Wikitox was created by Andrew Dawson in an effort to set up a teaching resource for the management of acute poisoning, a major health problem in the developing world. After a colleague mentioned that he did not have time to create teaching material for his course, Andrew decided to take on this project and chose […]

Robin Phares and Kathy Korty, of the Edgewood City Schools, were introduced to Wikispaces in a class on technology in the classroom. After recognizing the potential of using wikis in the classroom, they set up a training session for every teacher in their district, and began using wikis to facilitate communication between students, parents, and […]

We’re proud to support an effort that’s just launched today in the wiki world, the Universal Edit Button. The Universal Edit Button is a way for your browser to tell you when a page is editable, similar in spirit to the icon browsers show when an RSS feed is available for a page. […]

Early last week, we hit a big milestone at Wikispaces: 1 million registered users. We now have 1,028,902 members and 433,863 wikis created on our platform! We’re also seeing fast growth in traffic and activity across the site, with millions of unique visitors coming every month to view and create content.
Needless to say, […]

There’s a great wiki event going on this weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area, Recent Changes Camp 2008. RCC is a free event where wiki organizers, members, and those interested in the intersection of community and technology can share their experiences, run demonstrations, and work hands-on with wiki and community tools.
RecentChangesCamp is being […]

March marks our third birthday here at Wikispaces, a time for reflecting on where we’ve been and where we’re going. First, we’re tremendously grateful to the hundreds of thousands of passionate members of our community who have taken the time to get to know and use our service, tell us how they feel about what […]

Michele Haiken’s class, an elective for 7th and 8th graders on the history of rock and roll music, first began using Wikispaces after being introduced to it from a school computer coordinator. For their first project, they created a Webquest about the 1980’s rock and roll scene. “Students were required to research about music […]

Suryaveer Singh, a geography teacher in Delhi, India learned about wikis from Shiksha India, an NGO which promotes technology for the improvement of education. In July 2007, Suryaveer joined Wikispaces and begin a classroom wiki for his 15-16 year-old students. “Most of my students do not have Internet connection at home or are […]

Students at Taunton’s College in Southampton, UK are using Wikispaces as a managerial and communications platform for their new charity, the Panini Project. These students, ages 16-19, are collecting football (or soccer) jerseys from the English Premiership teams to send to Tanzania football teams. They started the wiki a few weeks ago and […]

Claude Almansi is a long-time Wikispaces user. Her space, “Noi Media” or “We Media,” uses Wikispaces to collaborate with people interested in new media in Italian, English, and German. It also brings together the other tools they use, such as their blog and their podcasts.
Claude pointed us to her space’s lobbying operation for disabled people’s […]