Dear wiki lover: starting tomorrow morning, eastwikkers will be launching a series called "33 Wikis," featuring best practices in wiki-based collaboration. Each day -- for 33 days -- we will focus on one wiki, and we will briefly describe what the wiki is for, why we like it, and what we can all learn from it. We have a long list to choose from -- we have consulted with a number of wiki evangelists already -- but if you would like to nominate a wiki, please let us know asap. The wiki can be public or private, and it can be based on any wiki platform, commercial or open source. We want to hear from all comers.
On day 34, we will repost all nominees on a wiki, so that we have ongoing meeting place to discuss all things wiki.
Giovanni, if you aren't familiar with it already, I'd recommend The Flu Wiki--on the basis of superb content, great agenda, and serving a n underserved niche-market.
I look forward to watching the 33 Days of Wiki unfold - sounds better than a chocolate advent calendar!
Posted by: Shaula Evans | March 23, 2006 at 07:23 PM
Shaula -- thanks so much for the note. Yes, the fluwiki is on our radar. Stay tuned!
Posted by: Giovanni Rodriguez | March 24, 2006 at 02:14 PM
I nominate the television series wiki "TV IV.org"
Posted by: DJ | March 24, 2006 at 10:44 PM
I'd like to see wetpaint on that list. http://www.wetpaint.com
Posted by: Sjoerd Lohuis | March 27, 2006 at 04:30 AM
Shaula, I'm sure you'll agree we all wish the Flu Wiki could one day be eradicated - for lack of subject matter to write about :-))
Posted by: Zoli Erdos | March 27, 2006 at 07:54 AM
Dear Sjoerd -- My series is about implementations, not tools. But if you can send me links to great wikis that have been built on the Wetpaint platform, that would be great. thanks!
Posted by: Giovanni Rodriguez | March 27, 2006 at 09:42 AM
Hi Giovanni,
Thanks for this very nice initiative!
I wonder if you could provide some more background on challenges faced by the wiki starters (like vandalism?) or about the software that the wiki’s run on.
Posted by: Marcel de Ruiter | March 27, 2006 at 10:22 AM
Hi Giovanni
I am very biased, being one of the founders of our charitywiki but I'm sure you'll excuse me ;-) I nominate our wiki which you can find at http://www.whycharity.org and if nothing else, would appreciate your feedback. I look forward to seeing the results of your very interesting and useful initiative.
Stephen
Posted by: Stephen Danelutti | March 27, 2006 at 11:28 AM
I love this idea..I'll be watching!
Posted by: Glenn Malone | March 27, 2006 at 01:41 PM
Stephen -- I'm interested. Can you write to me at giovanni at eastwick dot com? Would like to get more information.
If we had our "33 Wikis" wiki set up already, we wouldn't have to do this. Hmmm .... :)
Posted by: Giovanni Rodriguez | March 27, 2006 at 03:17 PM
First I have to tell you I love the 33 Wikis series so far. I'm a big fan of wikis and have been pushing their use both at my company and for our clients. So for to little luck but I refuse to give up the fight, your series could really help shed some light on how valuable a wiki can be.
I'd also like to nominate my own private wiki that I set up here in Fargo to document the independent music scene here though compared to what you've looked at so far it seems very unimportant.
http://fargobands.yahtzeen.com
Posted by: Phil Leitch | March 27, 2006 at 06:53 PM
I'd like to nominate the Homestar Runner Wiki, an enormous fan-wiki dedicated to the Internet cartoon of the same name.
http://www.hrwiki.org/
I agree with the sentiments in the post about TMBW--wikis are the perfect platform for a fan community. Full disclosure: I'm a Homestar Runner Wiki administrator.
Posted by: Jordan Running | March 27, 2006 at 08:24 PM
http://www.cacheopedia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Cacheopedia is wiki for geocachers.
Posted by: Glenn E. Malone | March 27, 2006 at 09:45 PM
Like Jordan, here's a few fan community wikis that I helped into being:
WikiFur, a wiki dedicated to the culture, personages and history of the furry fandom. ~1,500 visitors a day (both furries and non-furries) to the 3250+ articles. Achieved popularity after an inadvertent "promotion" by SomethingAwful.com in mid-August, shortly after its launch, which resulted in many of the furry-leaning SA members protecting the site from their fellow goons.
Creatures Wiki, a community site for a game/artificial life simulation that's almost 10 years old, and 5 years past its latest engine revision - the original company went bust in 2003. There's still interest in it judging by the 250 visitors/day (and the articles on old breeds, objects and websites that keep popping up).
Posted by: Laurence 'GreenReaper' Parry | March 28, 2006 at 07:03 AM
This is fantastic folks!
I think that MeatballWiki and CommunityWiki would be good to check out and a project that I am involved with WikiIndex is brand new, 16-Jan-2006, based off of SwitchWiki, trying to self-organize wiki.
Best, Mark
Posted by: Mark | March 28, 2006 at 03:32 PM
Hi,
I'd like to nominate The Science of Spectroscopy (http://www.scienceofspectroscopy.info) a wiki for upper level high school and college students to learn about spectroscopy using a model that starts with real-world applications, gets them engaged and asking "how does it work?" and then teaches techniques and theory. Using a wiki enables the site to be edited by a large community of scientists, educators, and even students as part of class group projects. Right now, people are using and editing the wiki from around the world, including US, UK, Germany, Sweden, and Indonesia.
Posted by: Stewart Mader | March 29, 2006 at 12:07 PM
My students are pretty proud of their School wiki they have created a homework page and were named Wikispace of the month in December.
We had no budget for this but have explored everything from Web 2.0 to Mashups on the wiki. It has revolutionized my classroom and we use it as a companion to our blog.
Some of my ninth graders have created a Riddles wikispace that they have worked on as a hobby. This shows just how this relates to younger students for collaboration.
Posted by: Vicki Davis | March 29, 2006 at 01:36 PM
Auckalnd.Wiki (http://auckland.wiki.org.nz) are a relatively new wiki but have been inspired by the likes of wikimaas and davis wiki. would love to be reviewed if you are still looking for the 33. I'd also like to see Wikitravel on the list as well. IT has some interesting features like RDF built in for richer searches, etc.
Posted by: brent | March 29, 2006 at 06:19 PM
The "FemaAnswers.org" wiki at http://www.femaanswers.org/index.php/Main_Page is a great approach by legal aid and advocacy organizations to sharing official guidance and legal news and organizing advocacy responses for & by hurricane survivors.
Posted by: Martha Bridegam | March 31, 2006 at 11:01 PM
Thanks, Martha! Terrific resource.
Posted by: Giovanni Rodriguez | April 01, 2006 at 10:52 AM
Dear Phil, Jordan, Glen, Lawrence, Mark, Stewart, Vicky and Brent -- many thanks for your nominees. I am checking out all of them.
g
Posted by: Giovanni Rodriguez | April 01, 2006 at 10:56 AM
If I could do a little bit of self-promotion as well and nominate www.productwiki.com that'd be great.
Posted by: Omar Ismail | April 01, 2006 at 04:04 PM
Thanks, Omar, Self-promotion, group promotion -- no worries. :) Product Wiki is on our radar.
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Posted by: JeyZee | April 03, 2006 at 02:03 PM
I nominate Wookieepedia, the Star Wars encyclopedia hosted by Wikia. In one year, it has grown to about 28,000 articles and is still rapidly growing, and has been noted by such official Star Wars writers as Abel G. Peña and Karen Traviss.
Posted by: Sikon | April 04, 2006 at 07:18 AM