Wickis

One advantage of wickis is that everyone knows something that no one else, or very few people know. This can be an advantage in creating things like subject guides. The collective input will result in a greater breadth and depth of coverage than any one person could provide. In our department we are experimenting with a wicki that will include documentation. The feeling is that the people closest to the work should have input into what the documentation says. A downside to wickis is that they assume everyone is going to be cooperative; not always a valid assumption