Hey, all,
Some of my colleagues are objecting to my desire to minimize uploading of Word documents
to our new intranet wiki. My main objection to it is that we ought to be entering
information into wiki pages so that we can take full advantage of document versioning,
talk pages, watching, etc.-y'know, the stuff that makes it a wiki...
I've been called "silly" and "arbitrary" regarding this. :)
I'm not outright forbidding posting Word documents; I'm just trying to get people
to use the wiki the way it's mean to be used. Am I being unreasonable? I even stated
that it's acceptable to load the final version of a 20-page report, or a form
that's meant to be printed out and filled out by hand-i.e., things in a final state
that do not need further editing.
Has anyone else encountered this resistance? I was most surprised that it came from
someone who uses/edits Wikipedia, which, as far as I can tell, does not support uploading
of Word docs.
Nina
Nina McHale, MA/MSLS
Assistant Professor, Web Librarian
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