Community Central:Uses of a wiki

Wikis can be used to write and edit pages on any topic. This page collects some specific ideas -- please add yours! For things Wikicities can not be used for, see what Wikicities is not. For specific reasons to use Wikicities for this, see why use Wikicities?.


 * 1) Creating a knowledge base on a specific topic (example: Creatures, Wikimac)
 * 2) Writing an FAQ
 * 3) Brainstorming
 * 4) Maintaining a calendar of local events
 * 5) Collaborative story writing (examples: fiction, Alternative History)
 * 6) Learning writing through online collaboration (example: schools)
 * 7) Communication between and within communities
 * 8) Community news and group announcements
 * 9) Comparison of products (example: Facial Cleansing Products)
 * 10) Creating user and technical documentation for software (example: Documentation)
 * 11) Creating specifications and architecture documents for software or other projects (example: Scoop)
 * 12) Creating an easily searchable, linkable, and editable website
 * 13) Creating how-tos (example: How To)
 * 14) Creating promotional material (example: Mozilla Community)
 * 15) Easy refactoring of communication on forums and mailing lists (by turning the thread mode of these discussions into a more useful document mode).
 * 16) Developing ideas and even new languages (example: conlang)
 * 17) Information and policies about a project
 * 18) Maintaining a directory of links on a particular topic
 * 19) Meeting agendas and notes for organizations
 * 20) Planning and documenting events
 * 21) Project collaboration
 * 22) Real time reports on conferences and other events
 * 23) Sharing tips and advice (example: quit smoking, Answers)
 * 24) Enriching existing text documents by editing them collaboratively and adding multimedia
 * 25) Translating documents together (example: Translation)