A tool to help employees participate in the intranet
Wikis are these web sites where everyone can create or edit pages, and add comments at the bottom of the page. We talk a lot about it. Especially for association websites, or documentary intranets ...
Wiki: what is it?
The most famous of them is the
Wikipedia project , a
free encyclopedia (in other words, free and freely
reusable) which has proved a fairly good degree of reliability, even if its articles do not reach the level of completeness,
expertise and details of the Britannica or
the Universalis (an example of the still lighter side of
Wikipedia with the article " Law ").
Many advantages and some disadvantages
But who knows that it is relatively easy to create a wiki [ 3 ] - and even easier to create or modify a page of a wiki - or that wikis make it easy for employees to update intranets ? Moreover, the visual appearance (the "graphic chart") of the wiki can be put in the colors and logos of any organization.
The only limitations of wiki:
the syntax a little odd for the regulars of Word. So, to get fat , you have to write __gras__ at CraoWki and '' 'fat' '' at MediaWiki (see below for the syntax of MediaWiki). The advantage of this syntax is that any web browser can edit a wiki site. Wikis are independent of the software used on the authors' computers. Anyway, some wikis have a WYSIWYG text editor with Word style icons, either as standard as the Centraldesktop paid and hosted software or by adding a plug-in, like TWiki
it is essential to have a facilitator who initiates the process and maintains the dynamics of the group? This point is underlined by all the articles quoted below
the lack of hierarchy of the authors and their contributions supposes an administrator to organize after the event the articles and to structure the wiki site and its rubrics.
Wiki: how to do it?
" How to do ? You will tell me. Quick, some simple guides.
- The philosophy, the approach, the utility, the advantages, the problems:
a good synthesis: The wikis sites, new collaborative work tools / Michèle Battisti (report of a workshop organized by the ADBS on September 28, 2004 and led by François Olléon and Jean Michel), Documentalist-Information Science flight. 41 n ° 4-5 October 2004 p. 278-280
written by a documentalist for documentalists and published on the remarkable LLRX site : Using a Wiki for Documentation and Collaborative
Authoring by Michael Angeles
Blogs and wikis: You have to use them! / Gilles Balmisse, specialist in watchkeeping and knowledge management, now consultant (Knowldege Consult), Professional IT n ° 234 May 2005 p. 20 (2nd part of the article, the first one about blogs)
Wiki, the pinnacle of the collaborative / team of the Journal du Net, Journal of Management, November 2003. This article deals mainly with the development experience of two wikis at Cetelem, supervised by Charles Népote.
- Technical and practical aspects, how to install a wiki, how to use it:
Wiki In One Minute (a page of WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki site, created by Walt Cunningham, an American developer who created the first wiki software in 1995)
Wiki Getting Started FAQ : basic questions and answers about Wikis and how they work (WikiWikiWeb)
more detailed: Presentation Generic Wikis / Christophe Ducamp, with PowerPoint and PDF versions of his presentation of June 1, 2004 at the National School of Roads and Bridges
Be operational with the wiki software MediaWiki, for example to enrich or update an article in the Wikipedia encyclopedia: the rules for starting with MediaWiki and the detailed syntax for MediaWiki.
- Get started!
practice * without any danger * in ... a "sandbox", ie a training ground, for example that of Wikini wiki or that of its competitor MediaWiki!
choose your wiki thanks to Framasoft's articles on wiki software, there is a choice or with the detailed comparisons of the Wikimatrix website
If you want a wiki whose internal workings and documentation are in French, with a correct French community, and you are an informed user, it's xWiki you need
if you want a wiki for the internal needs of a company, you need password-protected wikis and preferably different levels of access (more details on our brief ):
for limited needs, with free hosting: pbwiki
TWiki : an open source wiki software, free, focused on collaborative intranets and thus finely managing access levels
If you need to know more about the creation of a wiki page or if you yourself are need it you can go for wikipedia page creators for hire and get your page created. I will suggest you to get in touch with Prowikicreators.com and start your work today.
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