Number of survey participants (click image)
In June I started an English version of my online survey about the use of Wikis in Enterprises. Until now 212 people participated in the German survey, and 69 people took the English survey (of this 69 partic…

I thoroughly enjoyed the post actually, not only from the perspective of helping spread the word around about the survey in wikis but because of the great example you have shared with us all on how you can get to use Wikipedia as part of a reference or research task. I doubt there is a better resource out there at the moment, other than Wikipedia itself. At least, for the purpose of examples like you have detailed above. Fantastic !

It is cases like that that come to explain further how wikis could be used in an corporate environment in such a way that for it to be beneficial you would first need to build up a critical amount of meaningful data that people would find interesting and engaging enough. Then from there you can certainly help build up further from there. For instance, the example you provided about the facilitation of a wiki for a project you are working on and not getting much success about it I think that could be due because you may not have yet enough critical mass, of both people and wiki pages, to let it be self-sufficient, but also that perhaps you may be using a wiki engine that may not be as straight forward as you would expect. Right now there are a number of good examples of wikis making use of WYSIWYG editors and perhaps if you are not using one of those you may want to have a look into some other options and see how you would go with them. They are great at helping get the message across to people that participating in a wiki is pretty much like sending an e-mail or writing a document.

Anyway, thanks again for the plug and appreciated the lovely post!