Wikis

Posts in the wiki category touch upon wiki-related topics. Wikis were once a dominant way of publishing tech docs that isn't so common anymore.

The following content is in the wikis category:

Crowdsourcing docs with docs-as-code tools -- same result as with wikis? | Mar 8, 2017

When are wikis ever successful? | Jul 30, 2015

DocOps: Interview with Jim Turcotte | Oct 21, 2014

Two major Confluence problems: poor content re-use and lack of wiki markup | Sep 24, 2014

Strategies for content re-use in Confluence | Jun 24, 2014

Complex tools versus simple tools | May 10, 2014

Moving Between the Agora and the Desert | Dec 16, 2012

Turning Point (Wikis) | Jun 17, 2012

Writing Is Harder Than Most Think (Wikis) | Jun 16, 2012

A Guiding Metaphor (Wikis) | Jun 15, 2012

Community and Collaboration (Wikis) | Jun 14, 2012

Some Wiki Basics (Wikis) | Jun 13, 2012

Is Collaborative Authoring Over-Hyped? | Jun 12, 2012

The Need for Constant Updates (Wikis) | Jun 12, 2012

My Journey To and From Wikis: Why I Adopted Wikis, Why I Veered Away, and a New Model | Jun 11, 2012

Upcoming STC Webinar: Creating Help in a Wiki Environment | Jun 5, 2012

Confab 2012: Thoughts and Reactions | May 19, 2012

Differences between blogs and wikis, and why you might need both | Apr 19, 2012

Guest Post: Why I Love Wikis | Apr 14, 2012

Subpage Titles on Wikis -- Challenges, Conventions, and Compromises | Mar 22, 2012

Guest Post: Wikis Are the Future of Technical Documentation | Mar 20, 2012

Why don't technical writers use wikis — or do they? | Feb 24, 2012

What I Learned About Tech Comm During 2011 | Dec 28, 2011

Wiki Culture, Reader/Writer Distinctions, and Divergence from Structured Authoring | Nov 19, 2011

Why I Returned to Wikis for Help Authoring | Nov 14, 2011

Diverging Directions for Tech Comm: Social Media or Structured Authoring | Jun 9, 2011

The Real Source of Findability | Mar 10, 2011

Review of Alan Porter's Wiki: Grow Your Own for Fun and Profit | Nov 25, 2010

Forum → Wiki → Blog Workflow | Nov 24, 2010

Using Mediawiki Templates to Organize Content [Organizing Content 13] | Jun 9, 2010

From Help Authoring Tools to Web Tools, Especially Wikis [Organizing Content 12] | Jun 3, 2010

Podcast: Trends in Technical Communication | Apr 25, 2010

Design Fixations with Mediawiki Skins | Dec 14, 2009

Ramping Up on Mediawiki | Dec 6, 2009

Wikis and the Holy Grail of Content Independence | Nov 2, 2009

A Few Surprises in Using a Wiki for Documentation | Oct 29, 2009

How Do Blogs and Wikis Fit Together? | Sep 8, 2009

Podcast with Anne Gentle about her Conversation and Community book | Aug 26, 2009

Review of Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation | Aug 24, 2009

Exporting Documentation to Wikis | Aug 10, 2009

Is This Meeting Really Necessary? | Jul 15, 2009

Implementing a Department Wiki? A Writer Shares Some Dos and Don'ts (Guest Post) | Jun 30, 2009

Anne Gentle on her Forthcoming Book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation | May 27, 2009

Anne Gentle to Give Virtual Presentation on Wikis on Thursday, April 23 | Apr 15, 2009

Can SharePoint 2007 Be Used as a Help Authoring Tool? | Feb 11, 2009

Twitter Part II –- One Step Deeper | Dec 5, 2008

Podcast: Debunking the Boredom Myth of Technical Writing | Nov 3, 2008

FLOSSmanuals.net: A New Wiki Help Authoring/Publishing Tool Hybrid | Sep 5, 2008

Scott Nesbitt Interview with Stewart Mader on Wikis | May 20, 2008

SharePoint Wikis: Both Liberating and Frustrating | May 17, 2008

Giving a Virtual Presentation to STC-Phoenix on Tuesday, May 13 | May 12, 2008

Podcast: Embracing Wikis -- Interview with Stewart Mader | May 10, 2008

Podcast: Leading Your Company into the Wikis, Blogs, and Social Networks of Web 2.0 | May 6, 2008

A Glimpse into the World of Agile Technical Writing, a.k.a. Extreme Technical Writing (XTW) | Feb 19, 2008

Technical Writing Careers -- Answering 13 Questions about Technical Writing Jobs | Feb 16, 2008

A Web 2.0 Documentation Idea Gone Wrong | Feb 6, 2008

Three new resources to check out | Sep 8, 2007

Wikis in Documentation: Ann Gentle Asks, Can Wikis Stand Alone, or Must They Be Supplements? | Jun 26, 2007

Installing Mediawiki Is Much Easier Than The Instructions Suggest -- My Quick 10 Step Tutorial for Installing Mediawiki | Jun 14, 2007

Wikis in Action — The Top 57 Wikis by Rank | May 8, 2007

Setting Up a Wiki in a Few Minutes — Installing Dokuwiki | May 6, 2007

Single Sourcing Wiki Tools for the Enterprise — Traction TeamPage5? | Mar 29, 2007

Wikinomics: Combining Wikis with Economics; the More You Share, the More You Win | Mar 8, 2007

Video on SharePoint 2007 Wiki, Blog, and RSS Functionality from Microsoft's Channel 9 | Feb 7, 2007

RoboHelp to Wiki Conversion Tool | Feb 5, 2007

Using Wikis as Project Documentation Tools | Feb 3, 2007