Comments on: When wikis won’t work: 5 questions to ask.

By: Forums versus wikis: wikis often lose.

Forums versus wikis: wikis often lose. — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:46:08 +0000

[...] in September of last year, I talked about some general questions people should ask before setting up a wiki. The very first question I asked was: “is a wiki the best technology for what I am seeking to [...]

By: In Anchor » When Wikis Won’t Work

In Anchor » When Wikis Won’t Work — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:04:35 +0000

[...] a specific problem. And that is exactly what Lucas McDonnell has tried to put together over at When Wikis Won’t Work: 5 Questions to Ask. Lucas references a previous blog post put together by Doug Cornelius under the title "Getting [...]

By: Lucas McDonnell

Lucas McDonnell — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:24:12 +0000

Thanks for your comment knows. This seems to be very common — people put a great deal of time and energy into creating wikis for things that never get used.

It’s interesting if you think of a wiki on the web — literally every person on Earth with internet access can edit Wikipedia, and still some of the pages go stale. Trying to replicate within an organization of a few hundred or even a few thousand people is just doomed to fail.

By: knows

knows — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:12:53 +0000

I can only agree. My company tried to get its developers to put all their knowledge about our custom software in a wiki… didn’t work. Nobody had the time or energy.

By: Is knowledge management bloated?

Is knowledge management bloated? — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:11:33 +0000

[...] talked about the obsession with wikis a few weeks ago, and how wikis are often touted as the solution to any particular problem. Yet wikis are often [...]

By: Roundup of Linkage for September | False Positives

Roundup of Linkage for September | False Positives — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:57:03 +0000

[...] When wikis won’t work: 5 questions to ask. – All discussions around wikis, however, seem to overlook one crucial and obvious fact. Wikis often not the best technology to accomplish a goal. It’s Not the Technology, its the CULTURE. [...]

By: Wiki wake-up call and use cases at Sims Learning Connections

Wiki wake-up call and use cases at Sims Learning Connections — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:27:28 +0000

[...] Work: 10 Questions to Ask Before Full Adoption, which continued from Lucas McDonnell’s: When Wikis won’t work: 5 questions to ask post earlier in the week, which built from Doug Cornelius’s post, prompted by Chris [...]

By: Angela Carito-Walmsley

Angela Carito-Walmsley — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:01:37 +0000

I would have to agree that cultural barriers continue to be one of the key reasons why wikis fail. Too often we implement new technologies for the sake of their ‘trendiness’ without considering the overall cultural issues and barriers.

One of the best wiki articles I’ve read recently is the case of Janssen-Cilag where they converted their entire intranet to a wiki solution –
http://www.e-gineer.com/v2/blog/2007/08/our-intranet-wiki-case-study-of-wiki.htm

By: Before you launch that wiki….

Before you launch that wiki…. — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:15:41 +0000

[...] has a post today that comments on an article by Lucas McDonnell called “When Wikis Won’t Work: 5 Questions to Ask.”Â Elsua adds to the 5 questions with 5 more of his own and those are the questions of [...]

By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » When Wikis Won’t Work: 10 Questions to Ask Before Full Adoption

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:58:10 +0000