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June 26, 2007 by annegentle

Wiki for tech pubs – ready for main dish status? Or still undercooked or side dish material?

I’ve been doing some research for an article for the STC Intercom based on the interview I did with a friend of mine who does maintenance on the MOTO Q wiki. The article will come out this fall and I can’t wait to see if any rousing discussion appears on the STC forums. In the […]

Filed Under: agile, wiki Tagged With: agile, article, customer support, forum, Intercom, social media, STC, technical writing, wiki, writing

April 20, 2007 by annegentle

Wikis for technical documentation, one writer’s story

An interview with Emily Kaplan, a technical writer and former co-worker of mine, who maintains a wiki for Motorola A good friend of mine, Emily Kaplan, was kind enough to let me interview her via email to find out more about her experience with managing a wiki for technical documentation. She writes for the Motorola […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: MotoQ, Motorola, wiki, wikipedia

September 22, 2006 by annegentle

What if users wrote the manuals?

A real world look at wikis with Wikipedia as the case study… who is creating that content, anyway? Inner gang? Mini empires? Am I talking about the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia? Why yes, yes I am. I’m reading “Who Writes Wikipedia” which is a study on how Wikipedia is edited and maintained. Is it really “a […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: content creator, DITA wiki, documentation, editor, tech pubs, technical communications, technical publications, technical writer, technical writing, wiki, wikipedia

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