Wiki - Why a Wiki

Why do I want a Wiki? I would like a central repository for notes. These notes become the framework for design documents, and documentation. As a developer and a system administrator, I work on multiple machines with multiple platforms. The most common denominator is the network. The next is that there is a web browser. Also, my notes are generally text based, since a text editor is available on all platforms, and generally, a text editor does not screw with the source code within a document. It not try to correct the capitalization, or expand abbreviations.

Basically, when I am working on an issue at a machine that is not my desktop, I don't have to wait til I back to my machine with the proper version of word to document the solution.

Most wiki's work on a common format that can be close text document.

=== A Heading ===
* List 1
** List A
* List 2

Table Below
| Column 1 row 1| Column 2 row 1|
| Column 1 row 2 | Column 2 row 2 |



In addition, many wiki's allow for source code formating, which means that code (c#, XML) will be "pretty printed".

The Basics

So this is why would like to have a wiki as the knowledge repository.
Why Not?

Advanced Reasons

Wiki are generally open to encourage collaboration. They do not need to be open, but they should always be collaborative.

Other reasons for a wiki: