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Answering Tough Questions About Wikis -- Interview with Anne Gentle

Oct 16, 2007 • podcasts

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Duration: 29 min.
Anne Gentle

In this podcast, Anne Gentle, author of The Quick Web for Technical Documentation, tackles some of the toughest questions about wikis, such as, How do you reuse and possibly single source your wiki content? If only 1 percent of your users contribute, is the wiki even worth it? How do you deal with the lack of a robust style editor in a wiki? What should you do when you do not like a user contribution?

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