Gregory Szorc's blog

Developing the Case Wiki

The cat has already been let out of the bag that ITS is readying to deploy a wiki for the campus community. Being in a position to control how it gets deployed and realizing that a wiki is by the people and for the people, I ask the reader, "what would you like in the Case wiki?"

The current planned featureset of the wiki is as follows:

• Initially using MediaWiki 1.4.5
• Anonymous users can read every page, Case users can edit any page (with few exceptions)
• User authorization and authentication is handled through the University's SSO mechanism.
• Branded
• InterWiki connectivity with MediaWiki and other popular destinations.

The future planned featureset includes:

• Blog@Case integration -- MediaWiki syntax in posts will be automatically recognized and converted to links


• Concept Map integration


• Middleware-like enhancements to allow the wiki to better integrate with out campus services

We like to think the sky is the limit in terms of the Case Wiki functionality. If you can think of anything you would love to see, please leave a comment.

You can ping this entry by using http://blog.case.edu/gps10/mt-tb.cgi/1548 .

At bottom of each wiki node, list all blog@case referrers.

But, you knew that one already.

Enable blog@case referring, then we'll talk :)

Wonder how many people know about http://help.case.edu/wiki/?

I think it's great that Case is setting up a wiki; a couple of concerns that I have: I'm not sure how this may be used, but if anybody has any intention of using it for distribution of policies/procedures, there needs to be a way for the reader to see who has edited a document and when and what changes were made. Also, I think it would be good to have a linked field or page where it would be possible to give reference or bibliographic citations or other useful "back-up" information for the content of the wiki page. (This is one of my complaints about the wikipedia, that there is no way to verify the source of the information and and for the reader to make any judgment about its veracity.)

In response to Tim's comment:

For every page in the wiki, the user can see a comprehensive history of the page. This history includes the exact changes and by who they were made. For official distribution of policies and procedures, individual pages can be locked to prevent changes from being made.

Although there is not a specific bibliographic feature, one can easily create a bibliographic section on any page. Every page also has a corresponding "Talk" page which is where users can comment on an article without modifying the article. I suppose you could use this to affirm the credibility of a document.

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