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edit Physical Wiki of the office

AboutUs does not keep its wikiositude (it's a word - look it up) confined to its website. This collaborative approach "bodies forth" even in the physical shape of AboutUs Towers. At AboutUs, work is done in small groups, which change to reflect the needs of the job in front of us. What better way to allow for the creation of work groups than living the wiki.

Look at the space as a whole. It's open, with few barriers between individuals. The large rows of industrial windows even effect a connection with the outside world.

Now look at the work stations Each of the tables and chairs in our workspace are equipped with large rubber wheels. When a work group forms, AboutUs-ites can wheel desks and chairs together for the duration of the meeting or project, lock down the wheels, then unlock them when they're done and wheel them away again.

Finally, the whole place is tied together electronically not by great fat bundles of wires but by a sophisticated wifi system, that allows anyone to work with any computer from anywhere in the office.

For AboutUs, wiki is not just a nice idea or a business sector to exploit, it's a way of thinking. At AboutUs, we practice what we preach.

(We've got photos by Mark on our Flickr account. http://www.flickr.com/photos/25990940@N02/ Anyone who wants to chime in on this topic, please add quotes/observations here. By the way, what's a "Post It Note monitor?" sounds intriguing.)

edit Linking in Wiki

introduction post The importance of WikiWords in the wiki is paramount. They let you easily link up ideas and information that relate to each other. The fact that we can do this easily in a wiki is one of the best things about it. When I first met Ray, and I introduced him to the idea of WikiIndex - he taught me about DomainNames. Basically my understanding became this: Domain names are the WikiWords of the internet. Later that year AboutUs.org was born in its current form. Here, in this wiki, I can WikiLink any domain and build a relationship. Google.com or GoogleMaps.com - any domain now becomes a destination place for a conversation or thought process to travel on/to.

http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html

edit How to link

WikiLinking
SurfWise - CamelCase
Surf Wise - FreeLinks
url <a href="http://Foo.com">Foo</a>


FutureLink: link to movie domain weblog post:

This is the first in a short series of occasional posts on how to get yourself up to speed in the use of wikis. No time like the present, no subject as elemental as a "WikiLink" or "WikiWord." Mark has this to say about the relationship between WikiWords and domain names.

The importance of WikiWords in the wiki is paramount. They let you easily link up ideas and information that relate to each other. The fact that we can do this easily in a wiki is one of the best things about it. When I first met Ray, and I introduced him to the idea of WikiIndex - he taught me about DomainNames. Basically my understanding became this: Domain names are the WikiWords of the internet. Later that year AboutUs.org was born in its current form. Here, in this wiki, I can WikiLink any domain and build a relationship. Google.com or GoogleMaps.com - any domain now becomes a destination place for a conversation or thought process to travel on/to.

And here's an outline of the nature and use of links in AboutUs.

A WikiLink is a clickable hyper-link from one page on a wiki website to another page.

To link pages here at AboutUs, place the title of the page you want to link to in double brackets and save your edit.

For example: 

       * AboutUs.org will give you AboutUs.org upon save. (Note: To work properly, link just the domain, "www" or "http" aren't needed here.)
       * InterestingHappenings produces InterestingHappenings.
       * Recent Changes shows up as Recent Changes.

To begin WikiLinking navigate to a page you would like to place a link on (e.g. hit your "back" button or search for a page and hit "Find!", etc.) and hit the green edit link.

For more details see our instructions or print a cheat sheet of how to make things look better here and polices on what we think is fair link building here. Feel free to contact us with any questions.

So, if you haven't used this linking function so far on AboutUs, go for it. Experiment with it. One of the things that gives AboutUs, and any wiki, extra value, is the creation of relationships between ideas and pages. Those relationships are established almost solely as the result of your judgment.

The next issue we'll cover in this series is what is known in wikispeak as a CamelCase word.

edit Domain Names i.e. public wiki words

as explified here by Movie domain names: While watching movie trailers on my mac, with Front Row - I started to look at the patterns and here is a list of the movies for preview on mac and their domain names:

Not proper English, well domain names aren't proper english, we are in the internet age...

edit CamelCased Domains Are Easier To Read

Talk about seeing CameCased domain names

edit Domain Identity

Introduce the AboutUsBot and find his praises also talk about AboutUsBotGoneBad

edit name and camel case

DrillbitTaylor.com
88MinutesToLive.com
SonOfRambow.com
SpiderwickChronicles.com (small uppercase)
TropicThunder.com

edit www and camel case and movie

www.PrideAndGloryMovie.com

edit camel case and not name

ANightToDieFor.com (Prom Night)

edit camel case and movie

RuinsMovie.com
ForbiddenKingdomMovie.com
StopLossMovie.com

edit camel case and movie and A issue

ShineALightMovie.com

edit camel case distributor

FoxMovies.com

edit www and camel case and Movie

www.RunFatBoyRunMovie.com

edit camel case and dash and movie

21-Movie.com
Deception-Movie.com

edit camel case and movie

WhatHappensInVegasMovie.com

edit camel case small uppercase com and A issue

CanYouHearAWho.COM

edit subdomain and spacing and camel case

Disney.com/College Road Trip

edit wow, confused,

sorta camel case and dash and movie with lowercase

I must admit, I was to the M's and getting tired, but then ran into this mess:

MadeofHonor-movie.com

edit www and upper case

WWW.THETRACEYFRAGMENTS.COM

edit pre and www and lowercase and the movie

www.mgm.com www.dealthemovie.com

edit uppercase and movie and not name

WWW.BLUEBERRYNIGHTSMOVIE.COM

edit www and upper case and pre and post and movie

WWW.TAKEPART.COM/SOP
WWW.STANDARDOPERATINGPROCEDUREMOVIE.COM
WWW.SONYPICTURECLASSICS.COM

edit no domain

Flawless
The Life Before Her Eyes (chick flick)
Miss Pettegrew Lives For A Day (chick flick)
My Brother is an Only Child (Italian)
SurfWise - Documentary
Then She Found Me

edit www and uppercase and a following

WWW.THECOUNTERFEITERS.COM
WWW.SONYCLASSICS,COM
WWW.MISTERFOE.COM
www.misterfoe.com

edit www and upercase and movie and dash and a following

WWW.REDBELT-MOVIE.COM
WWW.SONYCLASSICS.COM

edit screaming at me (moved from category uppercase)

NARNIA.COM INDIANAJONES.COM IRONMANMOVIE.COM STARTREK.COM

edit www and lowercase

www.forgettingsarahmarshall.com


edit www dash movie styilzed

WWW.SUPERHERO-MOVIE.COM

edit producer / releaser camel case and lowercase

www.FoxSearchlight.com
www.foxsearchlight.com

edit lowercase and an acronym

www.whereisobl.com

edit www and dash and lowercase and the movie

www.funnygames-themovie.com (same music as chaos theory)
www.smartpeople-themovie.com

edit www and lowercase and .net

www.thestrangers.net

edit www and lowercase and cononical name

www.haroldandkumar.com

edit www and upercase and partial sentance

WWW.DOOMSDAYISCOMING.COM

edit www and movie and lowercase

www.10000bcmovie.com
www.chaostheorymovie.com (same music as funny games)
www.hellboymovie.com
www.leatherheadsmovie.com

edit www and lower case and the movie

www.speedracerthemovie.com

edit www and movie and net and lowercase

www.babymamamovie.net

edit www and subdomain and lowercase

www.lionsgate.com/thebankjob
www.lionsgate.com/meetthebrowns
www.sonypictures.com/zombiestrippers

edit uppercase and movie and dash

BLINDNESS-THEMOVIE.COM

edit www and uppercase and film and a following lowercase

WWW.BOARDINGGATEFILM.COM
www.magpictures.com

and I noticed that all the green screen saying it is rated ok for all audiences. we should use that shot as the organizing theme for movie domains

www.filmratings.com | www.mpaa.org

Come on film industry get out of the 20th century. Your audience is in the 21st century.


but BlahBlahBlah-movie.com shows you don't have the one you need, but it is a bludgeon. You have to bludgeon your way through if you don't have the skills or tools to get you idea off the ground.

edit CollaborativeConversation

Turning notes, thoughts and conversation into weblog posts.

edit feature process musings

edit mark

we have internal process

need to make it public

edit ted

Case study of how things work on the AboutUs wiki

  • using AddThisHere for nominating (explain ATH original use)
  • Cle pointed out, we were inviting people - but notice our language to be more inviting.
  • She also made suggestion, make link to featured pages, add to other places, link more to Features
  • Two different ways to involve more people into the process,
    • everyone is invited to say which are ready, an election (open up current process, which was we always wanted to do)
    • refactoring the current process to be a barn raising. Not raising own barn, to learn what is good and how to collaborate in this space.
      • People that are most active get their barns raised next (sweat equity)
  • Refactor FeatureMe potentials page

edit 21 days of wiki adoption

Ikiw.org [1]

edit Wlog

From Estigmergia.net:

edit Interwiki linking

We've discussed this before and I'd really like to build out a good article on how to interwiki link and then start teaching people about it via weblog post and placing (or transcluding) a quick "how to" on the DomainPages for all of the wikis on the interwiki list.

Resources/places to start on these:

  • InterWiki -- a real convoluted series of notes on how to do the linking.
  • Special:Interwiki -- the table of who's in the list and where to add new wikis

edit Welcoming people

It seems that there has been a lot of work/discussion in the community group about this (the WelcomingPeopleConnections is quite interesting for example). There's a weblog post in this.

edit Personal Pages (and how to improve them)

It's obvious that the Personal Pages scaffold we put up a couple of weeks ago with the portrait is going well. How about a series of weblog posts on improving these pages.

  • How is it obvious?
  • How to size and pick a portrait
  • Now that you've uploaded a portrait, what now?
  • Linking your Personal Page to the websites/domains and people you care about (and improving those pages as well).
  • etc.

edit Team weblog check-in post

Maybe have a task in each team (Dev, Content, Community, Admin) that's once an iteration help pair on a weblog post about what your team is working on, excited about, etc. (similar to the outlined "welcoming people" above).

edit RSS Feeds for Page History

HOLD ON TO THIS

Write a post about how to use RSS to get updates on page history changes (in addition to using the "Watch" function). There's probably a help article in this as well. -- TakKendrick and MarkDilley

edit ESRG

Ward is really interested in ESRG and would like to maybe blog about this in the upcoming week. We're also interested in maybe using this as a "test case" since Ward's already tracking ESRG on Google searches to see what putting it into a weblog post might do to the search results. Update: The guy who'd been building out the great ESRG pages will be in the office on Oct. 3, so we're planning on holding off on this weblog post for a couple weeks so we can do a sort of "interview" with him as part of the post.

edit Giving images to Creative Commons

JohnStanton and TakKendrick -- Post talking about this post: http://searchengineland.com/070911-083723.php on how uploading images onto Wikipedia (in our case AboutUs) can result in some great link love if the caption/licensing information is done correctly. We'd also like to do up a nice article for the wiki on this as well as the actual blog post.

edit OOMXL

OOMXL is an open document format that Microsoft is trying to force through the International Standards Organization so that they can maintain their document monopoly. Jason claims the standard is "really bad" and would like to pair on this soon.


edit Presidential Portal Update

  • An update on what's been happening with the Presidential portal.

-Oh, this sounds great Tak, Mark. I'd love this future post to link to a page we create that really works to get people involved. Given my recent group project- I can't help but think of how the greening of well, everything has permeated politics, society and business. In poring over the debate transcripts energy, the environment, alternative fuel are recurring themes. Then I remember that the US did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol; leaders are hoping for support in 2009 for the succeeding pact . What do folks think? Are we really ready to be Green?... But I digress, let's brainstorm. Kasey 17:14, 30 August 2007 (PDT)

  • Need to meet with Kasey and brainstorm / barnraise an involvement page. MarkDilley 18:11, 12 October 2007 (PDT)

edit AnnualCommunityReview

edit Wikimania

edit Project Management via Wiki

edit Technical Details on how AboutUs works

  • servers, bandwidth, caching, squids, aka how does AboutUs.org serve millions of pageviews every month? --Simon | talk 14:22, 20 November 2007 (PST)
    • love this idea! TedErnst (talk) 05:58, 21 November 2007 (PST)
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