Do you guys use wikis?
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
I used a wiki for MyXaml documentation, and also with Pensieve[^]. I've only used OpenWiki. Marc
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
Yup, for sharing documentation, keeping notes, whatever. My employer invested in a big heavy document sharing / project management system, but frankly i don't have time for all the busywork involved - this is fast, easy to set up, and sharing a document is as simple as sending someone a URL. I use OpenWiki, as it needed to be ASP-based to run on the server back when i first set it up. I might investigate one of the .NET ones if i was doing it now, but since it's all configured and working already...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
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Yup, for sharing documentation, keeping notes, whatever. My employer invested in a big heavy document sharing / project management system, but frankly i don't have time for all the busywork involved - this is fast, easy to set up, and sharing a document is as simple as sending someone a URL. I use OpenWiki, as it needed to be ASP-based to run on the server back when i first set it up. I might investigate one of the .NET ones if i was doing it now, but since it's all configured and working already...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
What are the limitations you have run into when using a Wiki for documentation as opposed to a standard intranet site? In other words, how do I determine whether to use a wiki or a more broadly scoped content system? What are some things you guys don't like about the way most wikis are implemented?
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
I hear Wikipedia is great for looking up pron stars. Surely that's worth something to someone out there? :)
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
I started one about a year ago for me (and a few other developers) to document our entire network (servers, network equipment, software ...) along with other useful tips (troubleshooting guides, known problems)...
John
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I hear Wikipedia is great for looking up pron stars. Surely that's worth something to someone out there? :)
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog
I never tried!! :doh: I will try C. Canyon when I get home.... not that I know who that is....
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What are the limitations you have run into when using a Wiki for documentation as opposed to a standard intranet site? In other words, how do I determine whether to use a wiki or a more broadly scoped content system? What are some things you guys don't like about the way most wikis are implemented?
gantww wrote:
In other words, how do I determine whether to use a wiki or a more broadly scoped content system?
Go with the simplest thing that does what you want. For me, that's been a wiki in a surprisingly large number of areas.
gantww wrote:
What are some things you guys don't like about the way most wikis are implemented?
Frankly, the wiki syntax. Don't get me wrong, it's quite efficient and effective - but for new users, a WYSIWYG editor would be much easier to learn.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
I use QwikiWiki[^] for keeping release notes, to-do lists, and wish lists for our future releases.
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I hear Wikipedia is great for looking up pron stars. Surely that's worth something to someone out there? :)
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog
Jim Crafton wrote:
I hear Wikipedia is great for looking up
who in the world had time to write all that???? I gave up, too much stuff. Back to programming. :)
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
I find them very useful for project documentation. I even developed my own engine (see sign). :-D
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
The company I worked for has a internal wiki which the staff share and document some techniques of coding. I have contribute a few but the company policy says the articles you wrote in it, cannot be published outside; They are afraid some internal information might leak out.
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
I have used wikimapia and wikiskies. wikimapia is showing geographic image on the earth using satellite and wikiskies is showing image of sky above the earth (very useful for astronauts).
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
Yep, we're using it for our internal development projects so we can keep our users appraised of what we're doing and keep the process transparent. We're also using it to put up documentation, help files and for general collaboration. Oh and if it helps we're using MediaWiki
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
I use DokuWiki http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki for my own documentation and procedure notes - really nice and simple and easy to setup and all the info ends up in files in a sensible directory structure so if the Wiki software side of it ever blew up the info can still be found in the file system. I actually installed this on my Thecus n2100 NAS box on the LAN so it's running on my hard disk! Pre this I had bits and pieces of info in various docs. It has a great syntax highlighting feature so is good for code snippets, useful SQL etc. Probably a downside is it doesn't seem that great for linking to docs you already have - though you can do it (part of that problem is I use Firefox not IE).
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
They're great for discussing solutions to problems. The one that ankh svn uses, screw turn seems to work great http://www.screwturn.eu/MainPage.ashx Andrew
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Jim Crafton wrote:
I hear Wikipedia is great for looking up
who in the world had time to write all that???? I gave up, too much stuff. Back to programming. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Yeah some of the entries boggle the mind at how much free time people have, and that apparently, they can think of nothing better to do than write up wiki entries on p0rn stars. It does seem a bit weird :)
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
I set one up for my company and we have been using it to document projects, network configurations, company standards, etc. We still like to write our docs in Word for each stage of the lifecycle, but wiki is a quick way to share notes during development of changes, snags, etc that need to be formally documented.
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
I set one up for my company and we have been using it to document projects, network configurations, company standards, etc. We still like to write our docs in Word for each stage of the lifecycle, but wiki is a quick way to share notes during development of changes, snags, etc that need to be formally documented later on.
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If so, what for? Which one? I know they are good for collaboration, but what other interesting tasks do you use them for?
We use Confluence and have found it very useful for sharing standards and information that change frequently and hence needs a collaboration environment. Its also very useful to put tips, techniques, install guides, etc. orgnaized into spaces to make it easy for people to find content. I would still opt for a content/document management system for published sites or legal documents and so I think both have their place in an enterprise. However, if I were a small company, I'd probably just get by with a wiki.
Don Eddleman Principal Enterprise Architect Healthways