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Changing the Rules of the Game for the Benefit of the User
Document Engineering in User Experience Design
Documentation Planning and Library Design in a Web 2.0 World
Extending the Value of Content in Enterprise Systems with Web Content Management
How an Author and Editor Used a Wiki to Write a Book
Living Multiple Lives: The New Technical Communicator
Making XML Technology Accessible
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Mapping the Entire Global Content Supply Chain
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Taking Our Information Assets to the Next Level
The In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite for Microsoft Word and SharePoint
Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML and DITA
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Using Collaborative Tools for Virtual Team Management
Using Task Modeler to Streamline DITA Content Development
What Technical Communicators Need to Know about Flash
Wikis Are Wonderful, or Are They? A Real World Story of Using Wikis For User Information
Writing Reusable Content to Support Content Models
[Workshop] Moving from Unstructured Documents to Structured XML
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Session Details
How an Author and Editor Used a Wiki to Write a Book
Speaker: Stewart MaderTime: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Date: May 8
Track: Collaboration
Experience level: All levels
Room: Point Grey Room
In 2007, author and Wiki Evangelist Stewart Mader and his editors at Wiley Publishing used a wiki to write Wikipatterns: A practical guide to improving productivity and collaboration in your organization.
In this session, you will learn:
- How the book was organized on the wiki
- How authoring and editing took place on the wiki
- The evolution of a typical chapter from start to finish
- The system we developed for comments and suggested changes from the development editor
- How the wiki kept track of revision history as chapters were written and editor feedback was incorporated
- How the manuscript was kept secure by restricting access to only the author and development editor via login
Using a wiki can improve the existing publishing process by reducing reliance on email and documents, making the process more fluid and collaborative, and better tracking progress as the chapters are written. We’ll also discuss future directions for this process, including how to directly link the wiki to the production process so that the wiki can output structured data in standard XML-based architectures such as DITA.
Audience: Anyone interested in how the wiki can fit into an existing information management, collaboration, and knowledge production process will benefit from this session.
With regard to the publishing industry, we’ll talk about how the wiki can fit into the standard authoring process, so this will be of particular interest to authors, acquisition editors, development editors, production editors and managers, and publishing executives interested in streamlining and improving this process.
