Wikis for Dummies

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Create content, link pages and webs, and grow your wiki.

Set up your own wiki for personal or business use.

So you want to wiki? This friendly guide gets you up and running in the wiki world in no time, from creating and editing wiki pages and going public to handling maintenance, promotion, and project management. You'll see how to handle the hurdles of shared authorship, use structured wiki applications, and prepare for the wikis of the future.

  • Create your first hosted wiki
  • Invite others to your wiki
  • Add images, video, and other widgets
  • Use a wiki in your business
  • Choose your wiki engine
  • Secure your wiki
Table of Contents: 

Foreword

Introduction

Part I: Introducing Wikis

Chapter 1: Understanding Wikis: From Ward's Brain to Your Browser
Chapter 2: Contributing Content to a Wiki
Chapter 3: The Thousand Problem-Solving Faces of Wikis
Chapter 4: Using and Improving the 800-pound Gorilla of Wikis: Wikipedia

Part II: Making Your Own Wiki

Chapter 5: Finding a Hosted Home for Your Wiki
Chapter 6: Creating Content for Your Wiki
Chapter 7: Linking, Categorizing, and Tagging Wiki Pages
Chapter 8: The Four Dimensions of Wiki Design

Part III: Promoting, Managing, and Improving Your Wiki

Chapter 9: Attracting Users to Your Wiki
Chapter 10: Choosing an Installed Wiki Engine
Chapter 11: Getting Your Wiki Engine Up and Running
Chapter 12: Managing Wikis
Chapter 13: Protecting Your Wiki
Chapter 14: Creating Applications Using Structured Wikis

Part IV: The Part of Tens

Chapter 15: Ten Essential Wiki Attitudes
Chapter 16: Ten Roles People Play When Using Wikis
Chapter 17: Ten Ways How Wikis Work at the Office
Chapter 18: Ten Innovative Wikis

Index

Author(s): 
Dan Woods, Peter Thoeny
Publication Date: 
July 2007
Publisher: 
For Dummies
Pages: 
336
Language: 
English
ISBN: 
978-0470043998
Cover Type: 
Hardcover
About the Authors: 

Dan Woods

Dan Woods, CTO and Editor of Evolved Media, has a background in technology and journalism. Dan has written 10 books about technology-related topics, including Mashup Corporations, Wikis for Dummies, Open Source for the Enterprise, and Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation. Evolved Media, which Dan founded in 2002, creates books, wikis, white papers, training courses, and documentation to explain the value and workings of technology.

Peter Thoeny

Peter Thoeny is the founder of TWiki and has managed the open-sourced TWiki.org project for the last nine years. Peter invented the concept of structured wikis - where free form wiki content can be structured with tailored wiki applications.He is a recognized thought-leader in wikis and social software, featured in numerous articles and technology conferences including Linux World, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal and more. A software developer with over 20 years experience, Peter specializes in enterprise collaboration, software architecture, user interface design and web technology.

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