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  • NYU Wikis is available to all NYU current faculty, staff, affiliates, and students with NYU email accounts.
  • You can use NYU Wikis in your classroom.

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  • About Wikis
  • Why NYU Wikis?
  • About NYU Wikis
  • When to Wiki?
  • When to Blog?

    • About Wikis

    A wiki is a tool that enables the easy creation and editing of interlinked web pages, using a simplified "wiki markup" language or a WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") text editor within the browser. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites, to power community websites, for personal note taking, and as intranets.

    Why NYU Wikis?

    NYU Wikis is a web-based collaborative tool that faculty and students can use to create and manage private and public content for research, instruction, and University-related activity.

    About NYU Wikis

    NYU Wikis offers the following features and capabilities:

    Interface

    NYU Wikis has a clean interface and offers the following easy-to-use features:

    • Easy, instant editing: You can edit pages right in your browser.
    • Auto-save: Your work is always protected.
    • Version rollback: Revert to a past version at any time — NYU Wikis keeps page histories.

    Content Management

    In NYU Wikis, all attachments are fully versioned, with optional comments by their author — showing you when files were attached, by whom, and for what purpose.

    Collaboration

    NYU Wikis is a great tool for holding discussions, developing ideas for projects, sharing knowledge and meeting notes, and even maintaining an event calendar.

    When to Wiki?

    NYU Wikis is a great choice for a variety of uses and situations. Here are some examples of when you might use a wiki.

    NYU Wikis are great for:

    • Group projects that require the collaborative creation of documents.
    • Graduate students who want to store lengthy and complex dissertation notes.
    • Faculty members looking to create asynchronous workspaces within or across NYU schools and departments.
    • Student organizations creating spaces for facilitating meetings and minutes.

    NYU Wikis are not great for:

    • Creating complex websites with advanced programming languages.
    • Large numbers of individuals dictating document organization without best practices.
    • Advanced or complex content management.

    When to Blog?

    In some cases, you may want to use NYU Blogs instead of NYU Wikis.

    NYU Blogs are great for:

    • Frequent posting of news and updates.
    • Advanced commenting.
    • Easy website creation; no programming required.

    Page last reviewed: April 27, 2011