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You can solve these problems by giving every critical project information deliverable
its own wiki page. As that information changes, the page is updated, not duplicated.
When someone updates this page, everyone interested in the page is notified of the
change through RSS or on My Page.
If you want to look at an old version of the schedule, you can view the page history
and see a page version for every time someone updated the page. Because the page
history shows when pages were changed, you can refer to the older versions of the
schedule by the time and date shown in the page history.
Managing Project Personnel
Over a project’s lifespan, personnel might change or the responsibilities of the
personnel might change. By adding a team page to a project wiki, you can inform
everyone of who’s doing what on a team without sending out email announcements.
If someone assumes a new role, they can update the team page with their new role,
which reduces the amount of work to maintain the page’s information.
Parallelizing Effort
Wikis parallelize effort by allowing many people to simultaneously edit many pages
or continually refine content on the same page.
If a team is working on a number of projects, every team member can update
pages pertaining to his or her projects without consulting a central person. The wiki
eliminates the need for an information manager, someone who is knowledgeable
about all projects and gathers information about them.
Every team is responsible for editing their project pages and all project pages are
linked together by a hub page or by tags. The wiki becomes a self-sustaining system
that doesn’t require a central person.
If several people are working on the same page, the wiki can help streamline and
parallelize effort. When someone updates page content, the people who are interested
in the page are notified that the page was updated through RSS or on My Page. When
people make content updates, all interested parties are notified.
If two people edit a page simultaneously, the last person to save is notified that
someone else saved the page first and the last person to save can overwrite the saved
page or cancel his or her edits.
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