Tips on Posting to your Wiki- Week 5

I have listed some tips on writing on our class wiki. Hopeful they will help you get started with this assignment.

Try writing on a wiki that interests you. It need not be an all-or-nothing proposition to edit a wiki. Do a few sample edits, get your feet wet a bit, get to know some of the people in a community? You will soon know whether or not that wiki is for you.

Edits may be small or large. Wikis benefit from writing, but they also benefit from simple cleanup tasks. Fix a little thing if you don't feel ready for big things yet.

Remember that your work will be published immediately. This can be immensely gratifying to some and intimidating to others. Remember, too, that your work can always be changed, either by yourself or by somebody else. It doesn't have to be perfect the first time out.

Take it from me, if you have never worked with a wiki before, it is very easy to remove current text but it is also very easy to replace that same text when you review the log history. I learned this the hard way, by deleting someone else log entree. We all make mistakes and this is the trial and error phase of this class assignment.