Build a wiki, share the world
December 2007
Share files across the building, across the campus or across the globe. Keep track of tasks and manage projects.
To do these and a lot more, Duke students, faculty and staff should consider a wiki—DukeWiki. Starting this fall, Duke OIT began offering a wiki specifically designed for the Duke community.
A wiki is a collaborative Web space in which members can freely create and edit content using any Web browser. Unlike traditional Web pages, which only the owner can change, wikis enable timely, group-driven collaboration—any member of a group that has wiki space can add to or change that group’s content.
So far, more than 80 groups have set up sites, allowing nearly 300 users to easily share information and collaborate online with no training, no software to download and no special skills required. The Web-based wiki technology allows users to build secure team sites, project management sites, collaboration sites and more—with ease.
Wiki spaces are great for workgroups or other communities that want to share and jointly modify documents like project notes, meeting minutes and lists.
Individual space “owners” control their portion of the wiki site and grant access via Duke NetIDs. You can restrict viewing to certain Duke affiliates or make spaces publicly browseable on the Web. Even if they’re made public, however, DukeWiki pages can be edited only by those Duke affiliates whom the owners allow to edit the space, not the general public.
More details at http://wiki.duke.edu.