Spring 2009 Meeting Presentation:  A Wiki Welcome

by Amy Wharton

Research and Emerging Technologies Librarian

University of Virginia School of Law Library

May 22, 2009

Choosing a Platform

• Decision factors:
  • Nature of your organization and the wiki audience (academic, law firm)
  • Cost factors (e.g., PBWorks gives free sites to educational organizations, nonprofits and libraries)
  • Need to protect security, privacy
  • Public vs. private read access
  • Public vs. private write access
  • Page-level access
  • Space needs (PBWorks = 2GB free, or 40GB for educational institutions)
  • How much control?
  • Does it need to be usable by mobile users?
  • Can the features that are important to you be integrated into the site (e.g., traffic monitoring)?

     

• Popular free wiki hosts on the web:
  • PBWorks
  • Google Sites
  • WetPaint

     

• Enterprise wikis
  • MS SharePoint (popular for intranets)

See http://www.wikimatrix.org/ to compare wiki software.