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09/09/2004 Entry: "Microsoft Wiki SIG"

Jack and I went to the Wiki chat at Microsoft yesterday after work (what is wiki?). This is an unofficial gathering, spinning off Ward Cunningham, Wiki inventor, who joined MS last year. He didn't attend this month but a couple of other guys did. Jack's been getting some traction on a Wiki for his work group so they talked about that. My contribution was limited to the difficulty of getting people to use a Wiki if they aren't familiar with it (that's what happened on the Potlatch committee last time round).

Funny, on the way into the cafeteria I ran into Chris Anderson, who was on the IE team with me way back in 97-99. I read all kinds of MS bloggers but I wasn't reading him! Now I am.

Posted by jeffy @ 09/10/2004 03:05 PM PST

There is an ASP.Net based wiki called FlexWiki that was developed by an MS employee in his spare time. That is also the same wiki software they use for Channel 9.

When I set up a wiki for my workgroup I decided to use SushiWiki because it was also ASP.Net, but somewhat simpler to set up. It doesn't have some of the really cool wiki features, but it does provide all the basic ones, including versioning and user-controlled page updates.

Posted by Jack William Bell @ 09/09/2004 06:49 PM PST

Which wiki software does MS use? I set up one using twiki at tomecat for a community project I was involved in, but that one is pretty unix/apache-centric. I've been wanting to set one up at work but I need something that works with IIS and is nearly plug and play because I don't know anything about IIS.

Posted by jeffy @ 09/09/2004 02:08 PM PST