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)pfaffc@syd.cqu.edu.au

Helen HasanInformation SystemsUniversity of Wollongonghasan@uow.edu.au.

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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