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Some big names using a wiki

nick — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:32:22 +0000

The Federal Computer Week’s Who’s using wikis is a short list of large US federal agencies who are using wikis. Just the agency name, the wiki name and a very brief summary. Just enough for you to do further research, for example Intellipedia and Diplopedia have detailed wikipedia entries. Or to convince doubters that wikis can be effectively used for knowledge sharing and collaboration, even across agencies, no matter how sensitive the information might be.

A Local Government gets it

nick — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:26:01 +0000

Future Melbourne

The City of Melbourne is using a wiki to consult with their stakeholders about the direction the city should take for future, to 2020 and beyond.

The wiki is only one tool in consultation process, but I am very interested in seeing the direction this will take. Seeing this is first time a wiki has been used for this level of consultation as far as I know in Australia.

If it is successful and I expect it should be. I hope other Governments in Australia, on all levels, local, state and federal will look at using wikis or similar tools to provide non traditional methods of consultation.

Intellipedia

nick — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:44:15 +0000

aka Spook 2.0

A wiki that covers a over a dozen different agency, with over 35,000 articles, 200,000 pages, 37,000 users, 100 new articles and 4,000 edits a day is pretty impressive. Especially when you find out the agencies involved are intelligence agencies who had reputation for being less than willing to share their information. It has to be said this is a very successful wiki implementation.

As access is restricted, due to the nature of the wiki you need to search from information about Intellipedia, from CIA press release and off course the Intellipedia Wikipedia entry. I would recommend reading both and looking for more information of the web on how Intellipedia became so successful. Because if you every need a good example of a cross agency wiki working, Intellipedia is it.

A wiki that is good in court

nick — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:37:21 +0000

7th Circuit Practitioners Guide Wiki

Hat tip to Anthony D. Williams for this one. Do not know the original source of quotes on Anthony’s post, but they are good.

Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook

As a group, the attorneys practicing before our court know more about appellate practice than any single person. With our wiki, weâ€™re drawing on that wisdom.

I would consider legal arms of government and particularly the court system to be one the most risk adverse sections of government. Yet the US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has used a wiki for their Practitioner’s Guide. From the looks of it, the wiki has been success, a great way of sharing the accumulated knowledge of number of a professional group people.

Quotes came from an article in The Third Branch the newsletter of the federal court.