Although much of the content covered here is also included in Chapter 3: Planting The Seed – Think Before You Implement, I thought it would be useful to include it as a separate section that can be used as a checklist by those about to embark on a wiki project.
When I’m invited to speak to various groups about wiki implementation, I often use these 10 questions as the core of my presentation, and I have found that considering these questions before you start enables you to lay a solid foundation on which to build and grow a wiki.
I hope that you will find this summary useful as both a checklist and as a starting point for your own endeavors.
Ask yourself and your team the following questions before you start to implement a wiki, and be truthful with the answers.
Think about the issue you are trying to solve, and then see how a wiki might be applied, but remember don’t just focus on the positive, think about the potential down sides too.
For any technology implementation to succeed, there needs to be a problem to be solved, or an operational efficiency to be gained: