Jon 5475's List: Computer

• These perceptions and experiences that lead companies to reject wikis are rooted in a common problem: the vast majority of the public has formed 100 percent of their expectations about what a wiki can and should be based on the single example of Wikipedia.
• what makes a wiki so powerful for collaboration is that the "anyone can edit" capability means that the development of a wiki is typically driven by the community of people who use it, rather than being mandated and guided from on-high by a centralized IT or by company leadership.
• wiki.webworks.com
• There is a common perception that wikis are highly inaccurate; the best-known example of this is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which is often criticized for its errors. This is a common misconception
• People with a passion for a particular subject tend to self-police the areas of a wiki covering that subject; they make changes very quickly, and if some misleading or incorrect information is posted then it is instantly challenged and rapidly corrected, with a consequential increase in the quality of the information.

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