Enterprise Knowledge Management and Emerging Technologies
HICSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 03
Using Wikis in Software Development
IEEE Software
A wiki instance in the enterprise: opportunities, concerns and reality
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Using Wiki technology to support student engagement: Lessons from the trenches
Computers & Education
Using Wikis to Support Constructivist Learning: A Case Study in University Education Settings
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
WikiVet: building a community of practice to support a self-sustaining wiki for veterinary education
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Factors impeding Wiki use in the enterprise: a case study
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Wikis at work: success factors and challenges for sustainability of enterprise Wikis
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
a DSL for corporate wiki initialization
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Scalability of assessments of wiki-based learning experiences in higher education
Computers in Human Behavior
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Organizational wikis are framed by an existing organization. This makes these wikis be especially vigilant upon (1) facilitating the alignment of the wiki with organizational practices, (2) engaging management or (3), promoting employees' participation. To this end, we advocate for the use of "wiki scaffoldings". A wiki scaffolding is a wiki installation that is provided at the onset, before any contribution is made. It aims to frame wiki contribution along the concerns already known in the hosting organization in terms of glossaries, schedules, organigrams and the like. Thus, wiki contributions do not start from scratch but within a known setting. This paper introduces a language to capture wiki scaffolding in terms of FreeMind's mind maps. These maps can later be mapped into wiki installations in MediaWiki. The paper seeks to validate the approach in a twofold manner. Firstly, by providing literature quotes that suggest the need for scaffolding. Secondly, by providing scaffolding examples for wikis reported in the literature. The findings suggest that wiki scaffolding can be useful to smoothly align wiki activity along the practices of the hosting organization from the onset.