A corporate wiki is a wiki application designed to be used in a corporate context. In addition to the regular features of a wiki, corporate wikis often have features specific to organizations, like contacts management and to-do lists. Look up Wiki in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Wikis are increasingly used internally by companies and public sector organizations, some as prominent as Adobe, Microsoft and the FBI. They represent an alternative to centrally-managed Content Management Systems. They potentially allow a more flexible approach to Project Management than dedicated software. < [[[[math>Insert formula here</math>The public sector is that part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the [[government </math></math></math></math> Direct administration funded through taxation; the delivering organisation generally has no specific requirement to meet commercial... Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... A content management system (or CMS) is a system used to organise and facilitate collaborative content creation. ... Project Management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources (e. ...

Features of corporate wikis

For a short overview of what wikis can provide to enterprises compared with traditional CMS, see Wiki#Wikis and content management systems. Features of wikis specifically helpful to a corporation include: Look up Wiki in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiki in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

• Avoiding e-mail overload. Wikis allow all relevant information to be shared by people working on a given project. Conversely, only the wiki users interested in a given project need look at its associated wiki pages, in contrast to high-traffic mailing lists which may burden many subscribers with many messages, regardless of relevance to particular subscribers.
• Accounts Management. Users can be forbidden from viewing and/or editing given pages, depending on their department or role within the organization.
• Building consensus. Wikis provide a framework for collaborative writing. Particularly, they allow the structured expression of views disagreed upon by authors on a same page.
• Organizing information. Wikis allow users to structure new and existing information. As with content, the structure of data is sometimes also editable by users; see structured wiki.
• Saving time by: Making ideas available; Sharing Knowledge, Having a common glossary, and Managing Related Information.

Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The terms collaborative writing and peer collaboration refer to projects where written works are created by multiple people together (collaboratively) rather than individually. ... Structured wikis provide database-like manipulation of fields stored on pages, and usually offer an extraction and presentation language or markup with functionality somewhat similar to SQL. // Wikis are typically used as shared whiteboards that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit all content very quickly and easily. ...

Corporate wiki solutions

A large set of corporate wiki solutions are available; see list of wiki software and comparison of wiki software. The most prominent wikis include TWiki, XWiki, TikiWiki, Confluence and Socialtext. Their aim is to provide all ranges of companies with ready-made wiki solutions that can be adapted to SMEs as well as multinational corporations. Amongst those companies, the competition lies as much in corporate philosophy as in what the products look like. For example, Socialtext values simplicity, where TWiki puts an emphasis on structured wikis where users can create wiki applications. Most of them have adopted an Open-Source mindset and allow developers or even users to create purposed applications. This is a list of notable wiki software applications. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of wiki software packages. ... TWiki is a Wiki program which runs (serves as a platform for) certain wikis which are called TWikiSites. ... XWiki is a Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... Tiki CMS/Groupware, originally and more commonly known as TikiWiki, is an open source (LGPL) Content Management System (CMS) / Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCMS) / Groupware web application enabling websites and portals on the internet and on intranets and extranets. ... Look up confluence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California that produces enterprise social software, including a software platform by the same name. ... Small and medium enterprises or SMEs are companies whose headcount or turnover falls below certain limits. ... A multinational corporation (MNC) is a corporation or enterprise that manages production establishments or delivers services in at least two countries. ... Structured wikis provide database-like manipulation of fields stored on pages, and usually offer an extraction and presentation language or markup with functionality somewhat similar to SQL. // Wikis are typically used as shared whiteboards that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit all content very quickly and easily. ... A wiki application (also known as an application wiki) is a web application that runs on a wiki. ... // Open Source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. ...

Wiki software packages not specifically built for corporations are also used at the workplace, such as MediaWiki, DokuWiki or MoinMoin. Although they can be used to build simple knowledgebases and internal websites, they often lack enterprise features such as fine grained access control, per page name space for attachments, or integration with other enterprise tools. MediaWiki is a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, all wikis hosted by Wikia, and many other wikis, including some of the largest and most popular ones. ... DokuWiki is a simple to use wiki software aimed at small companies’ documentation needs written in PHP by Andreas Gohr. ... MoinMoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python. ... A knowledge base is a special kind of database for knowledge management. ...

See also

• Comparison of wiki software
• Collaborative editing
• Collaborative writing
• Enterprise social software
• Wiki application
• Wikinomics (book)
• Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great — specific to Wikipedia, but corporate wikis can function similarly

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of wiki software packages. ... Collaborative editing is the practice of groups producing works together through individual contributions. ... The terms collaborative writing and peer collaboration refer to projects where written works are created by multiple people together (collaboratively) rather than individually. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Social computing. ... A wiki application (also known as an application wiki) is a web application that runs on a wiki. ... Book cover of Wikinomics Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything is a December 2006 book by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. ...

References

• Andersen, Espen (2005). Using Wikis in a Corporate Context. In Handbuch E-Learning. A. Hohenstein and K. Wilbers (eds). Cologne, WoltersKluwer. 5.8: 15.
• Guy, Marieke (2006). Wiki or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis. Ariadne Issue 49.

External links

• CorporateWikis - a page about corporate wikis on WikiWikiWeb, the very first wiki
• b:Wiki Science/How to start a Wiki#Business Environments
• "Wikis evolve as collaboration tools" - InfoWorld Jan 2007 review of Wiki products designed for enterprise use
• "Corporate Wiki Users: Results of a Survey" - 168 corporate wiki users answered this Survey
• Wikis in Enterprises - survey by the Department of Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management of the University of Cologne.