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Back in 2005 I began playing around with wikis, trying to discover which one best suited my needs. \u00a0Over the intervening years I’ve enjoyed watching the different platforms mature. Now that I am a technology coordinator, my criteria have changed because I need an enterprise-level wiki solution.<\/p>\n
Before I started this job, I don’t think I even knew what enterprise-level wiki solution <\/em>meant so let me explain. \u00a0If I only need a wiki for myself or a small group of people, my needs are tremendously different than if I need to be able to create tens, even hundreds of wikis that will be edited by thousands of people. \u00a0All of a sudden the ease with which you can create and manage accounts \u00a0and wikis becomes important.<\/p>\n Other considerations had to do with advertisements, privacy settings, and whether or not students needed an email address to have an account. \u00a0Drill down control is also important. \u00a0It would be nice to be able to set permissions at the page level rather than at just the wiki level. \u00a0That way, different groups could have full rights to edit some pages and few or no rights to edit other pages.<\/p>\n I’ve been using WetPaint<\/a>, Wikispaces<\/a> and PB Works<\/a> for years. \u00a0I’ve used all three with students and with staff. \u00a0Wetpaint is still my favorite in terms of how it looks, the templates it has, and how well the tables work. \u00a0Until this term, we have been using it for our parent conference sign ups and it has worked exceptionally well.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, they don’t offer corporate plans. \u00a0If we want ad-free wikis we’d need to pay for each one separately, and there is no way to administer them centrally. \u00a0Wetpaint used to offer free ad-free wikis for K-12 use but they quit doing that.\u00a0We have no way to create accounts for children.They also were mis-applying the COPPA rules and shut down one of my teachers’ wikis even though the parents created the accounts, not the children.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n We did not want to host the wiki ourselves so that left only Wikispaces and PB Works as options. \u00a0Each has some nifty features that the other lacks. \u00a0Neither is as pretty as Wetpaint and the tables aren’t quite as nice, but they can meet our needs. \u00a0In the end, it felt like a roll of the dice but we went with Wikispaces since they were going to give us more a bit more for our money. Since then PB Works has introduced a new rate for schools so each are equally viable. You can view the Wikispaces plans here<\/a> and the PB Works ones here<\/a>.<\/p>\n We are due to start parent conference sign up next week, so we had to quickly shift the conference wiki from Wetpaint to our new Wikispaces.net account. \u00a0Unlike Edublogs, Wikispaces doesn’t send you a nifty manual to get you started after they take your payment. \u00a0We had to stumble our way through setting it up. \u00a0In my next blog<\/span> a future post I’ll share with you what we have learned so far.<\/p>\n \n Back in 2005 I began playing around with wikis, trying to discover which one best suited my needs. Over the intervening years I’ve enjoyed watching the different platforms mature. Now that I am a technology coordinator, my criteria have changed because I need an enterprise-level wiki solution.<\/p>\n Before I started this job, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Photo Credits:\u00a0Untitled<\/em> by Goose frabaaa<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"