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Wikis for Supporting Distributed Collaborative Writing

Overview Wikis allow distributed teams to collaboratively write and edit documents through the Internet in a shared online workspace, without the need for special HTML knowledge or tools. The flexibility of wiki technology is a boon for increased cooperative work on large team projects. However, wiki technology also complicates notions of usable design as the information architecture of a wiki site may be created on the fly by all participants rather than by a dedicated technical communicator. This paper describes the basic technology of wikis, some advantages and disadvantages, and areas of concern with regard to information design.

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Publisher	Society for Technical Communication	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2005	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
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