[WikiEN-l] What Knol may actually be: enterprise wiki substitute

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Yes but also a canonical example of where they can't get the distributed
computing effect since they are not allowed to edit from home for security
reasons.

Quoting Nathan Awrich <nawrich at gmail.com>:

> 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 at yale.edu> wrote:
>> Quoting Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > On Dec 14, 2007 4:03 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at 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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