Intranet wikis

Historically, when business organizations realized that web technology could also be used internally, the development of intra-webs took off rapidly. In 2002, several studies showed that 75% of web servers where running behind enterprise firewalls. For years, the World Wide Web has been a de facto read only media where anyone could browse and only a very few could publish. Similarly for intra-webs: the one webmaster syndrome killed in the egg the potential for collaboration and sharing. On the World Wide Web things have changed rapidly in the last two years with the emergence of Blogs and Wikis: the Web started to turn into a more writable media. The browser can be used now to edit and create content like the very first browser which Tim Berner’s Lee wrote in the early 90’s. So, with a little delay, wikis and blogs started to appear in the intranet world as well. In this paper, we present the wiki concept and focus on its use in the intranet context, both in academic and in business organizations.