

10. The wiki motto Improve the wiki with every edit.

11. Client and server Client Server

12. Ward Cunningham and the first wiki

13. Summary

14. Self-study questions 1.We mentioned three differences between a wiki and a regular Web site – do you recall them? 2.We covered five operations common to all wikis – do you recall them? 3.What is the wiki motto? 4.Why did Ward Cunningham invent the wiki? 5.Can you find examples of useful wikis on the Web? 6.What could you use a wiki for at school, work or home? 7.Can you think of other examples of client-server programs? 8.Make a wire frame diagram for the user interface of a program you commonly use.

15. Resources Wikis in Plain English (3m 40s) http://commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english How college students use Wikipedia: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/arti cle/view/2830/2476 Evaluation of Wikipedia: http://delicious.com/lpress/wikieval Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham The first Wiki, invented to discuss programming technique: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki