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• Author/Creator:Mader, Stewart.
  
• Title:Wikipatterns : a practical guide to improving productivity and collaboration in your organization / Stewart Mader.
  
• ISBN:9780470223628
  0470223626
  
• Published/Created:Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley Pub., 2007, ©2008.
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxv, 167 pages) : illustrations
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Notes:Title from resource description page (viewed June 5, 2009).
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• Summary: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: it 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.
  
• Variant and related titles:Wiki patterns
  O'Reilly Safari. OCLC KB.
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Foreword / Ward Cunningham -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Grassroots is best. Case study : LeapFrog -- Chapter 2. Your wiki isn't (necessarily) Wikipedia. Case study : Johns Hopkins University -- Chapter 3. What's five minutes really worth? Case study : Sun Microsystems -- Chapter 4. 11 steps to a successful wiki pilot. Case study : Red Ant -- Case study : a conversation with a wikichampion : Jude Higdon -- Chapter 5. Drive large-scale adoption. Case study : JavaPolis -- Case study: a conversation with a wikichampion : Jeff Calado -- Chapter 6. Prevent (or minimize) obstacles. Case study : Kerrydale Street -- Inspirational bull**** -- Case study : Consititution Day -- Case study : Peter Higgs : using a wiki in research -- Appendix. Questions and answers -- Index.
  
• Subjects:Wikis (Computer science)
  wikis.
  Wikis (Computer science)
  Wikis (Computer science)