IMPLEMENTATION OF MEDIAWIKI AS A TOOL FOR KNOWLEDGE SHARING
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2014-06-11
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Conference On Professional Development In Education (PDE2014), Widyatama University Indonesia, Open University Indonesia and Open University Malaysia
Abstract
Knowledge management is an important issue that is often brought up in the modern organization.
Implementation of knowledge management is not only about selection of the right application, but rather to
spread a culture of sharing knowledge among members of the organization itself. One of the important aspects
on implementations Knowledge management is the process of knowledge capture and knowledge sharing. This
process must be supported by adequate application and easily learned by all parties.
Wikimedia, since the very beginning, has been regarded as one of the practical applications that can support
collaborative writing and interaction among users. Wikimedia also can be considered as one of the practical
applications for the process of capturing knowledge and knowledge sharing. Ease of installation and
customization process made Wikimedia as one popular application adopted by the organization.
University, as a source of knowledge, should facilitate the sharing of information and knowledge in the local
community or to the general public. However, in many universities, especially in Indonesia, does not yet provide
adequate medium for sharing knowledge. It is considered as an opportunity to develop a prototype of media
dissemination of information in the form of an online encyclopedia for Widyatama University. Requirement
identification for media collaboration is done with the PIECES approach, and the result is realized by build the
prototype of Widyapedia based on Wiki.
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Knowledge capture, knowledge sharing, WikiMedia, online encyclopedia