Making the Case for a Wiki
Emma Tonkin,
Ariadne,
Jan 31, 2005
You want a wiki to play with, but how do you make the case for the negligible cost and and server space that one would entail? The author offers three use cases: as a lab book, for collaborative writing, and as a knowledge base (Brian kelly adds, in an other article in the same journal, using a wiki to take notes at a workshop. She also provides a grid comparing nine wiki software packages written in different langauges, allowing readers to pick their preference (this list is not complete, though - and the wiki I ultimately chose, the Erfurt Wiki, is at least as good as any of them).
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