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1. What are Wiki Technologies?2. What is Wikipedia?3. What is the history of the Wiki?4. Advantages and benefits in the corporation?5. What are the disadvantages and problems with it?6. What types of societal, economic and technical

challenges this technology could address?7. How might a Wiki improve things for a business and

how do you get started?

Wiki

What are Wiki Technologies ?

• It’s a database

• It’s a collaboration platform

• It does not require the user to be a programmer or know HTML to use it.

What is Wikipedia ?

“THE Wiki”

• Conceived and born in January, 2001

• Put the Wiki technology platform in public eye

• It is the worlds largest FREE multilingual encyclopedia with over 3.2 million English articles.

What is the history of the Wiki ?

• Originally created in 1995

• Written by Ward Cunningham

• Originally christened ‘WikiWikiWeb’

• ‘WikiWiki’ means fast in Hawaii

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Wikis in plain EnglishWiki Collaboration

What does today's Wiki look like?

There are many forms of Wikis today:• Hybrid • Blogs and Discussion forums• Content Management Systems• Semantic Wikis• Enterprise Wikis• Personal Wikis • Mobile Wikis

What are the benefits to businesses ?

Collaboration between workgroups, divisions, HQ

Multi-user

Can be edited and updated by any authorized personnel

Does not require specialized knowledge or training

What are the benefits to businesses ?

Document revision control

Maintain revision history, comments, discussions at all levels

Retains documentation revisions for regulatory requirements

What are the benefits to businesses ?

Business methodology and knowledge retention

Published methods can be updated and refined in real time

Legacy knowledge is documented and retained in one source.

Speeds training of end users on company policy, history, culture, division practices and workgroup workflow.

What are the advantages to businesses ?

Cost – Most are free. Support – Can be purchased as needed. Ease of use – little end user training

required Increased speed of information updates Reduction in new hire training costs Reduction of paper use Reduction in travel expenses

What problems or issues exist ?

• Free Wikis do not have the Enterprise class security built into the free models. Anyone authorized can modify the content at will.

• Enterprise security is not available in any free Wiki.

• Enterprise security is available only with commercialized versions of Wikis.

• Little or no support for Microsoft SQL in all but two Wikis

What Societal, Economic & Technological challenges can this address ?

SIMS345 Wiki Presentation

How might a wiki improve things and how do you get started?

Getting Started

1. What are Wiki Technologies?2. What is Wikipedia?3. What is the history of the Wiki?4. Advantages and benefits in the corporation?5. What are the disadvantages and problems with it?6. What types of societal, economic and technical

challenges this technology could address?7. How might a Wiki improve things for a business and

how do you get started?

Wiki

Questions?