If you’re interested in knowing how to edit a Wikipedia article, there’s a short (3 min) video on the basics at: http://www.howcast.com/videos/317521-How-To-Edit-a-Wikipedia-Article.
[Link last checked May 2010]
If you’re interested in knowing how to edit a Wikipedia article, there’s a short (3 min) video on the basics at: http://www.howcast.com/videos/317521-How-To-Edit-a-Wikipedia-Article.
[Link last checked May 2010]
Some articles and a video on using wikis for documentation and business projects:
Update February 2011:
[Links last checked and updated February 2011]
Sarah Maddox, a technical writer at Atlassian (creators of the Confluence wiki) and a terrific person, had put together a great list of tools and plug-ins that convert from various document formats into various wikis, and from various wikis into various document formats. Her focus is mainly on tools for Confluence and Mediawiki.
It’s a terrific resource and you can find it on Sarah’s blog: http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/getting-content-into-and-out-of-wikis/
[Links last checked September 2009]
Atlassian, the developers of the Confluence Wiki software and JIRA bug tracking software have a deal on at the moment where you can get a 5-user license for both products for just $5 each.
The deal finishes on April 24, 2009, and all proceeds of these sales go to a charity.
Get yours quick!
Details:
Thanks to some members of a technical writing list I’m on, I found out about some tools that convert HTML and Word to Wiki markup. I haven’t tried any of these yet, so I don’t know how ‘clean’ the end result is, but I offer them as possibilities if you’re looking for ways to do this.
Please add any other tools you’ve found via the Comments.
(Thanks to Wade C, Bill S, and Kathy T for these suggestions)
[Links last checked January 2010]
wikiHow (http://www.wikihow.com) is a collaborative writing project to build the world’s largest how-to manual. The site currently contains over 18,000 articles written, edited, and maintained by volunteers—people like you!
Other online tutorials and ‘how to’ websites include:
[This article is a combination of several first published in the CyberText Newsletter; links last checked November 2009; updated November 2009]