A Brief, Suggestive List of Public Wikis:

The new CompFAQs wiki, and extension of CompPile: http://comppile.tamucc.edu/wiki/CompFAQs/Home This is a password-protected wiki dedicated to collaboratively-authored responses to recurring questions about teaching in and administering writing programs.

In, or about, Academic courses:

-A course in Blogs and Wikis from Bemidji State University by M. C. Morgan: http://ferret.bemidjistate.edu/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsandwiki.pl?Entry_Point

-A course in Ecologies of Rhetoric at Penn State, by Richard Doyle:
http://pbl.ist.psu.edu/cgi-bin/analog.pl?RhetoricalEcologies

-And Penn State’s pilot program in wiki-based composition courses: http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/?q=node/9

-A Romantic literature course at Bowdoin, by Mark Phillipson : http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/snipsnap/eng242-s05/space/start

Some other wikis:

-Wikipedia, of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

-MeatballWiki: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MeatballWiki “Meatball is a community of active practitioners striving to teach each other how to organize people using online tools. Members here are either community managers or are building supporting tools”

-The WikiWikiWeb, aka Ward’s Wiki: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki This is the original wiki, Its focus is software patterns, but it is notable for many reasons, including the depth of meta-discourse and reflection about wiki discourse, as well as its refusal to become more like a typical web site.

-Wikifish is a project Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design, and Construction: http://seedwiki.com/wiki/wikifish/wikifish.cfm

-A community-maintained Guide to London: http://london.openguides.org/

-A wiki for PR professionals; http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php

-An Adult Literacy Education wiki: http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Main_Page

-A Mozilla help-site for Firefox users (and users of other Mozilla programs): http://www.moztips.com/wiki/

-A Tolkien wiki: http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi

-SwitchWiki purports to be a list of every public wiki: http://www.worldwidewiki.net/wiki/SwitchWiki




Some Current Rhet/Comp Wikis

Teaching Composition






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