--- title: "Wikis" description: "Posts in the wiki category touch upon wiki-related topics. Wikis were once a dominant way of publishing tech docs that isn" canonical_url: https://idratherbewriting.com/category-wikis/ --- # 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?](/2017/03/08/crowdsourcing-docs-with-github-docs-as-code-tools-same-as-wikis/) | Mar 8, 2017 #### [When are wikis ever successful?](/2015/07/30/when-are-wikis-ever-successful/) | Jul 30, 2015 #### [DocOps: Interview with Jim Turcotte](/2014/10/21/docops-interview-with-jim-turcotte/) | Oct 21, 2014 #### [Two major Confluence problems: poor content re-use and lack of wiki markup](/2014/09/24/two-major-confluence-problems-poor-content-re-use-and-no-wiki-markup/) | Sep 24, 2014 #### [Strategies for content re-use in Confluence](/2014/06/24/strategies-for-content-re-use-in-confluence/) | Jun 24, 2014 #### [Complex tools versus simple tools](/2014/05/10/complex-tools-versus-simple-tools/) | May 10, 2014 #### [Moving Between the Agora and the Desert](/2012/12/16/moving-between-the-agora-and-the-desert/) | Dec 16, 2012 #### [Turning Point (Wikis)](/2012/06/17/turning-point-wikis/) | Jun 17, 2012 #### [Writing Is Harder Than Most Think (Wikis)](/2012/06/16/writing-is-harder-than-most-think-wikis/) | Jun 16, 2012 #### [A Guiding Metaphor (Wikis)](/2012/06/15/a-guiding-metaphor-wikis/) | Jun 15, 2012 #### [Community and Collaboration (Wikis)](/2012/06/14/community-and-collaboration-wikis/) | Jun 14, 2012 #### [Some Wiki Basics (Wikis)](/2012/06/13/some-wiki-basics-wikis/) | Jun 13, 2012 #### [Is Collaborative Authoring Over-Hyped?](/2012/06/12/is-collaborative-authoring-over-hyped/) | Jun 12, 2012 #### [The Need for Constant Updates (Wikis)](/2012/06/12/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](/2012/06/11/essay-my-journey-to-and-from-wikis-why-i-adopted-wikis-why-i-veered-away-from-them-and-a-new-model-for-collaboration/) | Jun 11, 2012 #### [Upcoming STC Webinar: Creating Help in a Wiki Environment](/2012/06/05/upcoming-stc-webinar-creating-help-in-a-wiki-environment/) | Jun 5, 2012 #### [Confab 2012: Thoughts and Reactions](/2012/05/19/confab-2012-thoughts-and-reactions/) | May 19, 2012 #### [Differences between blogs and wikis, and why you might need both](/2012/04/19/differences-between-blogs-and-wikis-and-why-you-might-need-both/) | Apr 19, 2012 #### [Guest Post: Why I Love Wikis](/2012/04/14/guest-post-why-i-love-wikis/) | Apr 14, 2012 #### [Subpage Titles on Wikis -- Challenges, Conventions, and Compromises](/2012/03/22/subpage-titles-on-wikis/) | Mar 22, 2012 #### [Guest Post: Wikis Are the Future of Technical Documentation](/2012/03/20/guest-post-wikis-are-the-future-of-technical-documentation/) | Mar 20, 2012 #### [Why don't technical writers use wikis — or do they?](/2012/02/24/why-dont-technical-writers-use-wikis-or-do-they/) | Feb 24, 2012 #### [What I Learned About Tech Comm During 2011](/2011/12/28/what-i-learned-during-2011/) | Dec 28, 2011 #### [Wiki Culture, Reader/Writer Distinctions, and Divergence from Structured Authoring](/2011/11/19/wiki-culture-readerwriter-distinctions-and-divergence-from-structured-authoring/) | Nov 19, 2011 #### [Why I Returned to Wikis for Help Authoring](/2011/11/14/why-i-returned-to-wikis-for-an-authoring-platform/) | Nov 14, 2011 #### [Diverging Directions for Tech Comm: Social Media or Structured Authoring](/2011/06/09/diverging-directions-for-tech-comm-social-media-or-structured-authoring/) | Jun 9, 2011 #### [The Real Source of Findability](/2011/03/10/the-real-source-of-findability/) | Mar 10, 2011 #### [Review of Alan Porter's Wiki: Grow Your Own for Fun and Profit](/2010/11/25/review-of-alan-porters-wiki-grow-your-own-for-fun-and-profit/) | Nov 25, 2010 #### [Forum → Wiki → Blog Workflow](/2010/11/24/forum-wiki-blog-workflow/) | Nov 24, 2010 #### [Using Mediawiki Templates to Organize Content [Organizing Content 13]](/2010/06/09/using-mediawiki-templates-to-organize-content-organizing-content-13/) | Jun 9, 2010 #### [From Help Authoring Tools to Web Tools, Especially Wikis [Organizing Content 12]](/2010/06/03/from-help-authoring-tools-to-web-tools-especially-wikis-organizing-content-12/) | Jun 3, 2010 #### [Podcast: Trends in Technical Communication](/2010/04/25/podcast-trends-in-technical-communication/) | Apr 25, 2010 #### [Design Fixations with Mediawiki Skins](/2009/12/14/design-fixations-with-mediawiki-skins/) | Dec 14, 2009 #### [Ramping Up on Mediawiki](/2009/12/06/ramping-up-on-mediawiki/) | Dec 6, 2009 #### [Wikis and the Holy Grail of Content Independence](/2009/11/02/wikis-and-the-holy-grail-of-content-independence/) | Nov 2, 2009 #### [A Few Surprises in Using a Wiki for Documentation](/2009/10/29/a-few-surprises-in-using-a-wiki-for-documentation/) | Oct 29, 2009 #### [How Do Blogs and Wikis Fit Together?](/2009/09/08/how-do-blogs-and-wikis-fit-together/) | Sep 8, 2009 #### [Podcast with Anne Gentle about her Conversation and Community book](/2009/08/26/podcast-about-conversation-and-community/) | Aug 26, 2009 #### [Review of Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation](/2009/08/24/review-of-conversation-and-community-the-social-web-for-documentation-by-anne-gentle/) | Aug 24, 2009 #### [Exporting Documentation to Wikis](/2009/08/10/porting-documentation-to-wikis-problems-and-possibilities/) | Aug 10, 2009 #### [Is This Meeting Really Necessary?](/2009/07/15/is-this-meeting-really-necessary/) | Jul 15, 2009 #### [Implementing a Department Wiki? A Writer Shares Some Dos and Don'ts (Guest Post)](/2009/06/30/implementing-a-department-wiki-a-writer-shares-some-dos-and-donts-guest-post/) | Jun 30, 2009 #### [Anne Gentle on her Forthcoming Book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation](/2009/05/27/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](/2009/04/15/anne-gentle-to-give-virtual-presentation-on-wikis-tomorrow-thursday/) | Apr 15, 2009 #### [Can SharePoint 2007 Be Used as a Help Authoring Tool?](/2009/02/11/can-sharepoint-be-used-as-a-help-authoring-tool/) | Feb 11, 2009 #### [Twitter Part II –- One Step Deeper](/2008/12/05/twitter-part-ii-going-deeper/) | Dec 5, 2008 #### [Podcast: Debunking the Boredom Myth of Technical Writing](/2008/11/03/podcast-debunking-the-boredom-myth-of-technical-writing/) | Nov 3, 2008 #### [FLOSSmanuals.net: A New Wiki Help Authoring/Publishing Tool Hybrid](/2008/09/05/flossmanualsnet-a-new-wiki-help-authoringpublishing-tool-hybrid/) | Sep 5, 2008 #### [Scott Nesbitt Interview with Stewart Mader on Wikis](/2008/05/20/scott-nesbitt-interview-with-stewart-mader-on-wikis/) | May 20, 2008 #### [SharePoint Wikis: Both Liberating and Frustrating](/2008/05/17/sharepoint-wikis-both-liberating-and-frustrating/) | May 17, 2008 #### [Giving a Virtual Presentation to STC-Phoenix on Tuesday, May 13](/2008/05/12/giving-a-virtual-presentation-to-stc-phoenix-on-tuesday-may-13/) | May 12, 2008 #### [Podcast: Embracing Wikis -- Interview with Stewart Mader](/2008/05/10/podcast-using-a-wiki-for-your-technical-documentation-interview-with-stewart-mader/) | May 10, 2008 #### [Podcast: Leading Your Company into the Wikis, Blogs, and Social Networks of Web 2.0](/2008/05/06/podcast-pushing-your-company-into-the-wikis-blogs-and-social-networks-of-web-20-interview-with-alan-porter-of-webworks/) | May 6, 2008 #### [A Glimpse into the World of Agile Technical Writing, a.k.a. Extreme Technical Writing (XTW)](/2008/02/19/a-glimpse-into-the-world-of-agile-technical-writing-aka-extreme-technical-writing-xtw/) | Feb 19, 2008 #### [Technical Writing Careers -- Answering 13 Questions about Technical Writing Jobs](/2008/02/16/technical-writing-careers-answering-13-questions-about-technical-writing-jobs/) | Feb 16, 2008 #### [A Web 2.0 Documentation Idea Gone Wrong](/2008/02/06/a-web-20-documentation-idea-gone-wrong/) | Feb 6, 2008 #### [Three new resources to check out](/2007/09/08/three-new-resources-to-check-out/) | Sep 8, 2007 #### [Wikis in Documentation: Ann Gentle Asks, Can Wikis Stand Alone, or Must They Be Supplements?](/2007/06/26/wikis-in-documentation-ann-gentle-asks-can-wikis-stand-alone-or-must-they-be-supplements-only/) | Jun 26, 2007 #### [Installing Mediawiki Is Much Easier Than The Instructions Suggest -- My Quick 10 Step Tutorial for Installing Mediawiki](/2007/06/14/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](/2007/05/08/top-57-wikis-2/) | May 8, 2007 #### [Setting Up a Wiki in a Few Minutes — Installing Dokuwiki](/2007/05/06/installing-dokuwiki/) | May 6, 2007 #### [Single Sourcing Wiki Tools for the Enterprise — Traction TeamPage5?](/2007/03/29/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](/2007/03/08/wikinomics-combining-wikis-with-economics/) | Mar 8, 2007 #### [Video on SharePoint 2007 Wiki, Blog, and RSS Functionality from Microsoft's Channel 9](/2007/02/07/video-demointerview-on-sharepoint-2007-wiki-blog-and-rss-functionality-from-microsofts-channel-9/) | Feb 7, 2007 #### [RoboHelp to Wiki Conversion Tool](/2007/02/05/robohelp-to-wiki-conversion-tool/) | Feb 5, 2007 #### [Using Wikis as Project Documentation Tools](/2007/02/03/using-wikis-as-project-documentation-tools/) | Feb 3, 2007