an agreeable wiki

healthy health sciences library intranet wiki

Darren Chase
http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~dachase/agreeable.htm

25 Oct 2006

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Our scenario

• Large library staff
• Diverse knowledge and expertise
• Wide variety of projects
• Communication is compartmentalized

Our orginal intranet was a woodpile

• Shared Windows folders on network drives
• Woodpile: we knew where all the wood was, but finding a specific piece...

wanted: fast, cheap miracle

• Collaboration
• Documentation/policies
• Troubleshooting /FAQs
• in-house control
• Web accessible
• Organization
• Ease of use

 

• Keep the woodpile: shared files (PDF, Word, Excel)
• Static HTML pages
• CMS
• Blog
• Wiki

wiki

• PhpWiki
• DokuWiki
• Kwiki
• WikiWikiWeb
• MediaWiki
• Twiki

Compare Wikis: WikiMatrix.org

 

why we *heart* Twiki:

• Easy editing
• Access control
• File locking
• Webs
• Revision control
• Plug-ins
  
  
  

• Linux
• Apache
• Perl 5.8
• Perl modules (instead of SQL/databases)
• Plug-ins
  

Implementation is done. Training and buy-in depends on staff support.

Effective support builders:

• Make it easy to join & use
• Keep it simple
• Must be "real world"
• Hands-on training
• Continuing wiki refreshment

 

the HSC Library Wiki

• AIM: secretlibrary
• e: darren.chase@stonybrook.edu
• w: secretlibrary.org
  
  This layout and CSS was created by Jessamyn West and altered by Aaron Schmidt and further altered byDarren Chase. The layout and stylesheet are available to borrow via a share and share alike creative commons license. See source code for details. The images, also, are used courtesy of a creative commons sharing license and were found in flickr.
  
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