Saturday, April 5, 2008

Thing 10

Wikis are a really great tool. We have one set up for our staff intranet and allow anyone to edit once they have their supervisor's permission and take a short instruction session on how to edit it and add content. Ours is restricted to on campus use and registered users.
While it is fairly easy to edit pages, setting them up and formatting them can be tricky. Wikis do not use all standard html code and users need to learn some different formatting codes. On the other hand, allowing more people to edit gives them a sense of ownership and collaboration. I think the content gets updated more frequently and is more relevant.

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