Wiki Web Collaboration /

• Main Authors: Ebersbach, Anja (Author), Glaser, Markus (Author), Heigl, Richard (Author), Warta, Alexander (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Edition: 2.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Multimedia information systems.; Text processing (Computer science).; Multimedia systems.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Multimedia Information Systems.; Document Preparation and Text Processing.; Media Design.

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 scien...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Preface
• Wiki!?
• The Wiki Concept
• Our First Wiki: MediaWiki
• The Installation
• First Steps
• The Core Functions of MediaWiki
• Formatting
• Multi-Page Structures
• Components: the Function Pages
• Administration
• Extensions
• Life in MediaWiki
• TWiki, the Jack of all Trades
• Installing TWiki
• Working with TWiki
• Formatting in TWiki
• Searching in TWiki
• Structured Data with Forms
• Installing TWiki
• Administering TWiki
• Designing a TWiki.
• TWiki as a Project Kit
• Preliminary Thoughts: What is a Project?
• Conceptual Phase: Collecting Ideas and Outlining the Project
• Composing the Project Plan
• Preparing for your Event
• Executing and Documenting an Event
• Go with the Flow: Confluence
• Installing Confluence
• Overview
• Formatting
• Organization
• Settings
• Tools with a Future
• Technical Challenges
• A few Wiki Projects
• The Art of “Sowing” Wikis
• Social Perspectives.