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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 infringement | People 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 Discussion | Set 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 time | Introducing 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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