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Wiki Syntax madness

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, I am an avid Wiki user. I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host.

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Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki.

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What I’m learning

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. Check out the wiki. I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. The event itself has been fab.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face? This feels like a different part of the digital divide. Lots of people were there (I ran out of handouts – I was surprised to see how many people showed up.)

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) I want to do more and more writing, and doing this sort of thing might be pretty helpful for me.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) I want to do more and more writing, and doing this sort of thing might be pretty helpful for me.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. What’s important to note here is that unlike wiki or websites, the direct forms of content creation, with Ushahidi citizens only needed to know the number to which they send reports from their phone.

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