Wiki adoption in the workplace
gommo July 13th, 2007
This week I attended a seminar at Atlassian’s Sydney office. The seminar was called ‘How do you grow wiki adoption‘ and was presented by Stewart Mader, Wiki evangelist for Atlassian. It was a great opportunity to get an idea from established users of Wiki’s on how to help your workplace make more use of a Wiki. At my work at Maptek, we have been using a Wiki on and off for the past few years (for Minesuite Product Development) but its still a long way from becoming standard.
Stewart runs a site called wikipatterns that lists different patterns and anti-patterns to promote wiki use in your organisation. 
A big thanks also to the guys at Atlassian who hosted the seminar. I was lucky enough to be given a tour of the development areas by two of the confluence developers. Just talking to these guys you get a feel for the knowledge and skill Atlassian possess for software development. On a slightly different note, the picture below is taken by me having a beer at a pub before the seminar. That’s Atlassian’s door right there. With a pub that close, how do they ever get any work done?
