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> From: David Gerard <[email protected]>
>To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list 
><[email protected]> 
>Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:36 PM
>Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Reorganizing your wiki when the whole world 
>changes...?
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>On 3 November 2014 18:35, Al <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Since MW is designed around a crowdsourcing model, I would just get 
>> volunteers from all parts of the company to help update the wiki.  That will 
>> 1.) point-out the helpful employees of the company, 2.) be very educational 
>> for the editors about the new company organization, 3.) promote 
>> collaboration amongst diverse groups within the company.  Yes, updating the 
>> whole wiki with just a handful of editors would suck and the quality would 
>> probably suffer too.  But, with fifty to a hundred editors, a piece of cake 
>> and the results would probably be much better.
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>In my experience of intranet wikis, any plan that starts with "1.
>Other people will lift a finger" doesn't ever work out that way :-)
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>Of course, that option/directive would have to come from company leadership.  
>You tend to find more volunteers the higher-up the asker ;0)  SMW would be 
>just as much work, if not more, if they aren't already using it.

al



>It's possible a bit of applied SMW will do what Dan needs, or pointing
>AutoWikiBrowser at it maybe. (I've never pointed AWB at anything other
>than en.wikipedia,org, so I have no experience in actually doing that
>last one.)
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>- d.
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