Depends on if the management culture promotes it to enough extent. The
best example in my opinion has to be Intellipedia - an enormous volume
of knowledge, harnessed to solve major problems of synthesis in a
community with a huge but distributed pool of intellectual firepower.
On Dec 14, 2007 8:43 PM, <joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu> wrote:
Quoting Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Dec 14, 2007 4:03 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(I'm a *tremendous* fan of office wikis. Best
idea ever IMO.)
I love them, but I also find it nigh-on impossible to fight the
corporate need to CONTROL them in useless ways. They tend to want
complicated permissions structures and stuff like that which end up
ruining the wiki idea under a pile of red tape.
-Matt
There's another serious problem: public wikis work great because they
harness to
a large extent what would be procrastination time. In essence, Wikipedia is a
[[distributed computing]] system using human brains as the substrate.{{or}}.
People are less inclined to work on office wikis in their free time. So one is
using up resources that would get used productively anyways. There might be
other advantages but the primary advantage of open-wikis is substantially
curtailed.
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