Forums and wikis together

[writespeak]

Forums have evolved over the years, and these days, wikis are sometimes an addition to forums. How do you see forums and wikis working together? How do you manage moderation for wikis? Do you create rules for them and check new and edited content? What else can you share with the class about wikis and how they work with forums and forum staff?

Thanks,
Lois

[SoftWareRevue]

Seems like an interesting topic with little activity. :P

How do you see forums and wikis working together?I think many forums will be going this route. Most forums contain a lot of information. And wikis are just another way to get that information out there. Forums contain many right answers (and wrong) for the same question. Wikis are the search for one right answer.

How do you manage moderation for wikis?How do you mean? New additions to the wiki need to be approved first?

Do you create rules for them and check new and edited content?Oh. That. :)

I'm kinda new to this wiki thing.

What else can you share with the class about wikis and how they work with forums and forum staff?That I'm kinda new to this whole wiki thing?

And maybe the bit about the one right answer. :fu:

[CD Burnt]

some tech discussion here >> http://forumuniversity.com/campus/showthread.php?t=593

[Scott]

I think it really depends on the nature of the forum. For somewhere which will always have that one right answer then sure, why not. The problem as I see it is the thin line between whether the forum is to discuss articles on the wiki or whether the wiki is serving the forum.

I also like to see some sort of integration. One of the sites I know of which implements this has a specific part of the forum for discussion/help with the articles in the wiki.

Another problem is making sure the wiki is actually visible for people to get to without having to make a post and then being directed there, making the whole process pointless.

Finally, I don't really think the popular MediaWiki works well integrated into a forum. It's quite a large powerful piece of software that isn't too pleased on being second to something equally large and powerful. Since MediaWiki offers discussion and much more built in, it takes the focus out of the forum and makes it meaningless.

Lots of thoughts from me today :D

[UserM]

If you don't mind me asking, what wiki-bridge script/program is FU using?

[SoftWareRevue]

I'm not sure. I know there's a couple around. I'll have to get up with who did the integration and find out for you.

[PinkFloyd]

I have never setup a wiki, but it looks very tempting. I've noticed that Wikis index as well as vBulletin forums do. This could be a huge asset to forums that I run and maintain.

The only downside that I see is, it looks like maintain and adding to Wikis does take some time. Something I wish I had more of.

[vtabletop]

I think that the coexistence of forums and wikis is possible and getting better.I have read about tikiwiki.org that works nicely and easy to install.Even if there are no stringent rules set for the wikis ,in my opinion the last word has to come from the facilitator of the forum.

[beamup]

I have no idea about it......sorry ...but I definately like to know about it more........

[D'Godown]

What i feel is a wiki addition to a forum is practically almost useless, because of :

1. If its an enlighting forum community, then all the info is ittelf in a forum, no need for wiki.

2. If its a culture/games/fun/timepass forum then obviously it needs no wiki.

Practically wiki is a different kind of community, forum is a different kind of community, there are efforts to combine forums and social networking, forums and blogs , etc. But they seriously dont achieve a mutual growth, either of their feature will rise at fullest and the other community feature will be almost dull. This is what i think, maybe i am very wrong.