about wikis

i’ve been running a small check (afraid to call it a research) on how wikis can affect/improve communication processes for companies, enhance collaboration and consolidate files and information versions.

Here are some of the most interesting articles i have found (i’ll be updating it as i continue my check)

case studies:

• Lost Boys and TWiki


• Avenue A | Razorfish

examples:

• Nokia and Vodafone Share Ideas – ShareIdeas.org is an online community and a wiki for sharing ideas on how to use mobile communications for social and environmental benefits.


• Microformats – Microformats are a way of adding simple markup to human-readable data items such as events, contact details or locations, on web pages, so that the information in them can be extracted by software and indexed, searched for, saved, cross-referenced or combined.


• Lussumo Documentation – This wiki contains documentation for Lussumo software like Vanilla and the Filebrowser.


• Freebase – Freebase is an open shared database of the world’s knowledge

articles:

• Why people don’t use collaborative tools?


• Wiki Design Considerations

trivia:

• Interesting article on the wiki of the creator of the wikiwiki