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Wiki's For Knowledge Management
VILSC 2018
Scott Leslie
BC Libraries Cooperative
INTRO
Who are you?
Do you currently wiki? If not - why not?
Who am I?
wiki.libraries.coop
some things about the Coop:
we're not a library. we have a lot of tech-saavy people on staff.
we do open source as exclusively as possible
we are super cost-aware, don't like to spend when we don't have to
Why Wiki?
easy collaborative document editing and creation
easy search and browse
improve transparency and help reduce silos
anticipate knowledge growth even before it happens
Why DOKUWIKI?
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document based, not database
git backed, which means key staff can have an offline version of the wiki on their laptops
ability to move pages and namespaces (means you don't have to get it perfect the first time)
Why DOKUWIKI? Part II
access control - can control both visibility and editabling; can include public sections
re-skinning; the nav bars are actually wiki pages!
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can host structured data and offer ways to export it?
How we made it work
if you have even a few people using it - don't kill it, build on it!
redesign, info architecture
gardening! together and separately
Is wiki always the way? NO