Anne Gentle wrote to tell me that she and a panel of wiki users from the likes of IBM, Sun, the OLPC Project, and Quadralay WebWorks discussed DITA and wikis last night at the Central Texas DITA users group. (DITA is a popular set of XML schematics for technical documentation.) Here's one example:
Chris Almond from IBM, has a great case study of work he's doing to bring RedBook content into internal wikis. He's actually using DITA as an intermediate "storage" holding place for content before putting it into a wiki so that IBM consultants around the world can edit and discuss the RedBook content. RedBooks are sort of "solution cookbooks" for very specific technical configurations with multiple products that solve certain business and customer problems, they're a very popular resource for IBM.
- Here's IBM's public Redbooks wiki: RedWiki. (BlueWiki, which Chris discussed on the panel, is internal.)
- Webworks Wiki - Ben Allums of WebWorks described it as a "garage" for projects - very apt reference for a high tech company!
- Floss Manuals
- Sun OpenDS Wiki - used a source of user and developer documentation for Open Directory Service.
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