How does it work?
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Entrepedia is a collaborative workspace for the local and international entrepreneurial community. You can access all information freely.
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How Does it Work?
As registered user you can also edit existing content and create new pages, as well as leave comments on articles. You can set up your own user page so other users can see your contributions and get in touch with you directly.
Entrepedia is based on Mediawiki, the same system that Wikipedia utilises, thus the same editing and formatting rules apply. No knowledge of HTML is needed, just simple wiki markup. Try out editing in the Sandbox!
Please refer to the Mediawiki Help for more detailed information than provided in the Entrepedia How To and Guides.
Why Should I Use It?
The key aim of Entrepedia is to provide entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship educators with a common collaborative space to share their knowledge in order to offer students a rich database of information needed to start a business. It encourages a lively environment of changing content and discussion to keep the information up-to-date and precise.
If you are a student, Entrepedia is your starting point to finding out how to start a business where you are; giving you ideas and inspiration, linking you with support and expert and offering detailed guides on the process of setting up a company.
If you are an entrepreneur, Entrepedia allows you to share tips and experiences with fellow entrepreneurs locally and world-wide; you can reach out to students and universities and engage in discussion with other experts.
If you are an educator, Entrepedia provides you with a platform to present and share your knowledge; you can offer your students an up-to-date and thorough resource and discuss practical experience with entrepreneurs.
What is a Wiki?
A wiki is a website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. It is a collaboration which allows users to edit, amend and create documents which are 'live' for other users to see and be edited. A wiki is focused on simplicity so that more effort can be placed on content. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki and WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". One of the best-known wikis is Wikipedia.
What it is
Did you know that "wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian? A wiki is a web tool invented by Ward Cunningham in 1994 that allows anyone to add content and anyone to edit it, allowing several people to write, edit, delete and rewrite content on the same page. It is good for collaborative projects - subject knowledge sharing, administrative collaboration, course based teaching and learning - and is intended to be simple so you can focus on the writing, not the technical mechanics and syntax. In fact, no HTML know-how is required as the wiki markup uses a simple set of commands.
What it isn't
A wiki is not like email: you may write things, but in a wiki your words don't belong just to you or even stay where you put them. A wiki is not like a discussion board: it is not about everyone speaking in turn. A wiki is not like a blog: your point of view matters, but mostly as food for thought.
Most important: you can't mess it up! Any pages can be fixed so be brave and relax
