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Wikis are good for inter-tech communication, awful for collaborating with unwilling non-techies.

At a previous job, wikis made programmers management's markup bitch. We got bug reports like "Edit ${SALES/NOVEMBER} to reflect new figures from Marketing Marc" .. when Marc himself could edit the damn page.

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ive had the same experience. i set up a wiki for a large multi mil project for a group of non technical employees, and brought so much additional work on myself (can you edit x page) that in the end it just wasnt worth it. some people just dont understand that they can edit the pages themselves.

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