Writing Wikily

Wikis are social writing environments. They help groups craft pages of content that include useful links connecting those pages, and also links to outside artifacts.

Writing for a wiki requires a few shifts of thinking, including:

• Deciding how much text constitutes a page, a process I call "Nuggetization"
• Writing for re-use, so one page/Nugget can contribute to the broader web of ideas
• Setting norms for the wiki, from tone and Nugget size to protocols for links, etc.
• Adding metadata in useful ways.

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