9 March 2009
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OD moves operations over to wiki organisation
Over the weekend we migrated all our discussions, tasks and current work over from various talk pages and email in-boxes into our new wiki-based organisational system. This is currently in our private intranet wiki, but after we've worked with it and improved it over the next week or two, we'll create a wiki article package from it which can be imported into other wikis to serve as an example or template organisation.
We're working with a number of other organisations who are very interested in using a wiki-based organisational system, and this migration of our operations will give us an excellent repository of existing structure to work with in implementing in-wiki systems for them.
The initial record types we have operational are Person, Role, Project, Organisation, Activity and Issue. When used in conjunction with the CategoryWatch extension these give us a basic workflow and time management system through which we can collaborate on projects together and evolve them through feedback from the clients and users.
We're in the process of standardising our Role's portals so that they contain useful queries to aid in productivity such as the ability to quickly access current work they've been involved in or any issues assigned to them.
Other records which have been created are Lead, Account, Document, Procedure, Computer, Network, Order, Product, Transaction and Invoice. These will be made operational over the next few weeks and will mean that we can move our remaining procedures that involve the spreadsheet into the wiki. In preparation for this the ods2wiki.pl script has been developed which allows us to import our Open Office spreadsheet information into wiki records.
