[Mediawiki-l] corporate wiki: success factors?

[Frederik Dohr]

Hello there,

After reading quite a lot about WikiWikiWebs (mainly for a university paper), I'm convinced that our project team could greatly benefit from employing a wiki.
I've already convinced the project manager that we should at least give it a try (mainly by stating how it won't cost a dime). Also, I've set up a local test environment (gotta love XAMPP), mainly for getting to know the MediaWiki engine.

However, predictably, many of my colleagues are quite skeptical - and to be honest, so am I to some extent.
Now I hope to benefit from the experts' experience on this mailing list:

a) How can I motivate my colleagues to at least try it out - and hopefully realize that it might actually be a great help to them?

b) What's required in terms of basic structure? Certainly some help pages for explaining the wiki syntax (though I'll probably link to Wikipedia rather than create it from scratch), but I'm sure there are a couple of other things to increase acceptance and participation.
Due to the large variety of projects people here are working on, it would be very hard to create a comprehensive basic structure right from the start. So I'll have to rely on the users/colleagues to create a kind of self-organizing wiki.

Any input on this issue would be greatly appreciated!
(Hopefully you won't mind if I incorporate those suggestions into my paper as well.)


Thanks,

Frederik
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