one of the Wiki Types; see WikiWikiWeb:TeamWiki

Using Wiki For Collaboration Ware, I usually start off with a Team Wiki, which might have info about multiple projects in it.

• In theory, if there's are some projects where I write in enough detail that Wiki Name-s will collide (e.g. lists of User Stories), I spin off a Project Wiki for each.

• In reality, this hasn't happened to me. I see a Project Wiki as more likely to be appropriate when it involves subsets of the members of multiple teams coming together.

I run a hosting service Teamflux Com at http://www.teamflux.com/

Hmm, what are the differences between running a Team Wiki for a Creative Network vs a Social Network?

What should be in a Team Wiki?

• MissIon for the project

• page for each bit of the Shared Language that helps members communicate

• task list, or at least a couple levels of deliverables - each item should be a Wiki Name to spin off a new page

• Operations Manual documenting every job (that gets done more than once)

• page for each team member

  • which should be named to match their username id/cookie (so that Recent Changes links to them)

  • all members should use that naming when referring to that person (in wiki and in email)

  • each page often becomes a prioritized task list for that person, again spinning off individual pages

  • plus those pages act like a [Scratch Pad] where wiki-newbies feel more comfortable writing and spinning off new pages.

• TeamfluxCom:WaysToUseThis

I'm wondering whether there's a need for a Virtual Community of the developers, admins, evangelists, and plain old users of Team Wiki spaces.

A lot of meta-WiKi sites focus on the mode of having a wiki which is open to editing by everyone. Meatball Wiki, etc.

I'm more interested in the use of wiki by a TelIc collection of people. This doesn't have to be a business team, but I think the membership membrane needs to be only semi-porous, if there's going to be any progress, Coher Ence.

Other groups that are close but different in focus:

• Social Software Alliance

• Blue Oxen

What would the goals of such a group be?

• To evangelize the use of Team Wiki spaces, so that there are more effective and enjoyable teams to join.

• To push developers and users toward a set of Best Practices:

  • what to do in the wiki and how

  • when to set up multiple wikis, and how to relate the two (WikiWeb, Overlapping Scopes Of Collaboration, SubWiki, Sister Sites)

  • how to work integrate with other media (Email Discussion Beside Wiki, AppWiki)

  • Wiki Engine features needed to support such practices: Wiki Standards, etc.

Would this interest anyone?

Very much Interested --2003/11/21 03:46 [GMT]
There is a significant set of wiki users / evangelists that live behind corporate firewalls. There doesn't seem to be enough thinking about how to do this well. Would be nice to think through how to get a wiki started for teams too. There are a whole host of management objections I typically run into that we could address as a community a lot more effectively. --Ed Taekema - http://www.pycs.net/users/0000177/2003/11/19.html#P93

see CommunityWiki:MailingListThenWiki --2004/02/05 22:57 [GMT]
for idea on starting out by doing most discussion via Email List.

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