posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 3:05 PM
by
Jonathan Hodgson
MSDN Wiki
Wikis are gaining more attention as a collaborative tool for sharing and updating information. Most people these days have heard of Wikipedia and maybe even use a wiki internally at their company.
I wrote a CodeProject article a couple of years ago about using OpenWiki and I wouldn't want to go back to writing and maintaining technical information in plain Word documents again.
Another example is PInvoke.net a great resource for any .NET developer who needs to do Win32 calls. Microsoft has used them internally for tech reviews and requirements gathering for Visual Studio.
Well now it seems MSDN has launched their documentation as a wiki (statistics) and Ebay are trying the concept out as well.
Hopefully the out of the box wiki template in SharePoint 2007 will push the idea to more people / companies.