{"id":331,"date":"2008-07-16T13:39:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=331"},"modified":"2008-07-16T13:56:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T20:56:55","slug":"using-wikis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/07\/using-wikis\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Wikis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of wikis, the whole concept of col\u00adlab\u00ador\u00adat\u00adive author\u00ading, is so enti\u00adcing that it seems like it should be the default (at least if you don\u2019t need more struc\u00adtured markup behind it), even in the enter\u00adprise. At least, that\u2019s what I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/gilbane.com\/gilbane_report.pl\/104\/Blogs_amp_Wikis_Technologies_for_Enterprise_Applications.html\">some years ago<\/a>. People still like to send around office doc\u00adu\u00adments with revi\u00adsion mark\u00ading turned on, how\u00adever, rather than fully embrace the Brave New&nbsp;World.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurendw\/statuses\/845040972\">tweeted<\/a> that one prob\u00adlem is likely the off\u00adline issues (can\u00ad\u2019t read the doc\u00adu\u00adment on the air\u00adplane unless I\u2019ve saved a copy first); <a href=\"http:\/\/times.usefulinc.com\/\">Edd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edd\/statuses\/845046928\">added<\/a> the \u201clost doc\u00adu\u00adment\u201d prob\u00adlem where you can eas\u00adily lose a doc\u00adu\u00adment when someone deletes the link to it, and you nev\u00ader find it again. Spam, as <a href=\"http:\/\/norman.walsh.name\/\">Norm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ndw\/statuses\/845182066\">poin\u00adted out<\/a>, is anoth\u00ader issue on the inter\u00adnet, though it should\u00adn\u2019t be on the intranet.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s the issue of wiki markup, which some people detest. One pro\u00adject I\u2019m work\u00ading on for Sun is using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/\">Medi\u00adaWiki<\/a>, for which you can export a doc\u00adu\u00adment from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">Open\u00adOf\u00adfice<\/a>, so that helps with at least get\u00adting the first draft of the doc\u00adu\u00adment into the sys\u00adtem. There\u2019s still the update prob\u00adlem; I gath\u00ader that is slated for a future release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/extensions.services.openoffice.org\/project\/wikipublisher\">wiki pub\u00adlish\u00ader exten\u00adsion<\/a>. When that works, I hope it will make it easi\u00ader to talk cer\u00adtain mem\u00adbers of my team at Sun into using the sys\u00adtem will\u00adingly &lt;grin&gt;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of wikis, the whole concept of col\u00adlab\u00ador\u00adat\u00adive author\u00ading, is so enti\u00adcing that it seems like it should be the default (at least if you don\u2019t need more struc\u00adtured markup behind it), even in the enter\u00adprise. At least, that\u2019s what I thought some years ago. People still like to send around office doc\u00adu\u00adments with \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/07\/using-wikis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cUsing Wikis\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}