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Wiki

Web Collaboration

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Anja Ebersbach

    1. Regensburg, Germany

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  2. Markus Glaser

    1. Regensburg, Germany

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  3. Richard Heigl

    1. Regensburg, Germany

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  4. Alexander Warta

    1. Stuttgart, Germany

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  • Offers a guide to the application of Wikis
  • Practice-oriented presentation with directly applicable tools
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
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  2. Preface

    1. Preface

      Pages 1-8

  3. Wiki!?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. The Wiki Concept

      Pages 11-34

  4. Our First Wiki: MediaWiki

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. The Installation

      Pages 37-48

    3. First Steps

      Pages 49-56

    4. The Core Functions of MediaWiki

      Pages 57-67

    5. Formatting

      Pages 69-80

    6. Multi-Page Structures

      Pages 81-105

    7. Components: the Function Pages

      Pages 107-122

    8. Administration

      Pages 123-140

    9. Extensions

      Pages 141-149

    10. Life in MediaWiki

      Pages 151-161

  5. TWiki, the Jack of all Trades

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Installing TWiki

      Pages 165-178

    3. Working with TWiki

      Pages 179-192

    4. Formatting in TWiki

      Pages 193-207

    5. Searching in TWiki

      Pages 209-220

    6. Structured Data with Forms

      Pages 221-229
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About this book

A book about wikis! That’s what people need. Because with wiki technology, lots of people can freely work - gether – they can even generate very large works in the intellectual realm. See for yourself: Today, we still marvel at our massive church buildings, each c- structed over a period of centuries, requiring an immense amount of labor and often bearing the cultural stamp of all of the epochs during which it was created. Someone just has to begin by placing stone upon stone and motivating the people nearby to help out a bit. In places where such enthusiastic fellow men and women lend a hand and donate materials, great things can emerge. And where they are absent? Either scant ruins remain, or the iron will of a pharaoh is required, an army of drivers, the sweat of a people and a mountain of gold. Great things can also be created in that way – take the Py- mids: a clear concept, no blending of styles, pure will. Those are two very different paths. The one entails passionate people devotedly building something together for the common good; the other: A single will manages a variety of resources to achieve a set goal. Wikis are tools with which lots of people with a minimum of - ganization, planning, money and time can create something together and communicate with each other from several scattered computers or over the Internet.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Regensburg, Germany

    Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser, Richard Heigl

  • Stuttgart, Germany

    Alexander Warta

About the authors

Anja Ebersbach is an information scientist. She is a university and technical college instructor, and is also active as a freelance IT trainer. She is working on her dissertation on the topic of "Wikis as Tools of Scientific Work."

Markus Glaser, also an information scientist, primarily works as a web and application programmer, where he specializes in MediaWiki and TWiki systems.

Dr. Richard Heigl, a historian, works as a freelance instructor, IT trainer and moderator of large group seminars. He is primarily occupied with the planning and moderation of wiki projects.

Alexander Warta, information scientist, is a doctoral candidate employed at Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart. He is a specialist for the wiki software Confluence.

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