Since Wikipatterns.com launched on February 14th, a number of bloggers have discussed, praised, criticised, and analyzed the wiki. Here a sampling of what people have had to say:
Mike Gunderloy, WebWorkerDaily:
“There’s a lot of knowledge distilled in this site. If you’re trying to figure out how to get people on board with a wiki - or some other distributed networking software - it’s worth your while to poke around and learn from people who’ve been down this road before you.�
Evan Prodromou, Journal/29 Pluviôse CCXV:
“I'm interested to see how wikipatterns.com goes. I think it could be an extremely valuable resource. Currently a lot of the language is aimed towards company wikis, which is probably where a lot of Atlassian people's interest lies, but I'm more interested in creating big Open Content repositories based on the contributions of the entire Internet. It will be interesting to see how wiki patterns scale to fit both kinds of wikis.�
Jerry Bowles, Enterprise Web 2.0:
“It turns out (no surprise) that people working together online have pretty much the same habits and personality quirks that you encounter in real life; which is to say, they behave in ways that range from super positive and reinforcing to downright nasty and demotivating. Because wikis are community efforts their ultimate success depends upon encouraging the former and keeping a lid on the latter.
Atlassian has now launched a public wiki called Wikipatterns.com that focuses on identifying and collecting patterns that help coordinate peoples’ efforts and guide the growth of content, which is the key to wiki success. Equally important, Wikipatterns also collects anti-patterns that might hinder the growth of a wiki, so they can be fixed or avoided.�
Brian Lamb, Abject Learning:
“...do check out Wikipatterns, which appears indispensable to anyone who wants to support the growth of wikis in their own environment. I love the way it is structured, and everything I've read so far has really impressed me.�
Doug Belshaw, teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk:
“Wikipatterns is a great idea...It’s also something that you can take part in - something that you can help build, both teaching others and learning from it at the same time.�
Osama Hashimi, Green & White:
"This was a bad, bad move on Confluences part, and it does nothing but turn their leads further away."
Adrian Sutton, Symphonious:
“What I love most about it though, is that while it might frustrate some of their competitors, it is undeniably a really, really good thing to do for their users and users of any type of wiki.�
Scott Leslie, EdTechPost:
“...in case anyone’s reading this, I would like to nominate Stewart and the company he works with as poster kids for “having a clue� in how to engage the blogosphere (and internet in general) in authentication conversation. How about offering up useful guides for free and writing a wiki/book on the topic; it’s not the quick route, but I know that I will actually look upon Atlassian software in an even more favourable light because of this giving back to their communities. Next time someone asks me for wiki software recommendations, it’s bound to have some small positive effect, even unconsciously, on my thinking.�
Thanks to everyone who's written about, commented on, and contributed to Wikipatterns.com!
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