Wikipatterns | 
| Author: Stewart Mader
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 12181
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0470223626
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.693
EAN: 9780470223628
ASIN: 0470223626
Publication Date: December 10, 2007
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Product Description
- This book provides practical, proven advice for encouraging adoption of your wiki project and growing it into a useful collaboration tool or vibrant online community
- Gives wiki users a toolbox of thriving wiki patterns, which enable newcomers to avoid making common mistakes or fumbling around for the solutions to the same problems as their predecessors
- Explains the major stages of wiki adoption and explores patterns that apply to each stage
- Presents concrete, proven examples of techniques that have helped people grow vibrant collaborative communities and change the way they work for the better
- Reviews the overall process, including setting up initial content, encouraging people to contribute, dealing with disruptive elements, fixing typos and broken links, making sure pages are in their correct categories, and more
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Better Online September 4, 2008
It's far from an exciting book (it was great for helping me fall asleep at night), but it has valuable content. You can actually get the whole book online, since it was, naturally, written on a wiki -- in fact, you can contribute to the wiki. I recommend the website/wiki as a resource for all of involved with community management and wikis: [...]
Good Concept August 6, 2008
Wikipatterns is a good book, but not a great one. It did help me clarify a lot of my doubt regarding the wiki technology and the book has a lot of case studies.
There are many patterns discussed in the book and also on the website. Choosing the right pattern would still be complicated task even after reading this book.
 No content July 28, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Don't bother buying this one; a minute skimming in the book store is all you need to extract what little content there is here. This book is just a collection of too-long generalities and opinions that don't add up to much. I worry that anyone who finds this book useful could have responsibility for setting up a wiki.
 Wikipatterns June 22, 2008
I thought this was a great book for understanding the power of Web 2.0 and use of Wiki's
 Okay, for what it is June 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm disappointed. This book lacked the substance and depth that I expected. I was very excited to receive it, as I've been looking for a good book that details the hows and whys of the wiki, but I looked through it once and haven't picked it up since. Its geared toward business use and the different kinds of users one will encounter when trying to set up an internal business wiki, but it doesn't get as much into the hows as would like, beyond surface ideas of how to encourage participation.
A much more challenging book would be a discussion of those things in regard to public wikis -- it's a very different scenario when someone at work has to use the company wiki, versus an internet user who does so for pleasure or fun.
Also, the production run is shoddy -- the paper inside the book is very thin, the print half-tones are extremely rough and the cover is of poor quality.
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