Hello,
While searching for a "killer app" for convincing my colleagues of the advantages of a wiki (see the thread on corporate wiki success factors), I realized that calendaring and scheduling might be a very good thing to start with. This way everyone could, for example, enter their periods of absence (e.g. vacations, out-of-office meetings etc.) in the wiki without the hassle we currently have with these issues (we're mostly using an Excel sheet for that at the moment).
However, I wonder how best to present the respective data. Using the EasyTimeline extension probably wouldn't be a good thing for starters, as its use is a little more complicated than the basic wiki syntax. A huge table might do the job, but its "source code" (i.e. wiki syntax) would probably look like a huge mess to most of my colleagues. So that leaves me with an ordinary sequential list - maybe with years and months as (sub-)headings? The whole thing might look something like this: http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Simple_Timeline
Hmm, come to think of it, a shared Excel table might actually be better then - also because it'd be easier to highlight weekends and holidays there!? What do you think of my assessment of this situation - any ideas?
Thanks a lot in advance!
-- Frederik