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.

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

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