SelfishConnector
- make use of the wiki to make my personal life easier
- finds a succession of useful instances that connect people, information, etc.
ChampionProsetyzer
- promotes the wiki
- evangelical
- gives voice to the vision beyond the tool
HavingWikiShepherds
- rename admins as "janitors" that have tools to clean-up, not
- Alt labels: guide, sherpa, porter
InvitationToAdoption
- have suggestions ready as to why and how to use the wiki
- connect with people's needs and hand-off
IntentionalErrorPattern
- Ward started it: when he gets a group together, he puts up a wiki and leaves errors (spelling mistakes etc.)
- by fixing a spelling error ("first one's free"), a new user begins to feel ownership in the wiki
GeeksWhoTalkAboutComputers
- what we do
- easy to talk about computers
- less successful thatn
DiffusionOfInnovationModel
- using the bell curve & crossing the chasm
- we want to get past the early adopters
- what's the value that crosses the chasm
- ignore either end of the bell curve
HigherLevelKnowledgeClassification
- develop a higher level means of describing appropriate tool or location of information
- introduce decision rules or rules of thumb that say, "when X, it goes in a wiki; when Y it goes in an email"
LearningToCollaborate
PerceptibleValue
ValueProgression
- Cost/value proposition
- Don't need low threshold for high value activities
- Need a low threshold for next level
WorkingTogetherWorksBetter?
MagnetPattern
- put crucial information in the wiki – and nowhere else – so people will be encouraged to go find it in its new location
- important information on the wiki
- Human Resources (e.g., policy) information
- alarm detail process posted
LunchMenu
- only motivates read
- characteristics
- discrete
- temporary
- important
LeapOffunction
- start from poker page
- imagine other tables as possibilities
UserIsALeech? - an antipattern
- pulls out the content from the wiki in an email
WikiFollowsSocialStructure?
- Use of wikis is bounded by social
- translated pages don't get edited
BarnRaising? see: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?BarnRaising
- How to get the first few useful pages.
- How important the front page is to user adoption depends on the wiki: (The front page may be bypassed in web search)
- furniture fits the room. A big infrastructure with little content may discourage use.
- progressive release of tools, elements on the front page
OwnPageAsBeachHead? PersonalIdentity?
- Give people a voice / identitiy immediately
TemplatePage?
- a variant of intentional error pattern
- competitive review template – starts you off
DesignOfFrontPage?
- lots of good ideas here
- Ican wiki – has lots of good side-bar stuff that explains what to do
- search button, table of contents, teaser text, featured pages, etc.
FrontPageIndicatesQuality?
- Google style vs Yahoo style. Different peopel attracted to different styles.
- wikitravel.com
- project
- geographical
- features
- recent changes, etc.
- front page is not stale
LowThreshold?
GoodFirstImpression?
OverlyStructuredWiki?
BlankPages? that say "write me now."
You may also want to see http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiPatternLanguage
The WikiPractices page might benefit from being a little more structured, maybe like this page. Good Job! MarkDilley
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