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Ask HN: Anybody from big enterprises use internal Wikis?

by thunderbong·8y ago·3 comments·view on hn ↗
I'm thinking of suggesting an internal wiki system for the team in my organization.

Would like to know how far this has been successful especially in an enterprise scenario.

Also any suggestions of fast/easy Wiki sofwares would help as our team consists technical, non-technical (customer facing) and QA people.

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Among the large organisations using internal Wikis is the CIA:

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...

As with other technology, a key element of adoption is actually creating a culture of use and support, as well as internal advocates and management buy-in.

I'd argue that if your organisation doesn't presently have a wiki, it's well behind the times. Though that may be a bit of a bias on my part. Looking through NNGroup (Jacob Nielsen's Internet usability site, which focuses strongly on intranets), they're not heavily mentioned, though they do turn up.

We use gitlab, but it's very developer-centric. For general use, maybe something like www.knowledgeowl.com
we use mediawiki and confluence. Confluence is slow.