List of Wikia wikis - The Wiki Wiki - a wiki about wikis from Wikia. HOW TO: Use Wikis for Business Projects. Jeff Hobbs is Director of Engineering at ActiveState and works on Workspace and dynamic languages. He blogs occasionally at blogs.activestate.com. One of the best web tools available to businesses for enabling teamwork and collaboration is the wiki. Few things speak more to staying in the flow of one's work than just clicking "Edit This Page" where you see something that needs to be written or re-written. Though Wikis have been around since the 90s, their potential for business collaboration has made them more popular in the business world over the past few years. While a wiki can let project documentation grow organically as a project unfolds, it is like any tool and needs to be used the right way to get the most out of it.
If you're thinking about using a wiki in your team's toolkit for the first time, keeping a few points in mind will help everyone get up and running without tripping over the changes that the wiki way brings to project documentation. A Culture Shift Seed the Wiki. 25 Tips for a Better Wiki Deployment. Android Apple IT Management Networking More Slide Shows Video Blogs Research Center Small Business Virtualization Database Developer PC Hardware Servers eWEEKChat eWEEK at 30 Big Data Analytics Cloud Backup Next Generation Firewall Enterprise Apps / 25 Tips for a Better Wiki Deployment 25 Tips for a Better Wiki Deployment By eweek | Posted 2007-11-21 Email Print 0 0Google +0 0 Here are some hard-won lessons learned from those who have implemented wikis at their organizations. 1 of 28 prev next Submit a Comment There are no comments for this article yet.
Manage your Newsletters: Login Register Property of Quinstreet Enterprise. Terms of Service | Licensing & Reprints | Privacy Policy | AdvertiseCopyright 2014 QuinStreet Inc. Copyright 2013 Quinstreet Inc. ShareThis Copy and Paste. WikiMatrix - Compare them all. Enterprise Wiki Success Story from Janssen-Cilag. Here is another cross post from my FASTForward look at enterprise success stories.
Janssen-Cilag is an Australian pharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. It was using a static HTML site for an intranet. Called InfoDownUnder, it was originally developed in 2001. Some content was out of date and there was no search capability. Trust in the system was low and demand for change was high. Nathan Wallace, in the CIO at Janssen-Cilag was progessive in his vision and suggested the organization implement a wiki as their intranet. After a successful pilot, Nathan obtained approval to replace the existing intranet with a wiki. Nathan wrote, “our contributions per month has continued to grow since launch. He went on to add, “Business information that was previously scattered in email (e.g. It is great to see these Enterprise 2.0 success stories continue to accumulate. Wikis versus Knowledge Management: Enterp.
Now you can say that this is apples and oranges and there is certainly some truth to this thought. However, many of the people who implemented knowledge management are now looking to implement wikis. What can they learn from their past experiences and what should they unlearn? I recently read, Stewart Mader’s excellent book, Wikipatterns . You can find a good general review of the book in this blog, see wikipatterns – The First Enterprise 2.0 Playbook by Jevon MacDonald . Parts of Stewart’s book took me back ten or more years ago to promoting knowledge management best practices.
I found it interesting to reflect on the differences and similarities between a top down system that required bottom up support and participation (aka KM) and a system that requires bottom up support and participation and offers a bottom up structure (aka wiki). Now you might say that a wiki is a tool and KM is an approach. Wikipatterns Comments – Part One – Wiki Uses vs KM. What Is Wiki. Sites using MediaWiki. Sites using MediaWiki Besides Wikimedia sister projects, many other sites exist that are using MediaWiki engine.
Such sites based on our software generally display the Powered by icon near the bottom right corner of their pages. See navigation on the right for the collection. It is divided into several lists for the languages the wikis are written in or provided for. New entries Feel free to add your site to the appropriate language list (select your language from the list on the right first).If there is no list for your language yet, add it on the talk page. ;Title - [ example.org] :Short description See also Wikis by host.