Wiki Patterns

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People Patterns Description
90-9-1 Theory Theory that only 10 percent of visitors is doing edits
AcknowledgeGoodness Reward people doing something excellent beyond normal wiki work
BarnRaising Collaborative meeting to build content in the wiki together
Champion A thought leader that is respected by peers and passionate for wiki
IdentityMatters When people's identity is linked to their content they care more
Invitation A simple invitation to people to become a participant on wiki
Maintainer A person who takes responsibility for the quality of specific content
MySpace A wiki page about a person makes that person feel more connected
PageMaintainer A person placing pages in the context of the wiki thinking of structure
Patron (or Sponsor)A high-ranking person who supports and approves the idea of a wiki
Social Tagging Create a tag on a page like To-Do in a workflow kind of manner
StartingPoint Site that explain wikis in general and your wiki in particular for newcomers
Viral More people means they can each encourage their direct contacts to join
Welcoming Actively welcome newcomers and guide towards an active participant
Wiki Charter A document that sets guidelines for community collaboration on the wiki
WikiGnome A person who performs small fixing edits like broken links or misspelling
WikiZenMaster A person who changes format to make the wiki more visually appealing

People Anti-Patterns Description
Bully A pro-wiki person angrily stressing the use of the wiki to non-wiki users
ContributorForHire A person hired for adding and editing the wiki content
Copyright infringementPeople adding copyright material to the wiki
Do it all A person that wants to do all wiki edits on his own saying let me do it
Gate A barrier people need to take like difficult registration or needed approval
Leech A person taking content from the wiki and sending it to people by email
OverOrganizer A person constantly adjusting the structure of a wiki so people can not find
Vandal A person who damage the content of wiki by adding or deleting information
WikiNoob A pro-wiki person not understanding how to work with wiki and its features
Wikiphobia A person afraid of using wiki because of loss of ownership or vandalism
WikiTroll A person usually provoking people by saying something philosophically negative

Adoption Patterns Description
Agenda Sending a link to the meeting agenda in Wiki tp meeting participants
Automatic Index Show the activity on the main page with automatic indexes etc
Built-in obsolescence Add the document validity period to a document
Clean Permissions Explain the permissions that are given to users
Conferences Organize conferences by using Wiki collaboration pages
ContentAlert Insert an alert to a page what needs to be improved
Corporate Directory Have a corporate directory in Wiki
Critical Mass A critical mass content is needed to get a Wiki explosion
Email to Wiki Give the possibility to mail to Wiki
FAQ Collection of commonly asked questions
FutureLinks Create a “create page link” to encourage people to create that page
How to use this site Quick startup guide for newcomers
Intentional Error Intentionally making errors which are left for others to find and fix
Lunch Menu Put regularly changing information on the Wiki
Magnet Having some content exclusively on the wiki to draw users to it
Naming Conventions Have a convention about page names to increase find ability
New Starter Set up a introduction process for new starters to get known to Wiki
OverviewPages Per possible view have a link page available with links to the articles
Permission Granted Allow any user to perform any action on behalf of the site
Poker Encourage putting trivial content in your wiki to disable threatened people
Quote Participants Quote a person who made an important decision or comment in minutes
Recognition Provide recognize mechanisms for value added by contributors
Scaffold As blank pages are scaring create a simple startup template  for people
Seed it with content When starting a wiki take care to fill it with preexisting content
Selective Rollback Roll back any content that is clearly not acceptable
Set Window of DiscussionSet a deadline and state that old pages will be frozen, hidden, or removed
SingleProblem Ask people for a problem requiring collaboration to solve and help with wiki
ThreadMode Enable people to discuss the topics in threaded comments
Transit area Have a folder for unshared documents, each week put the content on wiki

Adoption Anti-Patterns Description
All wiki all the timeIntroducing a wiki takes some time, you should not hurry the process
EmptyPages People are often reluctant to be the first to edit an empty page
Inconsistent Spaces Wikis that use a wide variety of user interfaces and navigation confuse visitors
Manager Lockdown A manager starts editing pages thus scaring off other users
One Way Street Wikis that allow users to create content but not edit/delete the content afterwards
OneHammer Wiki is used for everything in the organization thus downgrading the usefulness
PageOwnership People thinking that its not allowed to touch a users content
Sandbox Creating a page and encouraging others to practice wiki editing on this page
ThreadMess Too much threaded comments become unusuable for users
wikiPaintBrush Confusing technology with purpose of a system

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