Creating Your Team's Wiki Homepage

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When running a team, there is always a temptation to go resource crazy and set up a homepage, wiki, forums, bzr server, mailing lists, IRC server, IM service, forwarding service etc. Many of these resources are simply not needed, and when creating a new team you should always try and spend as much time in getting people interesting in your team, instead of spending it setting up new resources.

As such, there is often a tendency to create a CMS driven website instead of just setting up a bunch of wiki pages. The wiki has many benefits over a CMS site:

• wiki.ubuntu.com is already there to use
• lots of people know how to use a wiki
• anyone can register and update it - there is no bottleneck
• its really easy to get information a wiki, quickly and easy

The primary purpose of the website when you start a team is to share information, store notes and tips about how to run the team, and provide information for new members. The wiki is ideal for this.

Making an easy to use and navigate wiki site

When using the wiki though, it is sometimes easy to create a bunch of disorganised pages that are vaguely linked together.