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Online Social Media in the Workplace: A Conversation with Employees
Published in Michael D. Coovert, Lori Foster Thompson, The Psychology of Workplace Technology, 2013
Richard N. Landers, Andrea S. Goldberg
Wikis are a fourth common type of social media. Wikis, generally, are web pages with content editable by any user of that web page, regardless of the user's credentials or relationship to the wiki's owner. A prominent example is Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), the goal of which is to provide a freely accessible user-contributed encyclopedia rivaling those currently published. This approach has been successful by many metrics, with research indicating that the major encyclopedic content of Wikipedia is nearly as accurate in describing phenomena of interest as is Encyclopedia Britannica (Giles, 2005), a particularly impressive feat considering its writers are entirely unpaid volunteers. The use of such effort to meet organizational goals is most commonly called crowdsourcing. Evidence is beginning to mount that this technique is a valid method by which to gather information from the masses for a wide variety of purposes, from the collection of innovative business ideas (Kozinets, Hemetsberger … Schau, 2008) to the recruitment of research participants (Behrend et al., 2011).
Social Networks and Social Media
Published in Julie A. Jacko, The Human–Computer Interaction Handbook, 2012
Molly A. McClellan, Julie A. Jacko, François Sainfort, Layne M. Johnson
The most popular and commonly known wiki is Wikipedia, a multilingual web-based free encyclopedia written collaboratively by many users. As of June 9, 2011, the English Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/) had 3,654,148 articles, 24,147,440 pages in total with 466,735,596 edits. There were 14,708,291 registered users, including 1,790 administrators. Wikipedia is self-governed; any user can add content. However, there are guidelines that should be followed and are available on the site. Because the site is self-organizing, anyone can build a reputation to become an editor. Amongst the editors, there are varying hierarchies including administrators. Despite having over 14 million users, there are less than 2000 admins. These users are allowed to delete articles, block accounts or IP addresses, and edit fully protected articles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About).
Online Social Networks and Social Network Services: A Technical Survey
Published in Syed Ijlal Ali Shah, Mohammad Ilyas, Hussein T. Mouftah, Pervasive Communications Handbook, 2017
Huangmao Quan, Jie Wu, Yuan Shi
Wiki is a collaborative encyclopedia service that allows any user to contribute content by creating and editing Web pages. Wikis may serve different purposes, such as learning, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing. Wikis can facilitate social processes [42] in the sense of rewarding contribution [43]. Wiki softwares are also used in corporate intranets, mostly as knowledge-management systems, but in terms of online services, Wikipedia is the most famous and among one of the most typical examples of Web 2.0 services. Wikipedia reached three million english articles in August 2009 and enjoyed the title of being “the largest encyclopedia in the world.”
Using a wiki to collect student work in Vector Calculus
Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
Ward Cunningham, the inventor of wikis, noted that ‘a wiki is the simplest online database that could possibly work’ (Leuf & Cunningham, 2001). Several authors have discussed using wikis in undergraduate mathematics education. Peterson (2009) discusses creating a wiki glossary for a course. Katz and Thoren (2014) describe several variations of using a wiki to create a course textbook. Some educators have even allowed public access to their students’ wiki (Medero & Albaladejo, 2020). In MAT 232, we used a wiki to create a private solution manual for a printed textbook and to collect online resources which students found useful while studying for the course. The problems to be solved were assigned at the beginning of the course, and distributed as what we called the Big List. We selected three hundred problems from Stewart’s Multivariable Calculus (2015) which we felt covered the intended material of the course. To get a sense of the problems from the Big List, consider problem S14.3Q54: Find all the second partial derivatives of f(x,y) = ln(ax + by). These problems were placed on the wiki, and distributed with the syllabus.
Contribution and consumption of content in enterprise social media
Published in Information Systems Management, 2018
The terms social software and social media are synonymous for internet-based applications that build on technologies that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010, p. 61). The use of social media in corporate intranets is referred to as enterprise 2.0 (McAfee, 2006) and the software as ESM (e.g., Brzozowski, Sandholm, & Hogg, 2009). ESM allows employees, inter alia, to communicate with one or many coworker(s), to reveal personal networks, to jointly create/edit files and share them, and to view everything aforementioned at any given time (Leonardi, Huysman, & Steinfield, 2013). ESM can include blogs, social networks, wikis, social news, prediction markets, and some other applications. We concentrate here on the first three. Blogs are web pages, which are updated regularly. Their content appears in a reverse chronological order and can consist of text, pictures, videos, or sounds (OECD, 2007). Social networks are applications that allow users to set up profiles in closed systems, to create a list of contacts, view the contact lists of other users, and interact (Boyd & Ellison, 2007). Beyond that, they offer additional services to increase the communication between members like built-in chats, blogging and mailing services, and platforms for sharing various multimedia contents. Wikis are web-based applications consisting of linked sub-sites that are jointly created within this application by a community of users (Leuf & Cunningham, 2008).
Using wikis to investigate communication, collaboration and engagement in Capstone engineering design projects
Published in European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
A ‘wiki’ is an easily editable set of webpages to which users can add a narrative, comments, documents, pictures, etc. (the phrase ‘wiki-wiki’ means ‘quick’ in Hawaiian; Chao 2007). This makes them an attractive platform for communication and recently, University Virtual Learning Environments have started to include the possibility to set up wikis. These allow students to interact securely within their confines (McLoughlin and Lee 2010), thus satisfying the need for protecting sensitive information.