A Wiki was set up for the students of Digital Media Year 2 student of their experience of the Elephant & Castle area of South London; the home of London College of Communication (part of the University of the Arts).
The class decided to let the wiki be open to the public as well as all students rather than keep it closed just for the Digital Media students. The only two people who initially oposed this consisted of the two older mature students who had not been exposed to such internet sites as wikipedia as much as the younger generations (who tend to over use this site and rarely venture to view other sources of information). I think we also assumed that people would edit it with rubbish or rudeness when in fact nobody posted anything until the deadline for the assignment started looming! Plus it does depend on the internet search ratings for the wiki to surface for the general population to see it and then want to add to the wiki themselves – maybe it has been seen but as it was so bare people probably just clicked on?)
A Wiki is ‘collaborative community Website where anyone can contribute. Since then, programmers have created many wiki-inspired programs and wiki Websites. Most of these stay true to the goal of simplicity. Wikis can be used for a large variety of tasks, from personal note-taking to collaborating online, creating an internal knowledge base, assembling an online community, and managing a traditional website. The possibilities might make wikis seem like a daunting system, but commitment to simplicity makes wiki tools a breeze’.
The wiki was created usingdokuwiki which is free to use and licenced under the GNU Genera Public License.