How to Use Enterprise Wikis - Patterns and Anti-Patterns

Atlassian is a company that sells an enterprise wiki called Confluence. They obviously believe in their product, and in the principle behind wikis – they’ve set up an open wiki community to share “patterns” and “anti-patterns” and there’s some really nice stuff there – brief outlines of different approaches to setting up wikis successfully (patterns), and approaches that seem to hinder takeup and participation (anti-patterns). There are also “people” patterns and anti-patterns, such as wiki-gnomes (pattern) and wiki-trolls (anti-pattern) – all in all a wonderful resource for anyone considering setting up internal wikis to foster greater collaboration. One of the commenters on the site refers to the barn-raising tradition in the rural US, where neighbours gather from miles around to help someone raise a new barn for their farm. You help on my barn, I’ll help on yours, and it’s all wonderfully practical. Thanks to Emanuele for this reference.

Posted by Patrick Lambe on 22/02/07 at 10: 24 AM | Categories: Communities, KM Applied | Permalink

2 Comments so far

Stewart Mader

Patrick,
Thanks very much for linking to Wikipatterns.com! I appreciate that you’re helping to spread the word!
Stewart Mader
Wiki Evangelist, Atlassian

Posted on February 27, 2007 at 07:47 AM | Comment permalink

Patrick Lambe

It’s a great initiative Stuart and really really practical. Will keep a close eye on it and pitch in where I can.

Posted on February 27, 2007 at 06:24 PM | Comment permalink

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