We're expanding our internship programs for Appropedia - for those who want to learn about wikis and make a difference at the same time. One of the programs I'm looking forward to is our web development internship - for those wanting to get experience with MediaWiki and/or WordPress and Python. The model is that we have a team with interns and a ( Read more... )

A key part of the Appropedia community's work is making available knowledge more open, and putting it into a structured knowledge bank. This work just got a bit more efficient.
Using the conversion box at Wikedbox, paste in your formatted text, and press the "wikify" button above: 
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There is an enormous amount of knowledge locked up in PDF and Word documents, which could be shared on wikis such as Appropedia, if only it could be easily converted.

Take Word documents. There are a few ways to convert them, with more or less messy results. OpenOffice 2.3 and above has an export-to-MediaWiki function, but it's broken on my machine ( Read more... )

I like the name: Crayonpedia,* an Indonesian language site creating open education resources for schools** (with some content in English). With 2000 pages already, it's got the makings of a great resource. If you know Indonesian, you can read more about Crayonpedia. (I confess I haven't read it all yet.)

I was interested to see that they have a ( Read more... )

Sydney geeks face a challenge - how to network locally using the latest web tools. SydneyTalks is shutting down. The question is, are there OpenSocial and related applications that can be used to fill the gap, and at the same time connect people more effectively?

SydneyTalks has provided a great service for some years (many thanks to Georgie and ( Read more... )

“If you want to find out what tools your staff are finding most useful at the moment, just go and see what your IT department is blocking.” - Quoted in CIO magazine on Enterprise 2.0

A lot of Web 2.0 is time-wasting in my view, but it's clearly meeting people's needs or wants. (Though I suspect it's also triggering some deep-seated addictive ( Read more... )