As an addition, or an alternative to a wiki how about a question and
answer site? I have created a test example at
http://hutch.cs.man.ac.uk/
Similarly, please feel free to try it. You can either register for an
account or sign in via twitter. I hope to add sign in through facebook
once the appropriate part of facebook starts working again.
Wikispaces.com looks a lot easier to use than many other wikis.
Unfortunately it looks like it's locked into one particular company
that may begin charging (which apparently Ning have started doing) or
go bust. An open source wiki with the same usability of wikispaces
would be better then we're not tied into a particular company -- if
anyone knows of one?
Andrew
Dr Andrew Robinson
University of Manchester
On 3 Aug 2010, at 23:12, Jo Brodie wrote:
> Interesting ideas coming through - thank you.
>
> Although I'm not particularly wedded to the idea of a wiki I thought
> I should highlight Wikispaces which doesn't use any fancy language.
> It's basically like using Word (insert preferred text editor here)
> and I made this with it - feel free to add a page and play around
> with the editing.
>
> http://sciencecommunication.wikispaces.com/
>
> It's perhaps not ideal for what I'm suggesting, as it would soon be
> a chaos of added pages - probably a content management system would
> be better.
>
> I created that earlier this year and promptly forgot about it, as
> will be abundantly obvious from its half-bakedness!
>
> Wouldn't mind if you didn't delete all the pages... but I can't stop
> you as I've set it to 'anyone can edit' ;-)
>
> Jo
>
>
>
> On 3 Aug 2010, at 17:22, "Jon Manning" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> It's my experience that most non-technical users are extremely
>> averse to wiki syntax- as I understand the term 'wiki'. Some of the
>> more geek-centric groups I work with are happy with the idea, but
>> others click edit, see that markup, and never come back.
>>
>> I get on very well with content management systems such as Drupal-
>> you can implement all kinds of functionality and have it all in one
>> place. Users can edit pages more easily, and they get a 'wysiwyg'
>> interface with Word-like features they're familiar with. Plus the
>> available plugins make available features you might not have
>> thought of.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>
>> A Robinson wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On the subject of sharing, I've been trying to design a mechanism
>>> for Science Communication here in Manchester, but there's nothing
>>> to stop it being a national thing too.
>>> So far the thinking is a mailing list, yahoo answers style Q&A,
>>> wiki combination. -- We've looked around and can't find anything
>>> that seems to solve the problem.
>>>
>>> Anyone else got any experiences, online sites for this sort of
>>> thing that they particularly like? How do people feel about a wiki?
>>>
>>>
>>> Dr Andrew Robinson
>>> University of Manchester
>>>
>>> On 3 Aug 2010, at 16:45, Jo Brodie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all
>>>>
>>>> *1. Capturing useful psci-com information*
>>>>
>>>> Re: [PSCI-COM] Copyright and use of video clips in education
>>>> sessions
>>>>
>>>> This sounds very useful Ruth, thanks for sharing.
>>>>
>>>> Do we capture this sort of information somewhere? I know it's
>>>> searchable over at jiscmail.ac.uk but it seems like we could make
>>>> it a bit easier to find. I seem to remember suggesting some sort
>>>> of wiki-type of thing a while back but I'm afraid I've forgotten
>>>> what was agreed, if anything – oops. Having said that I certainly
>>>> don't want to give myself, or anyone else, any more work to do…
>>>>
>>>> I currently have my 'Sharepoint intranet trainer's' head on at
>>>> work so am seeing everything as 'content' to be captured at the
>>>> moment ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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