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WIKI‘S BY
ROCKING ITASIO
SURESH KRISHNAU K RAOPRAMODKISHORE
SAI KRISHNARAVI CHANDRA
RAMANJANEYA RAJU
ABSTRACT Even though the wikis have been introduced a decade
ago the advantages of wiki for the management of
knowledge are getting discovered now by the various
business organizations. Since there is a risk in adoption
of the wiki many people are not interested in using the
new wiki technology although it is having a wide range
of advantages. Here the usage of wikis is observed in
most of the corporate organisations but rarely some
corporate organisations does not allow the use of wikis
in their organisations(1).
INTRODUCTION ON WIKIS It would be best for us to describe wiki when presented
with scenario. It allows multiple people to contribute their
discoveries ,ideas from a single location and to share tips
and advised you to set up contribution “standards”.(1)
This is the best way to keep people aware of the
contributing to the wikis by best methods. Wikis are also
helpful when you choose for a face-to-face training
lectures, go to the wiki and enter and look up for the
information. For trainees it would be better and helpful
for retrieving information from wikis.(1)
It is a web-based application that permits the end users to
cooperatively write and where they can easily add to, edit
and save the content of articles or information and
relationships can be determined dynamically between the
sets of documents. All such documents are supported by the
web with hyperlinks to any place on the world wide web
including images, videos and texts.(1)
Wiki means ‘fast’, ‘to hasten’, ‘quick’, which is named after
Hawaiian term and which is a sign of the quick changes in
editing processes. It can be said as an evolving knowledge
repository where users are inspired to make additions to this
repository working with already existing ones or by adding
new articles.(1)
Definition Wiki(2) - A software that authorise the end
users with ease in order to link internet sites or web
portals, edit, and create.
We use wikis to potent community web portals and
frequently or repeatedly to make web
portals work together, especially in a joint intellectual
effort. Web portals of these wikis are oftentimes are
cited as wikis(2).
For instance (2): The one of best glorious wikis are
Wikipedia.
Business enterprise or Organizations set up wikis
actually for Knowledge Management, to feed
efficacious and Inexpensive Intranets(2).
BRIEF HISTORY OF WIKIS
Developed by:
The First Wiki was created in 1995, By Ward
Cunningham, primitively delineated Wiki Wiki Web, as
“the
simplest online database that could possibly work”(2).
Quote from Wikipedia.org (2).
In the year 2000 nupedia , a peer reviewed wiki, has a
limited run and also in the year 2001 Wikipedia, an open
encyclopaedia is founded by jimmy Wales and Larry
Sanger(1)
WIKIS WHY
An assemblage that is volitional to vindicate and recognise
with the social group of thoughts is a Wiki. It has every right
to embellish in which guardedly exclusive in what it will be(2).
This wiki is: persevering, heedful, dissimilar, people with
different open thoughts and put in their years of acquisition in
what is needed, what is not(2).
When volunteer’s deviate and Withdraw from their works,
they are replaced by others. It’s really wonderful thing that it
still works even with out automatically implemented
control(2).
WIKIS ROLE IN ORGANIZATIONS
Wikis role at organizational level fall in its way of
approach and maintenance.(2)
Wikis in organization are secured, database friendly,
instant rollback, authorised and easy for the end users.
(2)
For instance: if we go for any knowledge management
software’s used by certain organizations like Interspire
knowledge manager software which is a wiki software
used by for its HR activities, sales, marketing,
integrated searches.(2)
WORKING OF WIKI IN ORGANIZATION “ Interspire Knowledge Manager
It is installed on your web
server,
either locally (intranet) or remotely
(website)”(2)
“ It runs off the most popular
combination of open source
technologies in the world: PHP
and MySQL”(2)
“ When wiki is accessed by Your staff, the changes are saved to a
highly optimized MySQL database. Interspire Knowledge
Manager includes a built-in backup system which means it
takes just a few clicks to create a copy of your wiki, which you
can then store offsite for safe keeping”(2)
During the browser-based
installation only The MySQL database
is created for you. automatically
during the browser-based installation
wizard.(2)
We spent weeks of time on
database optimization before the
release of Interspire Knowledge
Manager.(2)
It is great to hear that you know
store tens of thousands of articles in
your wiki and they are editable,
searchable and viewable, in contrast
with speed of light.(2)
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT “All of life and business is a game of odds. Just as HR
policies increase the odds of employee retention, and
good Customer service increases the odds toward
repeat business, knowledge management is about
increasing the odds toward knowledge being
transferred, utilized and [contributing to] innovation” –
Larry Prusak(3).
Executive director, IBM Corp.'s Institute for Knowledge
Management (Glasser 1999)(3).
In order to conquer the commitment of increased
“effectiveness, efficiency, and competitiveness,” many
organizations have chosen to implement KM practices
and systems (Schultze and Leidner 2002, p. 2) (3).
ENTERSPIRE KNOWLEDGE MANAGER
Interspire Knowledge Manager is a wiki software used by the organizations(2).
Wikipedia is the best known wiki(2). The features of Interspire Knowledge Manager that permit
you to run your own enterprise-grade company wiki(2). Included features are(2): Quick edit you can make changes to information or articles
in real-time, while you go through them. Article history when the changes were made by who and at
what time can be seen. Integrated search you can search articles for yourself and for
your staff at ease. Groups Admission levels and transferrable authorisations
with their own. Feedback mechanisms to inspire staff participation. Simple publishing and permitting of content from your web
browser.
COMPARISON OF WIKI WITH CMS From Wikipedia point of view, the generally some of the
features are inspired and shared with Content
management Systems (CMS), which are used by
assemblages-of-practice and business organizations.
Wikis should be an inspiration for contrast in terms of basic
features when you try to differentiate with CMS(2):
Articles name is embedded in the hyperlink.(2)
These Articles can be edited or created by anyone at
anytime (with certain limitations for protected articles).(2)
Through the web browser these articles can be edited.(2)
One-click access to the history/versioning page is provided
by each and every article, which is supported by
retrieving prior versions and version differencing ("diff").(2)
Articles can be supervised actively or passively from the
The most recent additions/modifications.(2)
Changes are possible by easy revert.(2)
ADVANTAGES
Which you choose depends on how you're using the wiki:
If the whole of the course taking place in the wiki it's a
VLE in itself. And an external one might give you enough
flexibility.
Supported in-house by IT department - they may be able
to add or limit features as you require - they can also
cause time delays that don't meet the needs of
academics or students.
External wikis have the ability to stay very up to date and
to improve on a monthly (or even weekly) basis.
DISADVANTAGES Possibility of external tech failure (like when
educspaces announced it was closing in the middle of
people's blogging-based courses - luckily it was saved,
but it's a message! - the need to look for systems with
well funded support) .
Which you choose depends on how you're using the
wiki - if is it just a small part of a course using
technology it may sit naturally within the institutional
VLE and the wiki available. within that The provider
may start charging for the use of the service.
There may be some issues of confidentiality - if
students are working on something that is case study
based.
CONCLUSION The cooperative work of wikis and show how it will ‘write itself’,
based on conserving this developing repository of knowledge
in the organization and the end user’s contribution. It also
analyses the reasons for how wikis can be useful in knowledge
management work and the reason for why the case
organization has dismissed using Wiki technology for
knowledge management.
The risk of wiki rejection argues are based upon the literature,
provided by a number of strategies, as said by this case
organization. Wiki is placed at less importance upon strict
discipline, wide range of monitoring and centralised control
systems to manage knowledge in the organization when
contrast with traditional Knowledge Management Systems.
REFERENCES1. http://www.pacis-net.org/file/2006/1152.pdf
Charmaine C. PfaffCentral Queensland UniversitySydney International Campus (CMS)[email protected]
Helen HasanInformation SystemsUniversity of [email protected].
2. http://www.interspire.com/knowledgemanager/wiki_software.php
3. http://www.uhisrc.com/FTB/Wiki/wiki_way_brief%5B1%5D-Jennifer%2005.pdf
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