Possible Uses of iskWiki!

This page outlines possible ways in which iskWiki! can be used.

Uses for Everyone at UP

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• a community portal
• a means to update the community
• university history, facts and figures
• biographical information on important UP people
• archival of UP event-related materials (posters, audio and video clips, etc)

Uses for Students

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• information on student groups
• information on student sponsored events
• documentation for group projects
• archival of student theses

Uses for Faculty

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• a collaborative environment for class projects
• showcase of class output (photo gallery, essays, video projects and so on)
• publication of research and teaching interests
• publication of abstracts, pre-prints, reports
• platform for collaborative writing with colleagues (the faculty may choose when and which part to publish)

Artists

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• documentation of artistic processes and products
• archiving of multimedia output

Uses for Researchers

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• profile of research projects
• update on research progress to invite open collaboration and feedback
• work together on a document, and restrict public access before you're ready to share it
• project documentation. While findings may eventually end up as publication or report to funders, a good deal of useful materials that are not included in final reports or publications need to archived or shared with colleagues.
• archival of data sets

Uses for University Administrators

• platform for university-wide collaboration
• codification of administrative roles and functions
• documentation of "institutional memories"
• formulation of operations manual
• dissemination of university policies
• publication of updates, newsletters
• quick or on-the-fly aggregation of data (proof of concept: list of publications from some faculty)
• quickly compile curricular programs (see example)

When iskWiki! is not for you

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• not a glamour page for your cat
• not a platform for blogging
• not for twittering

See Also

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• FAQs