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| Company | Wiki Name | Description | Type | Uses | Benefits | Wiki Software / Hosting Service | Reference |
| Aperture Technologies | After one year of seeing his first wiki in late 2003, Nicholas Pisarro, Jr, founder of the software company Aperture Technologies, Inc., had wikis transforming the way people work. | Internal | Employees used wikis to brainstorm, track projects, write and edit documentation, and coordinate marketing. | Countless meetings, conference calls, and back-and-forth e-mails were eliminated by using wikis. Says Pisarro: "Wikis allow this collaboration much better than anything else, so we get things done faster." | Robert Hof, Business Week Online, "Something wiki this way comes" (June 7, 2004) | ||
| Cardiff Council (UK Local Government 18, 000 staff) | Cardiff Knowledge Bank | A Knowledge Management pilot covering projects and risks | Internal | Collaborative working Information sharing Knowledge Management | Access to consistent information Efficiency savings | MediaWiki | (contact t.riches@cardiff.gov.uk) |
| Carbon Five a small company based in San Francisco and Los Angeles that develops enterprise web applications for clients | On the wiki, each client gets its own space. The area is used by the company to collaborate on projects with its clients | External | Used as an extranet for collaboration with the client | ||||
| Disney Corporation | Uses wiki technology as part of an information sharing strategy | Internal | Uses: internal discussion idea generation documentation | Andersen | |||
| Dresdner Kleinwort IT department, London office | In October 2006, 5,000 employees had created more than 6,000 individual wiki pages and logged more than 100,000 hits on the company's official wiki | (Internal?) | | Carlin Business Week March 12, 2007 | |||
| eBay | eBay Wiki | Used a wiki to create a better overall customer service experience for their users, suppliers, and partners No longer available | External | Unknown | |||
| IBM Corporation | IBM developerWorks Wiki | Wiki used as a part of the developer network It includes topics such as: - Lotus Quickr Best Practices - J2EE Systems Management - Websphere Instructor Wiki - Series of Web 2.0 Goes to Work conferences | External | ||||
| IBM DITA Wiki | A wiki-like colloboration site based on DITA topics and maps as its core content type. It was originally designed to support content contribution by subject matter experts who create their content as fully standard, interoperable DITA content. | Internal | Agile project teams for both project info and related API collateral that can end up as customer documentation or support documentation. Product or solution teams needing to collaborate on whitepapers. Internal workgroups needing to collaborate on standards and guidelines. API and message definition by group collaboration. Collaboration on support & config information. | Reuse of topics in multiple maps. Content can be republished in multiple formats using DITA Open Toolkit. Ease of content review and update at all times during a development phase. Ease of correction at review. Live redisplay of the source DITA content (no static pages) | PHP application on Apache. | Don Day, Austin Tx (dond at us dot ibm dot com) | |
| Microsoft Corporation | MSDN Wiki Microsoft Developer Network | An essential source of information for developers using Microsoft tools, products, technologies, and services |
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| Nokia Nokia Research Center in Helsinki | To collaborate on solving product-design problems and to explore alternatives to e-mail and collaborative software | Internal | 20% of 68K employees used wiki pages
| Carlin Business Week March 12, 2007 | |||
| Pixar | Used a wiki internally to manage film production | Internal | Used to help coordinate new computerized animation tools for Pixar's planned 2008 release of the WALL-E film | Mader's blog | |||
| Red Ant | The aim is to try to get as much information on each project written down. The Wiki has become the main interface with customers – a kind of a mixture of intranet and extranet. | External | Uses: Receptacle for information PLUS store meeting notes brainstorming wireframes snippets of code presentation of visual designs | Benefits: - Allowed everyone to contribute and to participate - Everyone able to add and to reshape content (involving more people) - Supportive of its collaborative workflow | Atlassian Confluence | Red Ant Blog, "How We WIKI" (November 28, 2006) | |
| SAP | SAP Developer Network Wiki | Wikis used as part of the developer network | External | Mader's blog | |||
| Sony Ericsson | The Sony Ericsson Developer World Wiki | A place for application developers | External | Information on how its technologies are used in Sony Ericsson phones To share ideas and information It includes "house rules" or guidelines for community members | Mader's blog | ||
| Stata Laboratories, Inc. | Benefits: - Working on a wiki cut the number of daily phone calls made on projects each each - Wikis also allowed Stata to outsource more work Aaron Burcell, director of marketing, said "I could justify the cost of the wiki just from the lower teleconferencing bills." | Robert Hof, Business Week Online, "Something wiki this way comes" (June 7, 2004) | |||||
| Sun Microsystems | Sun Wikis (a directory of over 120 wiki spaces) Example: Sun CMT Wiki | Where contributors inside and outside of Sun Microsystems can share information with each other, and with the world The content in the Sun Wikis is organized into spaces. Site visitors just click on one of the spaces listed on the home page to begin browsing the wikis. Over 120 wiki spaces are listed | External | Examples: Sun CMT Wiki - a wiki for Chip Multi-threaded (CMT) technology, includes documentation, reviews, technical white papers and a developer center Wiki Tips - tips on creating wiki spaces and using Confluence Acrowiki - Sun's Acronym Wiki Sun Cluster Wiki Twitter Users at Sun - a list of Twitter users at Sun, including employee name, Twitter handle, role, and what they Twitter about | Atlassian Confluence | ||
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