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Summary

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 11 months ago

to summarize...

Wiki tools are in their infancy.

CVS and its kin, which are tools by geeks and for geeks, have been in development for 20 years and are still undergoing rapid evolution! Witness Subversion, Perforce, arch, Source Safe, and BitKeeper in the past few years and git and Codeville in the last year alone. So if code management tools are themselves far from mature and wiki tools are playing catch-up to these tools, then what we're seeing now with wikis is far from a mature solution - which may be as much as decades out. There will be a lot of experimentation and failures along the way!

Sharing is good.

Wikipedia wouldn't work if people weren't good. But people are good, and fundamentally many more people want to help chip in or fix something than want to destroy it. Opening up processes for multiple editors is a win for everyone.

Any time you send out an email asking for edits, you should be using a wiki.

Almost everyone has had to merge in multiple comments to a document before. This is tedious and political. Don't be a DocumentMaster. Put it in a wiki and let folks work it out.

Every group needs a wiki.

Whether it'll be called a "wiki" or not, every modern group will have a collaborative editing solution that will allow a group to easily come to collective conclusions. This does away with DocumentMasters and creates a culture of fully inclusive participation.

Nobody knows everything, but everyone knows something.

Questions?

This wiki doesn't seem to be creating collaboration. Would you say that after 10 months or so of inactivity it is really not the answer? People don't want to come in and change something unless they own it. Comment is fine, but to take ownership to the extent that one must remove someone else's ideas - what of plagiarism now? In fact authorship and ownership of intellectual property is dead in the water with a wiki because I don't know if you are the original creator of this text or not.

I'm not convinced that a wiki is as good as it seems. There is too much technology muddying the water and some people get really demoralized when they think they have to conquer too much.

I read your comment about blogs and tend to agree - echo chambers - and I think Wikis are much the same.