Manual:Deciding whether to use a wiki as your website type/nl

Als u overweegt een website te maken dan is de eerste beslissing of u daarvoor een wiki kunt gebruiken, dat gaat natuurlijk nog voor de keuze van de te gebruiken wiki software. Dat is eigenlijk een keuze of u staat voor het gebruik van een wiki, een keuze dat slechte beslissingen eenvoudig verholpen kunnen worden en dat het doen van een slechte beslissing moeilijker is.

A wiki is useful any time you want to have decentralized collaboration in a central place. This is in contrast to sites such as nytimes.com or britannica.com, which are large central repositories of content that are centrally controlled by editors and webmasters who report to their respective corporate entities; or the blogosphere, which consists of decentralized content production that results in the work being posted to many different sites, each of which is under the authority of, and is the responsibility of, the individual blogger.

In some cases, it may be expedient to have a wiki be one component of one's website, and to have the rest be non-wiki. Even the Wikimedia Foundation uses a non-wiki front page for its portal to the wikis listed at wikimedia.org. Other sites, have the wiki as one tab along a ribbon that includes blogs, online stores, etc. and allow the search bar to include results from the wiki in the search results for the whole site.

Ways in which wikis are similar to other sites

 *  The buck must stop somewhere:  Someone will have to be the ultimate authority on what content is to be allowed to remain on the site.
 *  The site is only as good as the contributors make it:  If there isn't enough interest in adding high-quality content, then the site won't have it.
 *  The site can be run like a regular blog:  It is possible to use either blogging software or wiki software as a content management system by adjusting the settings to limit open collaboration. ( See, e.g., . )