Key topics
- the Start page
- WelcomeRitual
- SeedPosting
- UtilityWiki
- WikiMailBox
Closely related wiki
Wiki about teaching:
- the University-of-Openness
- http://teachingwiki.org/ needs WikiNode
- edu-forge-wiki, a wiki for developing free software for education.
- the Mentat Wiki: exploring ways to become a better thinker
- 43folders wiki has a section on Cornell notes and other note-taking techniques.
- http://ikiw.org/ "Using Wiki in Education" "... a blog and wiki based book by Stewart Mader, focused on the wiki as a tool for collaborative learning and knowledge construction." needs WikiNode
Wiki about wiki ("WikiOnWiki"):
- the CommunityWiki
- Meatball
- WikiBooks:WikiScience (see also CommunityWiki:WikiScience)
- http://wikipatterns.com/ -- discusses "Wiki Patterns" and best practices for growing your wiki. needs WikiNode
Brief Summary
The WikiNode of a particular wiki is a page titled "WikiNode".
Description
Many wiki have a page titled "WikiNode". It describes what the wiki is about, has a short list of key pages, and has a list of the wiki most closely related to that wiki.
More Info
Most wiki have some sort of purpose or mission statement. Quite often, after one has used a particular wiki for a while, one wants to discuss a topic that is OffTopic? for that particular wiki. The WikiNode network helps that one find a wiki where that topic is OnTopic?. (Every topic is OnTopic? on at least one wiki. For more discussion of this strange theory, see CommunityWiki:OnAndOffTopic )
People are starting to expect every wiki to have a few StandardPage?s. Some are built into the WikiEngine (such as RecentChanges), while others are built by users as-needed -- such as the WikiNode (which always has the same name on every wiki) and the TalkPage (which goes by a different name on each wiki) and the SandBox (usually called SandBox or WikiSandBox?).
discussion
This is a dual-purpose page (some would even call it a McGuffin).
One section acts as the WikiNode -- including the list.
One section describes what a WikiNode is -- "... It contains a list ...".
Perhaps it would work better if we blended everything together.
-- DavidCary