EMWCon Spring 2017/Powerpedia
Powerpedia
Presenter | Tom O'Neill | ||
Event | Enterprise MediaWiki Conference (EMWCon) Spring 2017 | ||
Date and time | Wednesday 8 March 2017/2:45 PM EST | ||
Reference | https://www.energy.gov/cio/articles/powerpedia-using-technology-increase-transparency |
Powerpedia is a private wiki that is only accessible from within the DOE internal network at: https://powerpedia.energy.gov/.
Short History
edit- October 20, 2009 - Powerpedia Established
- January 27, 2010 – Approved by the Secretary of Energy
- June 2011 – Most DOE facilities can view and edit the wiki
- May 30, 2014 – The wiki was viewed the two millionth time
- November 2014 – The Powerpedia Games, an editing competition launched, encouraged employee involvement
- December 15, 2014 – An editor made the 200,000 edit
- February 23, 2015 – Formal 5th Birthday celebration in DOE’s main auditorium
- April 2015 – Mobile Front End added
- October 2015 – Content Portals added
- March 2016 – 3 Million views
- June 2016 – 250,000 edit
- January 2017 – Add interactive maps
Why Powerpedia
edit- No unifying platform for the DOE Enterprise
- The 13,000 Federal employees and 90,000 contractors are geographic separated across more than half of the United States
- Increase transparency and accountability
- Improving communication and coordination between DOE organizations
- Connect headquarters, national labs, production offices, power marketing administrations, site office, etc. in one collaboration space
- Fostered the transfer of knowledge
- Average person changes jobs ten to fifteen times
- Enables continuity across political transitions
- Making information widely available where it can benefit from Department-wide peer review rather than be trapped in information silos
Restrictions
edit- Solely for authorized internal use by Department of Energy employees and contractors
- Can be read and edited by any DOE employee or contractor
- Accessible at all DOE headquarters and field sites
- Non-public but also Non-sensitive
- No Personally identifiable information
- No Classified
- No Procurement Sensitive info
- No deletion of pages by editors
- No anonymous posting
- Wide audience
- Follow Three Core Principles
- Work at the broadest possible audience
- Think Topically, Not Organizationally
- Replace Existing Processes
Accountability Features
edit- Individuals need to have an account in order to make changes to Powerpedia
- To create an account, you must use an official DOE email address. The email address needs to be confirmed before the person can make any edits.
- Every edit is tied to an individual editor in three places (Recent changes, the article's history, and the editor's user contributions)
- Email notification enabled for items on editor’s Watchlist
- Every edit can be undone by any editor. The change being undone is still preserved in the article history.
- Every version of every article can be seen in the article's history.
Basic Concepts
edit- Powerpedia is organized by topic. The easiest way to find information on a topic is through searching or by following a link from a related topic article.
- Powerpedia articles, as much as possible, should link to related Powerpedia articles.
- No one owns any article in Powerpedia. Since any editor can improve the contents of a page (fixing grammar, adding a link, etc.), every editor is encouraged to change articles when they see a way it can be improved.
- Every edit is tied to an individual editor.
- Every version of every article can be seen in the Article history.
- Any change can be un-done by any editor.
- Be Bold in editing! - Since there is a complete version history and it is easy to revert to previous versions, the wiki cannot really be damaged by any editor.
- Articles are never finished because the Department is continually evolving and changing.
In Short, Powerpedia offers
edit- A practical and easy way for individuals and organizations at DOE to:
- Reach more people, more effectively and more efficiently
- Work topically, not organizationally
- Move away from share drives, email, and other information silos as stores of knowledge
- Avoid duplicating content
- Learn and explore collaboration tools in a non-public environment
Statistics
edit- 3.5 Million views
- 48k total pages
- 9k articles
- 14k file pages
- 1,600 discussion pages
- 270k edits
- 3,900 registered editors
- Over 20 editors with over 1,000 edits
- Last 90 days highs
- 308 edits in one day
- 5,963 views
- 164 active editors
Community
edit- Powerpedia Working Group
- Meets Bi-Weekly using a Web Conferencing tool
- Ongoing education of features not covered in basic training
- Regular discussion on possible improvements/developments so the wiki can better serve the community
- Powerpedia Ambassadors
- Personalize Powerpedia by being a face of Powerpedia in their organization
- Help to coordinate Powerpedia promotional activities in their office
- Powerpedia Advisory Board
- Core group that provides advice on the enhancement and development of the wiki
- Limited to those selected by the Lead Powerpedia Curator
- Weekly Basic Training
- Held using a Web Conferencing tool
- New Editors are invited
- Prominently promoted on Main Page
Enhancements
edit- Labeled Section Transclusion
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Master Point of Contact lists
- Portals
- Main page
- Occupational medicine
- Maps
- Beginning with Facilities
- Collection
- Creating wiki version of Manuals
- Dynamic Page List
- Used extensively in our dashboard
- Mobile Frontend
- Multi Boilerplate
- Many new page templates
- Quiz
Social enhancements
edit- Article Feedback Tool
- Reader can add comments/suggestions
- Don’t have to create an account
- Notification tool
- Better highlight User talk page messages
- Mention capability
- Thank constructive edits
- Who Is Watching
- Private Wiki so no need for privacy
- Enhanced awareness of those interested in subjects
- Contribution Scores
- User page badge
- One of dozens of Powerpedia badges
- Discussion pages
- Tradition wiki talk pages
Goals
edit- Grow the editing community, especially those willing to help garden
- Have multiple Powerpedia Ambassadors for each organization
- Install Visual Editor
- Move search to Elastic with the CirrusSearch extension
- Have an article on every topic related to DOE and its research with active participation of scientists/engineers in the labs
Federal MediaWiki Demonstration and Discussion Group
edit- Grew out of a discussion from WikiMania 2012
- Limited to those working with MediaWiki in the U.S. Federal Government space
- Opportunity to learn from each other, demonstrate our wikis, and discuss common issues
- Led directly to adding Mobile Front End and Portals to Powerpedia
Wish list
edit- Improved ways to manage user accounts
- Have a directory of bot scripts that would be useful for enterprise wikis
- Automate work using the bots, such as
- Develop a bot that identifies duplicate user accounts
- Add categories to uncategorized files based on upload files extension
- Wikify pages based on a manually generated list of nouns
- Provide an easy way to view all redirect
- Manage/rename categories to another category
- Help with creating/organizing navboxes, portals, categories, etc.
- Look for keywords in organization RSS feeds and add a link to article in the relevant wiki article
- Make is easier for Enterprise wikis to use the API