1. 1 EPA GEO Wiki: MediaWiki and Deki Wiki OEI National Meeting December 10-12, 2008 Brand Niemann December 30, 2008

2. 2 The Why Collaboration tools are essential to reduce the large costs (time and money) of re-work every- time someone new starts a new project without access to the previous work which was not documented in a collaboration tool that integrates and preserves that work. –November 20-21, 2008, Collaboration for Better Dissemination of IT-based Innovation in Government, Leadership for a Networked World Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Participation in preparatory discussions and winner of competition. See Web 2.0 Wiki.Collaboration for Better Dissemination of IT-based Innovation in Governmentwinner of competitionWeb 2.0 Wiki

3. 3 The Why MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki. MediaWiki The MindTouch Deki Wiki is a “fork” from the MediaWiki that started several years ago when those in the MediaWiki Developer Community felt there should be both an easier to use and a more powerful Wiki. –The result is that MindTouch now refers to their product as a Web Services Platform with a Wiki interface and declares that they are the world's most popular open source enterprise collaboration and wiki software.MindTouch

4. 4 Google: EPA GEOSS December 12, 2008

5. 5 Google: EPA GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems | US EPA –http://www.epa.gov/geoss/http://www.epa.gov/geoss/ Fact Sheet: EPA's Advanced Monitoring Initiative Supports GEOSS –http://www.epa.gov/geoss/ami/http://www.epa.gov/geoss/ami/ EPA GEOSS Indicators Approach – PugetSoundMashup –http://pugetsound.epageo.org/index.php5?title=EPA_GEOSS_Indicators _Approachhttp://pugetsound.epageo.org/index.php5?title=EPA_GEOSS_Indicators _Approach An Overview of Available Environmental Data for Air –http://canamglass.org/low/files/FoleyGEOSS&GLOSGrandIsland27Mar0 7.pdfhttp://canamglass.org/low/files/FoleyGEOSS&GLOSGrandIsland27Mar0 7.pdf Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) –http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/2006-06-20/2006-06- 21/sfalke06212006.ppthttp://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/2006-06-20/2006-06- 21/sfalke06212006.ppt EPA’s Role in the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) –http://eea.eionet.europa.eu/Public/irc/envirowindows/jad/library?l=/ecoin formatics_indicator/berkely_october/ecoinfromaticspresgeossp/_EN_1.0 _&a=dhttp://eea.eionet.europa.eu/Public/irc/envirowindows/jad/library?l=/ecoin formatics_indicator/berkely_october/ecoinfromaticspresgeossp/_EN_1.0 _&a=d December 12, 2008

6. 6 Google: https://adelie.sraprod.com/epageowiki/index.php/Main_Page

7. 7 EPA GEO MediaWiki https://adelie.sraprod.com/epageowiki/index.php/Main_Page

8. 8 Instructions URL: –https://adelie.sraprod.com/epageowiki/index.php/Main _Page On the left hand navigation bar, click on the help desk. Once on the helpdesk page you will find a section titled "Request a new user account" Click on the mail link to the GEOSS wiki help desk and send them your name and email address. They will email you a user name and password.

9. 9 Instructions Use Policy: The GEOSS Knowledgebase, using MediaWiki software, is a pilot project of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to encourage collaboration and accelerate the pace of collective learning among scientists and researchers interested in global earth observations, modeling, analysis, and ecosystem service levels. The content within this knowledgebase is for internal EPA employee use only and should not be cited, disclosed, or disseminated external to EPA without the expressed written permission of the author. Your User ID and password are confidential and intended only to be used by the employee who has been issued the credential.

10. 10 EPA GEO Login https://adelie.sraprod.com/epageowiki/index.php/Main_Page

11. 11 EPA GEO Help https://adelie.sraprod.com/epageowiki/index.php/Help:Contents

12. 12 EPA GEO Steps 1. Review the Wiki Challenges and Requirements piece on the Home Page of the wiki that addresses concerns and requirements needs. This outlines many of the issues we ran into using the Mediawiki 2. Provide a brief 1-2 pager of their plan to include (concise): –Background –Need for change (Mediawiki doesn't work well, this product does for the following new and improved features) –Pilot Details (process steps, how will the migration work) –Pilot Schedule 3. Provide ESRP with a demo of how to use Deki Wiki (apparently it's user friendly and requires no training). 4. A comparison chart of Deki Wiki, Mediawiki, and Lotus Quickr Source: Susan Lundquist, Email, December 3, 2008

13. 13 Approach 1. Straight conversion of Mediawiki to Deki Wiki: –Zip of MySQL dump and Zip of images directory See Enviro-Central and Watershed Central 2. “Garden” Mediawiki first then convert like 1. –A WikiGardener is someone who often spends time attending to the quality, flow, and overall polish of content on a wiki. 3. “Refactor” Mediawiki into the Deki Wiki: –The process of changing a wiki to make it amenable to change, improve its readability, or simplify its structure, while preserving its existing functionality, but also enhancing its functionality. See Wikipedia: Code RefactoringCode Refactoring

14. 14 Tutorial Overview 1: Decide on Name 2: Register Name 3: Login 4: Set Preferences 5: Control Panel 6: Design Home Page 7: Create Subtopics 8: Repurpose Word and Web Content Into Wiki 9: Attach Files 10: Insert Images and Links 11: Create Web Log (Blog) 12: Set Security 13: Monitor Users 14: Revise/Reorganize

15. 15 Deki Wiki Express http://www.mindtouch.com/Products/Deki_Express

16. 16 Deki Wiki Express: Login http://www.wik.is/success/?sitename=epageoss

17. 17 Deki Wiki Express: Welcome http://epageoss.wik.is/Welcome

18. 18 Deki Wiki Express: Set Password http://epageoss.wik.is/Welcome

19. 19 Deki Wiki Express: Set Password Private Email

20. 20 Deki Wiki Express : Set Password http://epageoss.wik.is/Special:Preferences

21. 21 Deki Wiki Express: Control Panel http://epageoss.wik.is/Adminhttp://epageoss.wik.is/Admin:

22. 22 Deki Wiki Express: Visual Appearance http://epageoss.wik.is/Admin:Styles

23. 23 Deki Wiki Express: Home Page http://epageoss.wik.is/

24. 24 Deki Wiki Express: Restrict Access http://epageoss.wik.is/

25. 25 Deki Wiki Express: Restrict Access Public: everybody can view and edit. Semi-Public: everybody can view, but only selected users can edit. Private: only selected users can view and edit this page. Note: Deki Wiki has one of the most advanced permission systems available. Deki Wiki administrators can make wikis public or private, anonymous or not. There is user groups support. Users can permission entire hierarchies to create private or non-editable workspaces or permission single pages.

26. 26 Deki Wiki Express: Add Web Page http://www.epa.gov/geoss/

27. 27 Deki Wiki Express: Add Web Page http://epageoss.wik.is/Global_Earth_Observation_System_of_Systems_(GEOSS)

28. 28 Deki Wiki Express: Add Wiki Page https://adelie.sraprod.com/epageowiki/index.php/Future_Midwestern_Landscapes_Study_Implementation_Plan

29. 29 Deki Wiki Express: Add Wiki Page http://epageoss.wik.is/Future_Midwestern_Landscapes_Study_Implementation_Plan

30. 30 Deki Wiki Express: Attach Files http://epageoss.wik.is/Future_Midwestern_Landscapes_Study_Implementation_Plan

31. 31 Deki Wiki Express: Attach Files http://epageoss.wik.is/Future_Midwestern_Landscapes_Study_Implementation_Plan

32. 32 Deki Wiki Express: Templates http://epageoss.wik.is/Template:Questions_for_Peer_Review_of_Implementation_Plan_for_Future_Midwestern_Landscapes_Study

33. 33 Deki Wiki Express: Insert Links http://epageoss.wik.is/Future_Midwestern_Landscapes_Study_Implementation_Plan

34. 34 Deki Wiki Express: Insert Links http://epageoss.wik.is/Future_Midwestern_Landscapes_Study_Implementation_Plan

35. 35 Deki Wiki Express: Insert Images http://epageoss.wik.is/Future_Midwestern_Landscapes_Study_Implementation_Plan

36. 36 Deki Wiki Express: Insert Images https://adelie.sraprod.com/epageowiki/index.php/Image:Integrated_Model_hierarchical_060108_lores.jpg

37. 37 Deki Wiki Express: Insert Images http://epageoss.wik.is/Future_Midwestern_Landscapes_Study_Implementation_Plan/3_Approach/3.3_Conceptual_Model

38. 38 MindTouch Deki Wiki Features Content Creation: –An editing experience similar to what you would expect from modern word processor applications. Content Management: –Hierarchical page organization: Organize content in an intuitive hierarchical manner Search: –Advanced search: User can view all results or only specific subsets of the result set Attachments: –Users can attach any file or image to any page. Versioning and Reversion: –Page versioning: Every page retains a complete history of changes.

39. 39 MindTouch Deki's Software Architecture http://wiki.mindtouch.com/MindTouch_Deki/Features/Architecture

40. 40 MindTouch Deki's Software Architecture http://wiki.mindtouch.com/MindTouch_Deki/Features/Architecture

41. 41 MindTouch Deki Wiki Features Access Control: –Restrict page editing, Restrict page viewing, Restrict hierarchies Alerts and Notifications: –Watch list Feeds: Every user can create a list of pages to watch. Application Administration: –Site administration: Quickly and easily manage multiple users and users' status Miscellaneous: –Adherence to standards: All content is stored in XML.

42. 42 MindTouch Deki Wiki Best Practices Example The Mindtouch Deki Wiki is powering the TOPSAN protein database project which is a Wiki for scientists to collaborate around protein research. When finished, the TOPSAN site is expected to have 700,000 Wiki pages. –See http://www.topsan.orghttp://www.topsan.org

43. 43 MindTouch Deki Wiki Best Practices Example

44. 44 Challenges Our summarization (two pages of Challenges): –Security and privacy (Restrict Access) –Cultural (incentives, value, barriers, etc.) See Wikipatterns: –http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/About?s howComments=falsehttp://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/About?s howComments=false –Templates (Tools) –Output (Print Page and MySQL Database) https://adelie.sraprod.com/epageowiki/index.php/Challenges_With_Using_Wiki_Technology

45. 45 Challenges Deki Wiki Menu: –My Page –Recent Changes –Tools: Watched Pages Contributions RSS Feeds Templates Sitemap Popular Pages –Help https://adelie.sraprod.com/epageowiki/index.php/Challenges_With_Using_Wiki_Technology

46. 46 Challenges Deki Wiki Menu: –Edit Page –New Page –Print Page (WYSIWYG and PDF) –More: Watch Attach File or Image Restrict Access Move Delete Tag Email Link Set Page Properties Talk About Page https://adelie.sraprod.com/epageowiki/index.php/Challenges_With_Using_Wiki_Technology

47. 47 Requirements Our summarization (eight pages of Requirements): –Needs more structure and metadata –Needs project/portfolio management –Needs support for roles –Needs to work with the Portal and ESC –Needs search of a wide-range of information types –Needs support for large files –Needs a site map –And the list goes on… We are prepared to discuss and demonstrate how the Deki Wiki address these requirements. https://adelie.sraprod.com/epageowiki/index.php/Requirements_Annotated_Outline

48. 48 MindTouch Enterprise: Tips http://envirocentral.mindtouch.com/Tips

49. 49 MindTouch Enterprise: Control Panel http://envirocentral.mindtouch.com/deki-cp/index.php