About a month ago, I was talking to a friend involved with wikis & collaboration at a major corporate. The thorny issue of "governance" came up. What do you need to manage with a wiki. Now part of this relates to the previous post around where wikis fit in with the plethora of other collaboration tools that most organisations have. The other issue is one of "reliance". So if a group (a team or a community) is using a wiki for their own purposes, that's OK. If other people come to rely on their content in a major way, does this then need to be managed more tightly. What do you do about "reliance"? Do you end up moving from the left to the right of the "after" diagram here. And if so, how do you make that decision?
Now if your organisation has decided that your wiki is your intranet, not really an issue. The thought that came to my mind was: viewer metrics are key here. If you have a team of 10 people working on something and only 10 people visit those pages, no worries. If 10,000 people visit those pages then that may indicate that this stuff is becoming important. And hey, it might even be worth investing in developing this content more.
What do you think?
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