Wiki

What is in a wiki? What are differences in wikis? First I think wikis are a great communicate tool. I think there needs to be a fair amount of planning before diving into a wiki to get the full potential out of it especially for the front page.

To me the planning begins with determining what your wiki needs are going to be. Are you doing to have just text? Hopefully, not for a wiki for a non-staff audiences but this might work for other audiences. Are you going to want to upload documents, and if yes what kind? The answers to these questions and many more will help determine what wiki engine you will want to use.

There are converters of course for going from one wiki engine to another but there might be rework involved if this is not selected correctly the first time.

Wiki's are already being used at CML quietly in different areas. I think wiki's are best for when a group needs a collaborative tool that allows access for a group of people. There are other options for this too so a wiki might not also be the best choice it depends on the group's needs. I think everyone should experiment with a wiki to get use to the markup language although most have a nice editor that makes it easy for you.