Tag: wiki

Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community

We must transform the Intelligence Community into a community that dynamically reinvents itself by continuously learning and adapting as the national security environment changes. These changes include allowing our officers more autonomy in the context of improved tradecraft and information sharing. In addition, several new technologies will facilitate this transformation. 2 examples are self-organizing knowledge websites, known as Wikis, and information sharing websites known as Blogs.

Document-based communication

# Tell me why you like wikis.
Wiki, briefly, are the hottest thing in Social Software right now. All this “friendster” stuff is important, but it’s just a ruse. People don’t see the real revolution that wiki represents. Wiki is terribly important because it’s the first public communication system that is DOCUMENT based. Instant Messaging, E-Mail, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Online Message Boards, all this stuff-
It’s all MESSAGE based.
It’s a “quick signal.” You send a message to someone, and they do something different than they would have done before. “Someone.” Sometimes even a group of people. Maybe you’re on a mailing list, or something. After the message is done, it’s spent. It’s indexed by google, and someone looking for something can find your message amidst a sea of messages, and try to apply it to their situation.
But wiki is totally different. It’s document based.
The fundamental element of a wiki is the document. It’s not a one-off message. (Though, you CAN attach messages to the bottom of a wiki page. Very common.) It’s something that people can use, and refer back to, time and time again.

marrying wikis and SCM

when i met gstein last night he made me aware of subwiki. subwiki is a wiki built on top of subversion. this has several advantages over other wikis:

  • Each edit is a real change set
  • you can access the wiki over WebDAV
  • the wiki handles attachments seamlessly

if subwiki delivers on its promise, it will be a very powerful tool for document management, km and collaboration.