* This book provides practical, proven advice for encouraging adoption of your wiki project and growing it into a useful collaboration tool or vibrant online community
* Gives wiki users a toolbox of thriving wiki patterns, which enable newcomers to avoid making common mistakes or fumbling around for the solutions to the same problems as their predecessors
* Explains the major stages of wiki adoption and explores patterns that apply to each stage
* Presents concrete, proven examples of techniques that have helped people grow vibrant collaborative communities and change the way they work for the better
* Reviews the overall process, including setting up initial content, encouraging people to contribute, dealing with disruptive elements, fixing typos and broken links, making sure pages are in their correct categories, and more

A combination of a web page and a Word document, a wiki is a tool that's simple like email but powerful enough to reduce your cluttered inbox and busy meeting schedule. Wikipatterns will help you learn how to build a 21st-century tool for collaboration, whether your team is in the same office or split among offices around the world. Wikis can transform business collaboration, and you'll learn the ins and outs of making the most of this enduring collaboration tool. This book answers questions like:

* What is a wiki?
* How does an organization's wiki differ from Wikipedia?
* How do I make a case for using a wiki?
* What's the best way to get started?
* How do wikis change an organization's culture?
* How do wikis "fit" with other collaboration tools?
* What are the patterns of use and behavior that positively and negatively affect the wiki?
* How do I encourage participation and make the wiki "stick" as an idea and a tool?