Product Description

• This book provides practical, proven advice for encouraging adoption of your wiki project and growing it into a useful collaboration tool or vibrant online community
• Gives wiki users a toolbox of thriving wiki patterns, which enable newcomers to avoid making common mistakes or fumbling around for the solutions to the same problems as their predecessors
• Explains the major stages of wiki adoption and explores patterns that apply to each stage
• Presents concrete, proven examples of techniques that have helped people grow vibrant collaborative communities and change the way they work for the better
• Reviews the overall process, including setting up initial content, encouraging people to contribute, dealing with disruptive elements, fixing typos and broken links, making sure pages are in their correct categories, and more

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48391 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 167 pages

From the Back Cover
Plant and Grow a Successful Wiki.

A combination of a web page and a Word document, a wiki is a tool that's simple like email but powerful enough to reduce your cluttered inbox and busy meeting schedule. Wikipatterns will help you learn how to build a 21st-century tool for collaboration, whether your team is in the same office or split among offices around the world. Wikis can transform business collaboration, and you'll learn the ins and outs of making the most of this enduring collaboration tool. This book answers questions like:

• What is a wiki?
• How does an organization's wiki differ from Wikipedia?
• How do I make a case for using a wiki?
• What's the best way to get started?
• How do wikis change an organization's culture?
• How do wikis "fit" with other collaboration tools?
• What are the patterns of use and behavior that positively and negatively affect the wiki?
• How do I encourage participation and make the wiki "stick" as an idea and a tool?

About wikipatterns.com
Wikipatterns.com is a toolbox of ideas and strategies for anyone looking to build a successful wiki. It's also a wiki, which means you can help build the information based on your experiences!

About the Author
Stewart Mader is Wiki Evangelist for Atlassian Software Systems, makers of the award-winning and widely used Confluence wiki software. Stewart has worked with business, academic, and non-profit organizations to grow vibrant collaborative communities. He also publishes Blog on Wiki Patterns (www.ikiw.org), and recently wrote an online book on how the wiki is transforming education and research.

Customer Reviews

Good Concept
Wikipatterns is a good book, but not a great one. It did help me clarify a lot of my doubt regarding the wiki technology and the book has a lot of case studies.
There are many patterns discussed in the book and also on the website. Choosing the right pattern would still be complicated task even after reading this book.

No content
Don't bother buying this one; a minute skimming in the book store is all you need to extract what little content there is here. This book is just a collection of too-long generalities and opinions that don't add up to much. I worry that anyone who finds this book useful could have responsibility for setting up a wiki.

Wikipatterns
I thought this was a great book for understanding the power of Web 2.0 and use of Wiki's