Secret wiki business

MIS Australia podcast on Secret Wiki Business. Wikis as a knowledge sharing tool get a name-check. Very pertinent comment: people are using wikis and other simple tools for sharing as they were burnt by big, clumsy KM tools in the late-90s. You can expense a wiki as a cab charge - you don't have to issue an RFP. And it's yours - you own it not some git in IT.

Source: ABB

Meanwhile http://www.anecdote.com.au/archives/2007/08/wiki_patterns_1.html namechecks wiki patterns (also mentioned in the podcast) and places wikis in the complex domain. I'd agree with some caveats:

• The uses of wikis can be complex because for many organisations they are still new and poorly understood.
• The uses of wikis can be complex because they often involve many individuals collaborating P2P in the same space.
• The uses of wikis can be complex because they work in heterogeneous environments on the internet (with blogs, Flickr, YouTube, etc) or inside the enterprise (with ECM, EDRM, yadda yadda).
• The uses of wikis is not always complex. Once a small group of people using a wiki have settled down then it may become simple.