Wikipatterns

Acknowledgments

No book is ever really written by one person. I'd like to thank the following people for listening to me talk incessantly about the promise and excitement of wikis, encouraging me to go one step further and write down everything I've been saying for the past several years, and contributing some of the best case studies and examples of wiki use I've seen yet.

I had the great fortune of making a connection with Atlassian in 2006 and it turned out to be one of the most important milestones in both my previous book, Using Wiki in Education (wikiineducation.com), and this project. Several people at Atlassian deserve special thanks for their support, involvement, and encouragement of this project.

Jon Silvers, Atlassian's Director of Online Marketing, is one of those rare people who gives generously of his time, expertise, and effort, and expects little fanfare in return. Back in 2006, when I told Jon I was putting together a book on the uses of wiki in education, he put me in touch with several people who ended up contributing chapters, arranged for Atlassian to contribute a copy of Confluence so I could have development of the book take place on a wiki, and arranged for Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian's co-Founder, to write a foreword that helped give people a big picture sense of where the wiki idea came from and how it impacts education.

Not long after that book was finished, Jon gave me the opportunity I'd dreamt of — a chance to help a much broader audience realize the ...