CAMPUS WIKI ANURAG MISRA DURGESH DEEP Whats a Wiki? A wiki is a - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

campus wiki
SMART_READER_LITE
LIVE PREVIEW

CAMPUS WIKI ANURAG MISRA DURGESH DEEP Whats a Wiki? A wiki is a - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

CAMPUS WIKI ANURAG MISRA DURGESH DEEP Whats a Wiki? A wiki is a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove or otherwise edit and change most available content In effect, a wiki is actually a very simple,


slide-1
SLIDE 1

CAMPUS WIKI

ANURAG MISRA DURGESH DEEP

slide-2
SLIDE 2

What’s a Wiki?

  • A “wiki” is a type of website that allows users to easily

add, remove or otherwise edit and change most available content

  • In effect, a wiki is actually a very simple, easy-to-use

user-maintained database for searching and creating information

  • Wikis are generally designed with the philosophy of

making it easy to correct mistakes

slide-3
SLIDE 3

Work with Benefits

  • Wikis help young people develop “writing skills and social

skills by learning about group consensus and compromise—all the virtues you need to be a reasonable and productive member of society”

  • Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
slide-4
SLIDE 4

Work with Benefits

  • The media is controlled by people who have the resources

to control it,” he says. “Wikis show that all of us have an equal opportunity to contribute to knowledge”

  • Andy Garvin, head of the Digital Divide Network
slide-5
SLIDE 5

WIKI TEMPLATE

  • TASK:
  • Describe Food Joints in IIT Kanpur
slide-6
SLIDE 6

Approach to the Problem

  • Brute Force Method
  • Collect all the information on the required subject
  • Structure the data into categories
  • Workout the article in html or wiki syntax
  • Share the article with your friends so that they can give

valuable input and commit changes

slide-7
SLIDE 7

Approach to the Problem

  • Dynamic Method
  • Write the complete article using available information using

html or wiki syntax

  • Update and change the article with inflow of more

information

  • Cross check the article against incoming citations
  • Periodically share and discuss the article with friends for

valuable input

slide-8
SLIDE 8

Approach to the Problem

  • The example we are going demonstrate took the ‘Dynamic

Method’ as the basic article was put up initially and then contents added

slide-9
SLIDE 9

Key Points

  • Name of the food joints and their location
  • Timing of opening/closing
  • Menu offered
  • Quality of food and overall experience (strongly dislike, dislike,

neutral, like, strongly recommend)

  • The reason of inclusion and its’ relative importance
  • Miscellaneous Comments
slide-10
SLIDE 10

Initial Article

  • The initial wiki-article presented the previous week and it’s

basic features are as follows

slide-11
SLIDE 11
slide-12
SLIDE 12

Basic features of the initial article

  • Content Errors
  • Linguistic Errors
  • Logical Errors
  • Incomplete Information
  • Improperly structured
  • Not in required html or wiki syntax
slide-13
SLIDE 13

Content Error

“Apart from restaurant, there is a bakery that sells cakes, biscuits, pizzas…..” VS “Apart from the restaurant, there is a bakery shop at the Shopping Center that sells cakes, biscuits, pizzas……”

slide-14
SLIDE 14

Content Error

“You can find all types of parathas here, with prices

ranging from half a cent to a few hundred bucks”

VS “You can find parathas here with lots of different

fillings, ranging from traditional Indian parathas like aloo paratha to Spanish, Italian and Mexican parathas, with prices ranging from fifty rupees to three hundred rupees”

slide-15
SLIDE 15

Linguistic Errors

  • Missing a lot of full stops after passage completion
  • Expressions like
  • “prices ranging from half a cent to a few hundred bucks”

(previously discussed, unclear expression)

  • “out of which 2 shops are currently run by Kathi ” (should

avoid using numerals, better write two)

slide-16
SLIDE 16

Logical Errors

  • Expressions like:
  • “CCD is a very good place for intellectuals and couples who want to

spent some quality time”

  • “The service in Campus Restaurant is not good, but if your are a little

patient you can probably manage with it”

slide-17
SLIDE 17

Incomplete Information

  • No mention of timings of opening/closing
  • No mention of the menu of the place
  • No mention of the overall environment and experience of the

place

  • No images of the various food joints
  • Lacking basic information about a few shops included
slide-18
SLIDE 18

Improved version of the article

Explicit mention of the time

slide-19
SLIDE 19

Improved version of the article

Explicit mention of the menu of the different food joints

slide-20
SLIDE 20

Improved version of the article

Give a pic of the food joint wherever possible

slide-21
SLIDE 21

Improved version of the article

Including more places like CSE Canteen, Hot n Cold , messes, etc;

slide-22
SLIDE 22

Improved version of the article

Adding extra pieces of information wherever possible

slide-23
SLIDE 23

Improved version of the article

Structured Content

slide-24
SLIDE 24

THAT’S ALL FOLKS

  • Special thanks to Akshat Bhatnagar for adding in valuable inputs, and

editing my initial final submission. Enjoying the spirit of Wiki!