Re: Knowledge Base implementation/MOD/plugin?
Hi Phil,
I'll answer you as an end user from the organizational learning field who is working in a project with similar goals to those you declare in your post.
I believe that Genuine knowledgehas two irreducible aspects:
- it is seldom structured in the form of fixed fields or dependable rules, and
- it is social, i.e., it is distributed as shared understanding among human groups that often have little respect for artificial organizational boundaries. Knowledge differs intrinsically from data in that it evolves along a critical path from story to culture, to organization, to technology.
Real knowledge almost never is available from a …a clean and simple infrastructure. It almost always exists as a real mess of apparently incoherent units. It's the social human activity that as a persistent play with those building blocks imposes meaning, order and clarity to the disorganized net of disconnected pages.
To Rick your post seems to be an use case for trackers.
I do agree with him and from a complementary point of view I suggest you consider the whole TW project as a real Knowledge Base.
I also invite you to examine the Wiki-based Project management approach as explained here by Marc Laporte:
- Each wiki page is a mini-project.
- Users or groups are associated to a page via a customizable role.
- Possible roles:
- Project/page leader
- Interested party
- CMS type workflow roles
- Author
- Translator
- Editor
We're structuring our departmental KB this way.
Till here my contribution,
Rogelio
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