Hi Linda
I was waiting for Frankie to respond with the technical side before
replying myself. As the *cough* other co-author of the paper he
mentioned (and having just finished my MA dissertation on Museum Wikis),
although I'm less good on the technicalities of setting up wikis, I'd be
happy to chat about launching them and encouraging people to use them,
what topics work best, marketing them etc.
Good luck with your wiki, would be interested to know how it goes!
Thanks
Rhiannon
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Frankie Roberto
Sent: 05 December 2008 10:18
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Subject: Re: Wikis
Linda wrote:
Can anyone tell me where and how I can set up my own wiki?
Will I have to pay? Is it easy to do?
Well, *cough*, as the co-author of a paper on museums and wikis to be
presented at mw2009 (http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/1346), I can
give you a few ideas. As with other types of web software like blogging
platforms, you have the option of going for a 'hosted' service, or
installing it on your own server. The former is probably a bit easier to
set up, but may come at a cost and/or adverts on the website. The latter
gives you full control, but requires a bit of fiddling.
There's a huge number of different wiki programs (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software for a list, or if you
like big tables see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software),
but they vary hugely in terms of features and community support (online
tutorials, forums, plugins and so on).
The market leader is MediaWiki
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki>,
which used and published by the foundation behind Wikipedia. It's not
the simplest of the lot, but has a huge amount of community support, and
the similarity with Wikipedia can be an advantage in and of itself.
Far more important than which software to use though is what you're
going to use it for, and how you frame the interaction. Do you have an
existing on or offline community you want to use it with? Or is it meant
as a way of interacting with the general public?
Cheers,
Frankie
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