Promoting Wiki

How can I promote wiki?

How do I get my team using a wiki?
- Set one up
- Point to successful wiki teams
How do I get my corporation using a wiki? (as an intranet for an example)
- Get your team using it
- Point to working examples
How do I get forum or newsgroup users to wiki?
- First would be also: Set one up
- Point to one successful wiki in ParsimonyNet, where each of the thousands of forums have automatically associated a wiki

Thanks for your answer here. I am doing this already. What are the next points? It would be also good to talk about it. I am looking for arguments. That's why I started searching for pages. I need a page with a lot of good contents which explains why wiki and why not forums or newsgroups.

Are there some other pages here which gives answers? Listed from CategoryWiki:

Helpful ones:

Not so helpful now:

The following discussion is about promoting WardsWiki, not wikis in general. I think.

I often wonder whether pointing people at Wiki is a good idea. Since I consider Wiki a resource of immense value, I almost consider it criminal not to tell people about it (an anti-KnowledgeIsPower sentiment). Weighed against that are the risks such promotion would have for present WikiUsers. Reduced SignalToNoise ratio or WikiVandalism may ensue. At best, the new community members become ideal WikiCitizens, but then would we reach a WikiEntropy, where the sheer number of postings (even if containing high SignalToNoise) becomes too great for a RecentChanges page to be effective? I don't ever want to have to GoogleMyWiki...am I being naive? :-) I guess these sentiments have been echoed many times before (my memory suggests such pages as TragedyOfTheCommons...). -- DanGreen

I remember reading somewhere on Wiki that Ward thinks Wiki is not ready to, or should not be, SlashDotted. I think I agree. -- FalkBruegmann

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