Frederik Dohr schrieb:
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.
Well, that is a bit off track. Why should people spent their time on an
experiment?
Rather: Use the wiki to solve a problem. If the employees share the
problem, they have an interest in solving it.
Advertise that use with presentations.
For us, it is the documentation on our IT-System (SAP) with huge amounts
of self devoloped coding. It is rather difficult to retrieve information
on projects more than two years ago.
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.
no. you need to give some direction in the beginning. And you need to
have some kind of means to force people to use the wiki.
We startet with a simple template for the interfaces to and from our
system. It is fairly easy to fill a template article, so the knowledge
on how to use the wiki can be very little. Small steps in the beginning.
Then a couple people should find it interesting or rewarding to work in
a wiki. Encourage that and help them solve their problems. people talk
with another.
Teach the use and the possibilities of the wiki. Half a day is short but
a good starter.
Make the wiki mandatory for certain types of information. Mostly it is
limited time of the workers, to put down that information. have someone
help them with it.
regards,
Gunter