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Answering Tough Questions About Wikis — Interview with Anne Gentle

October 16th, 2007 | Posted in Tech Writer Voices |

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Duration: 29 min.
Anne Gentle

In this podcast, Anne Gentle, author of The Quick Web for Technical Documentation, tackles some of the toughest questions about wikis, such as, How do you reuse and possibly single source your wiki content? If only 1 percent of your users contribute, is the wiki even worth it? How do you deal with the lack of a robust style editor in a wiki? What should you do when you do not like a user contribution?

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5 Responses to “Answering Tough Questions About Wikis — Interview with Anne Gentle”

  1. [...] just published an interview with Anne Gentle about wikis on Tech Writer Voices. The podcast is titled “Answering Tough Questions About Wikis.” [...]

  2. Tom, you had a great set of ten questions. I don’t know if we got to them all but I thoroughly enjoyed talking with you. Your questions made me do my homework ahead of time and I appreciate that.

    You wouldn’t know that the connection completely dropped in the middle of our phone conversation, he’s just that good at editing interviews to make them into really good podcasts. There’s an art to the audio interview and Tom makes it sound easy but he’s actually very skilled and talented, don’t let him tell you otherwise. :)
    Thanks Tom for the opportunity. Dian, I’d love to hear feedback on the podcast since your email to Tom inspired some of the questions.

  3. Thanks for the comment. Actually, the hard part was patching up the places where the connection went silent every once in a while. Did you notice that in several places I took out entire sentences? I had to listen to the podcast in its entirety to be sure I wasn’t botching it. Then for some reason my voice is totally distorted in places. I don’t know whether to attribute this to the Levelator or to Skype. Honestly, usually the connection is better and there’s not much editing at all.

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  5. [...] has the best responses for them. One interview where I did ask the hard questions was with Anne Gentle on wikis. To my surprise, she didn’t choke or stumble on the [...]

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