Possible wiki applications:<br><br><b>Internal use:</b> collaborative writing for projects/presentations etc; building up a knowledge base for the department; input from internal users<br><br><b>External use: </b>projects with artists/art [/art history] students based around archive holdings; comment on catalogue records to share information (as with TNA); content and discussion based around digitised material to engage [?]younger users.<br><br>Strengths and weaknesses:<br><br>Quick and easy to get started - but does not appear easy to customise in detail<br>Reaching different users - but will they care? how will they find it?<br>Control/trust<br>FOI/copyright/defamation... legal hurdles<br>Have to ask - are we led by the technology or what we want to do with it? Is there a better way?<br>Problems meshing with existing technology eg. website/intranet<br>More flexible and approachable than some existing channels<br>Good version tracking - but who holds it?<br><br>Need for clear format, conventions of how to present information - or a page edited by many people may become confusing!<br><br>Link to <a href="/page/Topics+For+General+Discussion" target="_top" title="general discussion">general discussion</a>.<br><br>Is a wiki just an epemeral conversation? If not, how do we maintain and preserve it?