Program

Abstract: General-purpose Wiki systems are successfully used in last years for documenting and knowledge management in software companies. Though initially these systems were designed to aggregate knowledge in open communities, now Wiki systems often replace "stereotype" document management systems and software documenting technologies.

We will discuss some reasons for this situation and point out some problems that limit application scope of Wikis. Wiki is not a "silver bullet" but we can outline application domains where Wiki may be effectively used.

Then, we will consider how to choose Wiki system in order to build an internal corporate knowledge base, keep and maintain documentation and communicate with customers. MediaWiki is an optimal choice for this purpose in our opinion, since it has a vast community of users and developers and a wealth of experience. Open architecture makes it possible to extend easily any functionality of MediaWiki and to "downsize" possible inconviniencies.

Finally, we will offer solutions for the most acute problems of "corporate wikiing".

Bio: Stas Fomin is a deputy of Director of Information Technology department in Custom InformSystems company. He joined this company in 1999 accomplishing the dozens of successful projects on the development and implementation of information systems. Stas is exploring the promising systems, frameworks, and standards, implementing effective tools and methodology of software development in his company.

Also Stas Fomin teaches algorithms and complexity theory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and at the Institute for System Programming (ISP RAS). Stas is a co-author of the book «Efficient algorithms and computational complexity», the author of big amount of scientific and engineering articles.

Prior joining Custom InformSystems Stas Fomin works as a developer of information systems for Server company. Stas Fomin graduated the Applied Mathematics faculty at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) with honors in 1999.