21 days of wiki adoption

Like many others, I’ve been following these great short videos (2-3 min) on wiki adoption from Stewart Mader of the Wikipatterns blog.

My favorite point so far?

• Don’t have a pilot wiki with just early adopters. This was counter-intuitive to me, as you’d expect to get the highest leverage with an enthusiastic group of early adopters. Turns out – those early adopters are often disconnected from the rest of the team. People remain skeptical even if the early adopters are gushing. If, instead, you use a mixed group with some regular users and some skeptics, people will pay attention to what they’re saying!