A few days ago we had a wiki lunch and learn in our New York offices. The goal of the meeting was to educate peers about wikis and then talk specifically about the Avenue A | Razorfish wiki. The meeting was extremely informative both for the audience and for the presenters who got useful feedback on the wiki. The wiki redesign was also previewed during the lunch (left). |
The meeting certainly drove home the point that the wiki can be defined in any number of ways. The lack of inherent structure exposes it to requests for many different structures Whether it be requests for a global navigation system based on company departments or something more fluid, categorization was certainly a hot topic. This conversation also showed that a lot of users think of a wiki in terms of an intranet. They expect to see intranet metaphors and functionality on it. Your challenge will be to either accommodate their needs or educate them that this is something quite different that needs to stay different.
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