Comments on: MS Wiki Vs Wiki http://itsallkm.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/ms-wiki-vs-wiki/ A guide to all things Knowledge Management Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:04:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Arjun Thomas http://itsallkm.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/ms-wiki-vs-wiki/#comment-36 Arjun Thomas Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:47:05 +0000 http://itsallkm.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/ms-wiki-vs-wiki/#comment-36 It's a start. but from what i've seen the wiki is actually structured like a document library on sharepoint. Which means you might be able to attach meta-tags to each "article". Even if this is so, the freedom of being able to define which category your article belongs to , and have a navigation structure based on those categories is not something that is achievable out of the box. We have managed to create some additional functionalities around sharepoint 2007 , but not in the wiki space as yet. Bottom line.... i'm still waiting ver 2.0 It’s a start. but from what i’ve seen the wiki is actually structured like a document library on sharepoint. Which means you might be able to attach meta-tags to each “article”. Even if this is so, the freedom of being able to define which category your article belongs to , and have a navigation structure based on those categories is not something that is achievable out of the box. We have managed to create some additional functionalities around sharepoint 2007 , but not in the wiki space as yet.

Bottom line…. i’m still waiting ver 2.0

]]> By: Vincent Armato http://itsallkm.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/ms-wiki-vs-wiki/#comment-33 Vincent Armato Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:17:20 +0000 http://itsallkm.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/ms-wiki-vs-wiki/#comment-33 I'm pretty certain that you can achieve a categorization in Sharepoint 2007 by simply content-typing each of the Wiki's which can enforce (or leave optional) a type specific attribute which you could call 'Category'. Every wiki then created could have this attribute that could drive all sorts of stuff like categorized views or even audience profiling based upon Wiki categories. I’m pretty certain that you can achieve a categorization in Sharepoint 2007 by simply content-typing each of the Wiki’s which can enforce (or leave optional) a type specific attribute which you could call ‘Category’. Every wiki then created could have this attribute that could drive all sorts of stuff like categorized views or even audience profiling based upon Wiki categories.

]]> By: Arjun Thomas http://itsallkm.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/ms-wiki-vs-wiki/#comment-24 Arjun Thomas Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:35:54 +0000 http://itsallkm.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/ms-wiki-vs-wiki/#comment-24 You make a good point Bob , and thanks for the response!!. While this is a great first step from microsoft, specially for a "traditional" Fortune 500. I think there is quite a ways to go before Microsoft can fully leverage the power of a Wiki engine. Would go a long way towards ensuring that things like PPT's and documents get created using this application. In my view making collaboration a whole lot easier, i've battled with the whole "versioning" of documents on sharepoint... and honestly , this is far more user friendly... You make a good point Bob , and thanks for the response!!. While this is a great first step from microsoft, specially for a “traditional” Fortune 500. I think there is quite a ways to go before Microsoft can fully leverage the power of a Wiki engine.

Would go a long way towards ensuring that things like PPT’s and documents get created using this application. In my view making collaboration a whole lot easier, i’ve battled with the whole “versioning” of documents on sharepoint… and honestly , this is far more user friendly…

]]> By: Bob Iliff http://itsallkm.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/ms-wiki-vs-wiki/#comment-22 Bob Iliff Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:20:31 +0000 http://itsallkm.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/ms-wiki-vs-wiki/#comment-22 I work for a "traditional" Fortune 500, and have really been rattling the bars on why we need wikis. I was (finally) told that SharePoint was coming, and have now looked at some of the online tutorials. What I was struck by is how MS Wiki (your term) seems to subordinate wikis as compilation "editors" to specific Office Documents. Does your team need to make a PowerPoint deck? Open a wiki. Create a Word document? Open a wiki!. I think this is actually very crafty! For an organization such as mine that is Office Document driven, the wiki is just a messy closet sitting (thankfully) somewhere else away from the Document Library. Can it still be useful in these structure? I think so, especially if the document title is: Why we only need the wiki. I work for a “traditional” Fortune 500, and have really been rattling the bars on why we need wikis. I was (finally) told that SharePoint was coming, and have now looked at some of the online tutorials. What I was struck by is how MS Wiki (your term) seems to subordinate wikis as compilation “editors” to specific Office Documents. Does your team need to make a PowerPoint deck? Open a wiki. Create a Word document? Open a wiki!. I think this is actually very crafty! For an organization such as mine that is Office Document driven, the wiki is just a messy closet sitting (thankfully) somewhere else away from the Document Library. Can it still be useful in these structure? I think so, especially if the document title is: Why we only need the wiki.

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