What's this Wiki anyway?
The TRIN Wiki is a collaborative platform for members of TRIN and the broader taxonomic community.
The TRIN Wiki welcomes anyone wishing to participate or initiate new collaborative taxonomy research projects and to use TRIN's on-line collaboration and communcation tools (website, wiki, email lists, etc. ).We are particularly interested to hear your comments as we strive to make tools that are of use to the Taxonomic Community.
The TRIN Wiki is organised around specific
projects. As you browse the Wiki, you will find
projects which
vary in their
maturity and
target audience. Some contain information put together for public consumption. Others are moderated or closed spaces, in which taxonomic projects collaborate on their own business prior to it being published.
Wikis are good at capturing unstructured information quickly, in a form which can be subsequently reorganised, classified, and structured. They may look messy at times, but this is part of the cycle of information-gathering and categorisation.
Wikis provide a means for ideas to be caught, commented on and subsequently organised in a forum where all participants in a project can contribute.
You can read in detail elsewhere about
TWiki and
Wikis in general.
