Adding a Wiki to your site?

Have you ever considered adding a wiki to your site in order to provide a greater resource in your niche (if your subject is resource-related)?

I've thought about doing it but I don't think my community would use it at all, as they most like don't know what a wiki is, let alone how to contribute to one.

 

I have seriously looked into this, but (at least at the time) I found the available scripts incredibly slow, and my users would have had a tough time figuring them out. I'd still like to do this someday, though I think I'd designate a committee of users to manage submissions.

 

Kind of... but I didn't go through it.

 

I have really only seen very few forums that also have a wiki on their site. I think it would make a great addition if done properly.

 

I have seriously thought about it, but more for the SEO feature. I do not know how much my members would use it.

But on the other hand, with proper keyword placement, how much traffic could it bring in?

So lets say you buy a commercial solution, nobody uses it, but google starts sending your site an extra 100 hits a day, or even 100 hits a week. Depending on how much of that traffic creates an account, over the course of a year it might be worth the trouble and money.

 

I have been thinking about having an custom wiki made for my upcoming entertainment community if that site goes well. But that is probobly far in the future when I have afford with that.

 

I added a wiki to Legion and its worked out well. Since we such a niche and official membership is granted through an application process (like a clan), we can use it for private wiki for articles, guides, and member's content. In some ways, I like the wiki in that most members can access it and add onto articles, but at the same times its another area of the site that has to be moderated and policed to ensure that articles aren't mass-deleted or edited or vandolized, even within a closed membership pool.

For many other niches, I find that there are already large, well-established wikis so I don't see any reason to addon to my other forums. Quite a bit of work for a small gain imo.

 

I have read this before. In fact at least one wiki has been abandoned because of this and are being made into a static site.

Here is an admin addict wiki, a link from domain tools

Code:

http://www.aboutus.org/Adminaddict.net

As far as I can tell a wiki or static page is not really read by the forum members, it is more fun to start up a thread. It is useful as a reference tool to answer questions in those threads however (copy / paste).

 

Never been found of Wikis myself. Don't know if its the inherent disorganization, the introduction of a new formatting markup or what. I just don't like them. Only one I visit is Wikipedia and then only through a search engine result. Just a pain to navigate or find anything worthwhile otherwise.

 

Ain't that the truth. I literally have to re-learn wiki markup code anytime I'm editing or creating an article. After I'm done with my edits, I mentally press the delete button and forget all the code. I've never found a built-in wiki search feature to be useful, I always get to wiki pages through Google. I'll go out of my way to site search the wiki on Google since I know the wiki search won't turn anything up.

 

I think it would be difficult to make sure it gets used. But if it did, it would undoubtably become extremely useful.