¶ … Wikis Within an Organization If technically create wiki, explore read multiple existing wiki sites a substitute exercise.) This reading give ideas wikis organizations: Grace, P.L. (2009).

What is a wiki and how can it be useful for an organization?

A wiki is basically a webpage that anyone can be able to view and edit its content as long as one has an active internet connection, wikis are easy to edit, and since this is done from the browser one does not need to learn any HTML. Wikis allow for groups collaborations and asynchronous communication across the internet Flierl & Fowler, 2007.

With open access there exists potential for mischief from some users, monitoring of the wiki is a must, and this might be very time consuming and resource intensive, it is for this reason that only authorized users are allowed to add or modify content in the majority of the wikis.

Wikis is useful in an organization as it allows for easy document sharing unlike emails which may be lost and wikis also have a nice audit trail so anyone can track a documents edit history. A wiki can capture a lot of information that an organization might need, anyone can be able to edit to the content as long as one has a browser and internet connection, they also require less manpower to maintain it. A wiki has capabilities for growth and expansion, and this would work well especially with the growth of an organization Hu et al., 2008.

The in-built search facility of wikis will make document searching...

MediaWiki is written in PHP and makes use of a database to store all its data. MediaWiki was first deployed in 2002 to power the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, since then it has been deployed by other companies either internally or publicly, and it is mainly used for Knowledge Management Flierl & Fowler, 2007.
MediaWiki allows for easy document collaboration and has the capability to handle a company's growth due to the fact that all data is stored in a database.

MediaWiki content is edited by clicking on the edit button found on the page or by going to the particular section and clicking on it from there, this sub-grouping of sections makes editing of longer pages easy. It also has support for different languages Knobel & Lankshear, 2009.

MediaWiki allows users to include rich content in their Wikis, this is not only limited to pictures and videos, but one can also have mathematical formulas, musical scores and Egyptian hieroglyphs. MediaWiki has a feature for tracking all the recent changes that are made on an article, this allows for audit trail and also for a roll back in case there is an issue with the edit that was made.

Organizational goal to be supported by MediaWiki

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