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Wiki or Workspace? [ Posted on: 10-October-2007 ]

I was reading Michael's daily report and this caught my eye "Word vs Wiki in SharePoint" [ http://www.michaelsampson.net/2007/10/enterprise-co-4.html ]

Basically Michael points out an entry by Susan Hanly on the use of Wikis vs a Workspace in SharePoint. Essential SharePoint® 2007: Delivering High-Impact CollaborationSusan is one of the authors of the book "Essential SharePoint® 2007: Delivering High-Impact Collaboration" - By Scott Jamison, Mauro Cardarelli, and Susan Hanley.

A chapter "Chapter 8: Sites, Blogs, and Wikis" of the book is available to read online.

I have often seen in some implementations some one somewhere makes an executive decision that a "Wiki" is the solution to all of collaboration needs. In a SharePoint deployment it is important to strike a balance of when to use a wiki and when to use a team site and a document workspace. I recommend you to read the sample chapter.

 

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Wednesday, 10 Oct 2007 09:44 by Mark Miller
I think there also needs to be a distinction made between Wiki Library Pages and Wiki Sites. If there is a basic FAQ needed, I recommend using a wiki library at the base site that will be housing the wiki. This will allow contributors easy access to the wiki and keep a simple structure to your site. However, if there is a lot of content and information structure needed around the wiki, I would suggest a wiki site. This will allow users to participate in more than just the content of the wiki. They can be part of the discussion on the structure of the wiki and the underlying resources the pages can point to. By having the wiki contained in a subsite, it can house document libraries holding critical resources, link to blogs and discussion boards on specific topics and, in general, give you a much more robust environment for building your FAQ. Mark
Wednesday, 10 Oct 2007 01:02 by Mike Riversdale
Correct - a wiki is a tool that's good for something and not for others ... of course SharePoint can co-exist with other technologies and maybe the choice is when to use a wiki, a site, del.icio.us, Google Docs and any host of apps the organisation may have - it's not a one size (company) fits all world anymore. Totally off topic ... You're RSS feed (from MOSS) suffers from the same as we do here at Fronde, weird-ass additions to the txt - such as: * "Body" * "Published date" * "Attachments" Why (and how to stop) these items ... the first word you read in the feed is 'Body' - a very strange way to start off the message :-) [/rant]
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