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香港政府资讯科技总监办公室（OGCIO）将于2006年4月28日（星期五）举行一个有关Web 2.0的研讨会，邀请香港维基人去作一场有关Wiki及维基百科的演讲，对象为香港政府人员。现在希望大家可以一起建立起演讲的内容，显示Wiki的力量 :)
演讲安排[编辑]
- 地点：Information Technology Solution Centre (ITSC), 5/F, Cyberport 1
- 日期：2006年4月28日
- 时间：15:20 - 15:55 (UTC+8)（35分钟）
- 题目：Wiki - Wikipedia in HK
- 语言：英语
- /规则
- /日程
演讲内容[编辑]
Wiki - Wikipedia in HK[编辑]
Contents
- What is Wiki?
- Wikipedia
- Uses of Wiki
What is Wiki?[编辑]
- wiki wiki - Hawaiian for quick
- A website that allows its users to edit its contents quickly and easily
- Looks like an ordinary webpage
- Except that it can be edited
- WikiWikiWeb – the first wiki
- Created by Ward Cunningham in 1994
Key Features of Wiki
- Easy to use
- Easy to edit
- Easy to monitor
- Easy to use
- Requires only a computer, an Internet connection and a web browser
- Pages are highly interconnected
- Easy to edit
- Editing within a browser
- Simple markup language
- e.g. Linking: CamelCase or [[free linking]]
- WYSIWYG
- e.g. MoinMoin wiki engine
- Easy to monitor
- Page history, edit log, version comparison
- Every change is reversible
- Collaborative in nature
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." Linus's law
Wikipedia[编辑]
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." Jimmy Wales - Founder of Wikipedia
- Wiki + encyclopedia = Wikipedia
- Open content encyclopedia
- GNU Free Documentation License
- Contributed by volunteers
- MediaWiki engine
Wikipedia Growth
- Founded on January 15, 2001
- More than 3,800,000 articles in more than 200 languages
- Over 1,000,000 English articles
Spirits of Wikipedia
- Free
- Free as in beer and free as in freedom
- Open
- Everyone can be an editor
- Neutral
- Views are represented fairly and w/o bias
- Collaboration
- Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something
Chinese Wikipedia
- Started on October, 2002
- Contributors from Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Chinese speakers worldwide
- Currently has more than 60,000 articles
- Notable feature: Traditional ←→ Simplified Chinese automatic conversion
Wikipedia in Hong Kong
- Active Hong Kong wikipedians community
- Featured articles: MTR, Octopus card...
- Prof. Andrew Lih of HKU is the first to use Wikipedia in the university setting for instruction
Uses of Wiki[编辑]
Common Wiki Engines
- Many free wiki engines are available
- MediaWiki
- MoinMoin
- TWiki
- PmWiki
Choosing a Wiki
- Software requirement
- Wiki markup syntax and richness
- Access control, user management
- Language support, internationalization
- Customization
Uses of Wiki within an Organization
- Reference site
- Knowledge base
- for internal/external support
- Documentation and planning for projects
- Sharing of information
- Platform for discussion