Hey, all,

Some of my colleagues are objecting to my desire to minimize uploading of Word 
documents to our new intranet wiki. My main objection to it is that we ought to 
be entering information into wiki pages so that we can take full advantage of 
document versioning, talk pages, watching, etc.-y'know, the stuff that makes it 
a wiki...

I've been called "silly" and "arbitrary" regarding this. :) I'm not outright 
forbidding posting Word documents; I'm just trying to get people to use the 
wiki the way it's mean to be used. Am I being unreasonable? I even stated that 
it's acceptable to load the final version of a 20-page report, or a form that's 
meant to be printed out and filled out by hand-i.e., things in a final state 
that do not need further editing.

Has anyone else encountered this resistance? I was most surprised that it came 
from someone who uses/edits Wikipedia, which, as far as I can tell, does not 
support uploading of Word docs.

Nina
Nina McHale, MA/MSLS
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