Q: I was thinking that there are quite a few individuals I know who might be interested in some technical wikis.. I know
- a teacher who might be interested in a wiki as a means of communicating with his students and for the students to communicate with each other in a forum where they can pursue stuff he teaches in class.. the advantage is he can put up links for them to follow up on as well as get some feedback.. also post notes and assignments..
- a virtual systems wiki, one for servers and the other for workstations.. the reason for that is that the audiences would be different and not interested in the other.. the workstation wiki could be for PCs and the server wiki for the more serious stuff..
- crash analysis - there's a great webcast by Mark Russinovich on this subject and I downloaded a driver he wrote called "not my fault" that will BSOD a system for training purposes.. this driver isn't available from Sysinternals any more and Winternals and Sysinternals were acquired by Microsoft and he's now an employee..
- someone interested in group policy who could use a wiki
- someone who does a lot of classes, and could setup forum for attendees to exchange experiences
- all kinds of other companies I am finding out about.
A: You might just start one wiki space with a general theme to encompass the many areas below. After you get it built up with a decent number of pages, and several of them are on a particular topic, then it's easy to create a new wiki space for that topic, and move that subset of pages to the new space. The system will keep all the links properly renamed when you move things around or change titles on pages.
Then after you've moved the pages on that topic out to their own space, then you could contact one of these individuals to show them the wiki space you made on the topic they are interested in.
Of course you want to use a wiki space to keep track of these new companies and technologies you are learning about. A wiki is much more flexible than trying to keep track of them using bookmarks.