EMWCon Spring 2017/Powerpedia

Short History

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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