The 2007 edition of SharePoint brings with it this lovely little thing called a Wiki. We use this internally to collect, store and access much of our information. If you’ve learned something new (something that’s work related, that is), that’s where you put it.
It’s great because you don’t have to think about WHERE to put your knowledge. There’s just one place to go.
Now, here’s an interesting albeit not new question: How do you best run or maintain your Wiki? Do you give everyone free access to just write in the Wiki and hope they’ll pay attention to your style guide (which I dare say is needed to make the Wiki usable)? Do you give everyone free access but determine one or more on the staff who’ll check articles every now and then and give them a polish if needed (might work in a small companies but what about medium and large ones…)? Or do you install a body (as in a member of the staff or a group of people) who receives articles meant for your Wiki and makes sure the quality and the style is ok?
Again, these aren’t new questions but for me, anyway, it’s the first time I’m faced with them directly. To a certain extent, the problem seems self solving in that it’s mostly the same group of people contributing (which usually happen to be those people who maintain your SharePoint stuff and make the style guides for it anyway…).
So, what’s your experience with this?