VILSC 2018
Scott Leslie
BC Libraries Cooperative

• Who are you? <
• Do you currently wiki? If not - why not? <
• Who am I?

• We're not a library. we have a lot of tech-saavy people on staff.
  

• We do open source as exclusively as possible
  

• We are super cost-aware, don't like to spend when we don't have to
  

• Easy collaborative document editing and creation
• Easy search and browse
• Improve transparency and help reduce silos
• Anticipate knowledge growth even before it happens

• Open source, mature, lots of plugins - https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugins
• Document based, not database
• Git backed, which means key staff can have an offline version of the wiki on their laptops
• Ability to move pages and namespaces (means you don't have to get it perfect the first time)

• Access control - can control both visibility and editabling; can include public sections
• Re-skinning; the nav bars are actually wiki pages!
• Easily embed other content calendars list of google docs in a folder
• Can host structured data and offer ways to export it?

• If you have even a few people using it - don't kill it, build on it!
• Redesign, info architecture
• Gardening! together and separately

• Very small groups/locations - a binder may make a ton more sense
• Non-volatile information - may not be the best way to handle official policy docs you don't want edited