corporate wiki: success factors?

Oh, I completely agree its valid content, and of course I'm
not implying that wiki's will replace excel.  My point was
specifically related to the problem of getting stubborn
people to start using the wiki.

JT

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> Well, if they won't search for the answer via google,
they aren't going to search for it in the wiki.
Well, it can be quite challenging to find answers for
specific Excel issues via Google.
Plus our wiki's database would be a lot smaller than
Google's, and its content custom-tailored for frequently
recurring issues, so there wouldn't be as many irrelevant
results.
> The key is not putting up a page on how to modify a
doc.  The key is putting the doc itself in the wiki.  I know
this doesn't translate really to spreadsheets, but you get
what I'm saying.
Sure, but the workspace is polygamous; there's will always
be many different applications, instead of one app to rule
them all. And wikis certainly won't replace Excel any time
soon.
So if the doc itself is help for another app, that's valid
wiki content... 


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 Just like its sometimes hard to get people to start using a
web page
full of documentation or other information.  That's why I
think the
design challenge is similar for both web sites and wikis. 
You need
something compelling to draw people to it and to use it, and
in the case
of wikis a reason to hit the edit button.  This is more in
the realm of
art (or worse, marketing) than technology.

-Jim

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Oh, I completely agree its valid content, and of course I'm
not implying
that wiki's will replace excel.  My point was specifically
related to
the problem of getting stubborn people to start using the
wiki.

JT

----- Original Message ----
From: Frederik Dohr <fdg001gmx.net>
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:34:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] corporate wiki: success factors?


> Well, if they won't search for the answer via google,
they aren't
going to search for it in the wiki.
Well, it can be quite challenging to find answers for
specific Excel
issues via Google.
Plus our wiki's database would be a lot smaller than
Google's, and its
content custom-tailored for frequently recurring issues, so
there
wouldn't be as many irrelevant results.
> The key is not putting up a page on how to modify a
doc.  The key is
putting the doc itself in the wiki.  I know this doesn't
translate
really to spreadsheets, but you get what I'm saying.
Sure, but the workspace is polygamous; there's will always
be many
different applications, instead of one app to rule them all.
And wikis
certainly won't replace Excel any time soon.
So if the doc itself is help for another app, that's valid
wiki
content... 


-- Frederik

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