Have you introduced a friend of yours to a wiki? For first timers, wikis can be intimidating. Where do I start? How do I edit? Wait, you’re telling me that EVERYONE can SEE and CHANGE my work? Wikis can be intimidating to the uninitiated. Wikis bring with them new ways of thinking about information, collaboration, and management.If you bring a wiki into your organization, you may face challenges and pitfalls when trying to get people to use it. I helped develop a new site called Wikipatterns.com which was intended to give anyone, anywhere, using any wiki application, a source of information (a pattern) for successfully introducing a wiki to their community, whether it’s a corporation or a public website.

Wikipatterns.com is itself a wiki, which means you can add your knowledge to it too… so please do so! Some of the wiki “patterns” that are being documented have been created by staff at Atlassian, but the majority were created by a larger community of experts and wiki users. We’re also documenting anti-patterns that might hinder wiki growth, things to watch out for altogether.

The site also contains a guide to the major stages of wiki adoption, and links to other sites that focus on wiki, social software, and enterprise 2.0 strategies. Since launch less than a month ago, the response has been terrific. Wikipatterns has grown from 29 to 48 patterns, currently has 164 contributors, and people have had good things to say about it (a few blog mentions are pasted below).
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