tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747464.post-1146695693227258252006-05-03T15:33:00.000-07:002006-05-03T15:34:53.243-07:00<em><strong>This is the thirty-first installment in </strong></em><a href="http://eastwikkers.typepad.com/eastwikkers_/2006/03/33_wikis_send_i.html"><em><strong>"33 Wikis,"</strong></em></a><em><strong> a close look at best practices in wiki-based collaboration. Each day -- for 33 days -- we look at one wiki and briefly describe what the wiki is for, why we like it, and what we all can learn from it. If you want to nominate a wiki, please let us know. On day 34 we will post a public wiki featuring info on all nominees.<br /></strong></em><br /><strong>What this wiki is for: </strong> From the homepage: <a href="http://www.wikiindex.com/Wiki_Index">WikiIndex </a>is "a wiki of wiki, wiki people and wiki ideas, a <a title="WorkInProgress" href="http://wikiindex.com/WorkInProgress">WorkInProgress</a>. This is part of a continued effort to self-organize information collaboratively, started by <a title="WardCunningham" href="http://wikiindex.com/WardCunningham">WardCunningham</a> a decade ago." In an email exchange with eastwikkers, organizer <a href="http://www.wikiindex.com/MarkDilley">Mark Dilley</a> noted, "my main goal is to have this be the first one stop sign town for wiki. People come here and add their wiki, tag it, maintain it like a front lawn and ask wiki related questions."<br /><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=201,height=192,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://eastwikkers.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/wikiindex.png"></a><br /><strong>Why we like it:</strong> there are other indexes and lists that purport to do the same thing -- or similar things -- but WikiIndex is the best of its kind. The "33 Wikis" project is all about finding best-practices in wiki-based collaboration, and we couldn't have managed this project without the timely info that WikiIndex maintains. Among many of the useful pages on this site: wikis arranged by <a href="http://wikiindex.com/Special:Categories">category,</a> wikis that are <a href="http://www.wikiindex.com/Category:Vibrant">vibrant</a> (subjective judgment -- a wiki is vibrant if it "has significant content, or is very interesting, or has a high volume of traffic, or is valuable in some way to the Internet community"), and <a href="http://www.wikiindex.com/WikiProject:Wiki-Noding">wiki noding</a>, a "project that will ultimately allow users to discover entire wiki worlds by traversing the node network."<br /><br /><strong>What we all can learn from it:</strong> Like <a href="http://eastwikkers.typepad.com/eastwikkers_/2006/04/33_29_meatball_.html">Meatball,</a> WikiIndex is a valuable resource for all citizens in wikidom. Lesson is not so much how to replicate what it does well; it's more about becoming knowledgeable in how wikis are being used, what works and what doesn't, and what's new from a use-case perspective. Oh, yeah -- be sure to add your own wiki, and, as Dilley recommends, maintain it nicely for all the folks who pass through town (the traffic is heavy).Giovanni Rodriguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03613854204365356011noreply@blogger.com