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Re:Wikipedia is a wild success and an utter failure by twopounder on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @09:55AM (#3130124)
The true achievement of Wikipedia is not in its content, but its groundwork. Every company should maintain its own internal and external wikis, even if only employees can access or modify them.

It simplifies distribution of documentation and files in a very user friendly way.

And let's face it. Whack jobs write books and news paper columns too. Wikipedia has a surprising amount in common with college text books.

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Re:Wikipedia is a wild success and an utter failure by eru on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @04:51PM (#3132037)
We know that Wikis are useful. Wikipedia wasn't the first wiki.
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Re:Wikipedia is a wild success and an utter failure by twopounder on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @05:21PM (#3132159)
Unless its 2001 and your company's documentation is stored on a shared drive. Heck, when I graduated in 2009, my college was still keeping all of its documents in a maze of ntfs shares.

You don't have to be the first to lay the groundwork either.

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