A week ago Martin Cleaver asked me if we could get together and take a look at the Wikis in the new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Now everything I had seen in Microsoft demos around their new wikis did not impress me. It was always shown to me as a WYSIWIG webpart in a webpart page, which made me think that MSFT didn’t understand the nature of a wiki.
So Martin and I created a new Wiki site in SharePoint and started to try out some of the features and I’m glad to report that is actually fairly promising.
WebParts, WYSIWYG and WikiCode
Edit View
Wiki Pages Library
View All Site Content
It is great, although expected, that Wiki Sites can also contain other types of Lists and Libraries (Documents, Picture, and Form)
Page History
Moving/Copying Pages
So I think that SharePoint wikis look pretty promising. Hopefully they will make some more improvements and bug fixes before the release but I’m sure that the SharePoint community will quicky extend the functionality or improve the product just as they have with the SharePoint Forums Web Part.
