WIKI ETIQUETTE

     Wiki What Wiki Who?

    Wiki popularity in reference to the article Wiki and Blog Etiquette is becoming more and more popular. However, this does manifest some new concerns in the growing popularity and use of Wiki's in the workplace. A couple of concerns are security and information leaks both inside and outside the company. As far as managing your Wiki's Infoworld.com has a Do's and don'ts for managing IT projects with wikis article for reference.

     The Inforworld article begins by introducing a forgotten aspect of the wiki which is removing content that is no longer pertinent. This can be a huge concern when ten or a thousand people are updating, adding, and forgetting to delete old issues that have already been solved. Another issue presented in the article is wiki's can be a little difficult to learn for users who are not computer savvy. Some people are not used to having to actually look for information and they can be unwilling to give the wiki a fighting chance. Wikis are for people to share info they are not supposed to be used for project management as a CEO of a company states in the article. As previously mentioned no matter what IT guys are securing your wiki they are not secure. Setting back the wiki craze another step is the inability to share data from one source to another. Although, some wikis are taking steps to alleviate the current issue of data and device sharing.

     No matter what you perceive to be the downfalls of the wiki, the benefits can be far greater outweighing the pitfalls. That is of course you use the wikis right. As my old computer instructor always said, "The error of computing is between the chair and the keyboard."