Wiki styling & social tools

Intro

Today will be a collective exploration on different ways to style/structure a wiki with the set of social tools that are embedded in Mediawiki software.

To prepare for today we would like to ask you to think of the following questions:

• which aspects or elements of the AA wiki would you like to emphasize?
• what might help the visitor navigate the wiki and find interesting content?
• what is shown that should be hidden and vice-versa?
• what would the role of a customised skin be?

Reading suggestions

Interview series on wiki publishing by Publishing Lab team Cristina Cochior, Juan Gomez, Lucia Dossin and Sandra Fauconnier

• Wiki-as-documentation with Anja Groten (Hackers & Designers)
• Wiki-as-wet-classification with Renee Turner, Andre Castro & Manufactura Independente
• Wiki-as-Thinking-Machine with Mondoteque (Femke Snelting, Alexia de Visscher, Natacha Roussel, Martino Morandi)

Beyond Social

• BS wiki skin Readme
• Beyond Social wiki

Styling & social tools

Elements we can discuss (formally, conceptually and from a situated point of view) this day are:

• social tools
• transclusion
• templates
• semantic mediawiki queries
• forms
• creating a customized skin
• watchlists & email notifications