I've concluded that designing a wiki is as
much if not more complicated than designing a web page.
I'm afraid I'll
have to agree there; I've realized that my initial hope
that the wiki will be self-organizing from the start was actually quite
naive....
The best way I've found for designing a useful
wiki is to look at other
wikis. Wikipedia is an awful example I think. But its so famous that
people who want to add content are motivated to learn it. That is not
the case in most offices. But there are many other wikis to look at and
get ideas from. One of my favorites is
www.cookbookwiki.com.
I agree, Wikipedia
really isn't the best example in terms of structure.
I realized this when trying to pull some content from their help section
for use in our wiki - that almost made my head spin!
(Disclaimer: I love Wikipedia and couldn't live without it.)
So I'll definitely take a good look at
cookbookwiki.com - thanks for the
tip!
-- Frederik