I heard through the grapevine of a blogger’s announcement that she will be conducting her research through a wiki.
I’ve been wanting to do the same thing for a while, but having some hosting space gives me the flexibility of installing my own software. I was looking at some, Mediawiki which runs Wikipedia for instance, but I don’t know if there is something that I particularly want.
What I would like is something that allows me to write or take notes, but then also allows discussion right within the page, not as in Wikipedia where the discussion is held in a separate page. This would give me the
ability to have people annotate what I was writing as I was writing it.
I think the best I will be able to do is just have a section at the bottom of each page where I want comments labeled “Comments”, and make it clear that is where I want people to write. It would be good as well to have a mechanism for there to be citation links to my work as well.
It would be a lot neater if I could have come kind of two columned thing, with the writing on one side and the comments on the other (like the layout of GAM3R 7H30RY). Any ideas?
Hi Steven:
Thanks for talking about my research project. I went with wikispaces because I could close it (seeing as it is for a grade), but will be able to open it later once the course is finished. I am using the discussion tab at the top of the page for comments, but it would be great to have a two column model. It would also be very cool if there was an imbedded system to generate instant citations in the major formats (MLA, APA, CSE, CSA, CMS, etc.).
Please stop in to the blog or the wiki and make suggestions. This is a totally new process to me, and I am taking any advice I can get :-)
August 27th, 2006, at 3:37 pm #