Offline Wikis
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Not much activity on Monday afternoon on my “Offline Wikis” idea. The term obviously meant different things to different people, including: Applying wiki philsophy to the offline world Evidence of wiki interactions in real life discussion How to access wiki content when not at a computer Integration of offline users with online wiki article creation [...]
by Kevin Makice
A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.
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Not much activity on Monday afternoon on my “Offline Wikis” idea. The term obviously meant different things to different people, including:
- Applying wiki philsophy to the offline world
- Evidence of wiki interactions in real life discussion
- How to access wiki content when not at a computer
- Integration of offline users with online wiki article creation & editing
The issue of accessing information without a computer is one that merits further discussion, but the focus I was hoping for was on looking at the way people interact without a computer mediating for them and seeing what wiki-like properties the offline environment holds. From a design standpoint, if we communicate one way and the program forces us to do something else, then it likely is not going to be as effective for the user as it could be.
I’ll try not to reinvent the wheel and refer you to the WikiSym wiki page on the subject.