Hi Peter,

I'd be happy to speak with you. I run Electowiki, which is a moderately active wiki focused on electoral reform issues: http://wiki.electorama.com/

I also used to work at RealNetworks, which has a fairly large MoinMoin deployment. For a brief period, the wiki was running on a box in my office, but became too mission critical to leave in such a fragile position.

I also thought pretty deeply about the requirements for deploying a wiki on our public helixcommunity.org site, which unfortunately never happen, due to the complexity of getting the access control right. The folks at Real now may be working on this.

Finally, I run another very nascent wiki for access control issues here: http://spectaclar.org

Rob

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:20 -0700, Peter Thoeny wrote:

Dear Mediawiki user,

Co-author Dan Woods and I are working on a book titled "Wikis in the Workplace: A Practical Guide to Collaborating, Creating Knowledge, and Sharing Information". See details on the book at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WikisInTheWorkplaceBook (FYI, although the abstract is on twiki.org, the book is not TWiki specific)

For this book we are interviewing people who are familiar with the wiki technology, so that we can write about current possibilities, limitations and future trends of wikis. We are primarily interested in learning about larger wiki deployments behind corporate firewalls.

If your Mediawiki falls into this category we would be delighted to hear from you. Interviews are typically done in a one-hour conference call. A list of questions can be supplied ahead of time. If needed we can quote anonymously or sign an NDA.

To conserve bandwidth, please reply to me only.

Best regards, Peter

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Well, I'm involved with half a dozen wikis, but none has more than a couple of dozen pages. They do however have several features that interest me.

There are a couple involving education. One on the history of personal computers in education and one on the future flavors of education, especially open education. Both are linked from www.loopcntr.org

The biggest one is at RaskinCenter.org and was converted to a wiki only lately. It even has Forums on a wiki page although I just added both a base wiki page for forum conversations which deserve condensing and editing into more readable form than a series of time ordered postings and a second path to the naked Forums without the wiki navigation bar consuming a quarter of the screen. It also has a private wiki for company business which had a large page on the design of some software. For it I constructed the same heading structure on the discussion page with two way links in every section. This permits an interested reader to pop back and forth within any section of which concerns her.

Finally, BZ Web Corp has two private wikis, one for staff and one for staff and our biggest client. The most interesting thing to me in these two is the dialog map where, in indented outline form, there are many Questions, Answers to Questions, and arguments Pro and Con for the Answers. This partially captures our detailed thoughts about the big project with our biggest client. The wikiness allows all readers to add more Qs, As, Pros, Cons, and References wherever they feel the need.

Of course, my feeling is that Wikipedia and Wiktionary are both larger wiki deployments used behind corporate firewalls.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Dick

On 2005, Oct 25, , at 17:20, Peter Thoeny wrote:

For this book we are interviewing people who are familiar with the wiki technology, so that we can write about current possibilities, limitations and future trends of wikis. We are primarily interested in learning about larger wiki deployments behind corporate firewalls.