Associated Press: 'Wikis' Offer Knowledge-Sharing Online.

There are Wiki cookbooks, a compendium of quotations and a repository on guitar players. College professors use Wikis to spur discussion. Software developers create online manuals. Small teams within businesses track projects, exchange ideas and list good places for lunch. ...

Though for now largely the domain of techies, Wikis are poised to become what blogs have turned into — still in the Internet avant garde yet widespread enough to be influential. ...

Wikis are also described as online whiteboards, shared notebooks or group memory. They are forums for sharing knowledge and control — and fostering trust in the process. ...

Where Wikis can truly take off are in corporate and organizational settings. ...

On an internal Wiki at Net Integration Technologies Inc., workers keep their calendars and managers can rearrange priorities (employees could also change their bosses' appointments, though were they to do so they might not remain employees for long).

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