Wikimedia recently conducted a study into how to make their projects, like Wikipedia, more usable and user friendly. The study highlighted a number of interesting points, like that many users had never been to Wikipedia’s homepage, instead finding articles through search engines. These points have helped steer development.
One of the first things to come out [...]
Make Wikipedia more usable with Vector
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Apr 22nd, 2009
- Comments: 3
Using your own Wiki for coding
The biggest time saver you can implement in your coding practices is some sort of searchable database of all the data you need when you’re working on a project. I mean code snippets, images, data sets, tips & tricks, whatever you use a lot and can be copy pasted. A great way to manage these [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Mar 23rd, 2009
- Comments: 2
Create Interactive Classroom Pages with CourseForum
If you are a teacher or have any need for a classroom-based Wiki project, I have the perfect solution for you. I discovered CourseForum a few years back when I was looking for a web-based software that could help a peer create a web site for her class that could help students stay organized. There [...]
Wikipedia gets books and gets printed
Last year, the German Wikipedia was printed. Now, many Wikipedias worldwide – including the English Wikipedia – has given people the opportunity to compile a book of Wikipedia articles which can then be professionally printed or exported as a PDF or OpenDocument.
Wikipedia has enabled the ‘Book’ extension to MediaWiki, the content management system it [...]
Become a Wikipedia poweruser
You, like me, will no doubt spend a significant amount of your time on Wikipedia so you might as well make your browsing and editing as easy as it possibly can be. Several userscripts, Firefox extensions and small tricks exist which can help maximise your Wikipedia experience.
The most useful tool to improve the browsing of [...]
Get Free Images, Video and Sound from Wikimedia Commons
When creating a presentation, a web design, a leaflet or a brochure, it is important to find suitable images to use. Whilst one option is to pay for stock photos to use under a restrictive licence, another option is to find free (gratis and libre) photos.
Wikimedia Commons is the repository which Wikipedias and other Wikimedia [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jul 1st, 2008
- Comments: 5
Google sites – a different type of Wiki
I don’t know how many of you have tried Google Sites, which is a Wiki like application available for Google Apps users. Although the application itself lacks a lot of features (more on that a bit later), the framework, the development and the way things are going is awesome. You can use Google Sites for [...]
