Wikis are great for internal knowledge management stuff, especially when an intranet is difficult to publish to or locked down to a small number of content contributors. Even easier now that there are online wikis and you don't even have to have the tech smarts (and access privileges) to install MediaWiki or something similar. Will be interesting to see how publisher friendly the new SLV intranet will be and whether we'll use the portal platform, or whether the ease and flexibility of wiki publishing will see 'subterranean' knowledgebases developed outside the intranet orbit...
Re wikis as a Web 2.0 / Library 2.0 tool, less is more. Everyone wants to build their new wikis and create a community around them, there's only so much community to go around. Better perhaps to contribute to existing ones, eg contribute to Wikipedia's 'suburbs of Melbourne' category than build our own Wikitoria, ie get our resources 'in the flow' of the majority of online users rather than expecting them to come to us. The SLV marketing department have already made a few forays into editing Wikipedia entries. Not that we can guarantee that Wikipedia will still be around in 5 years of course, or that it won't have ossified into the plaything of a small number of administrators...
Hadn't tried PBWiki before but looks pretty good. Familiar with Zoho wiki, but made a couple of edits on Zoe's draft desk wiki. I can see the fun in having the desk roster in a wiki, couple of clicks and hey presto, that inconvenient evening shift has just been transferred to one of your colleagues. Mwuhahahaha...
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Having rosters on a wiki so staff can hack in....interesting idea when one is bored!!!!
Lynette
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