New Lotus product wikis on developerWorks

June 16 2008

The IBM developerWorks Lotus team has launched phase II of their online wiki efforts in the developerWorks Lotus forums and community section.  Eight Lotus-related wikis are now up and running:

IBM Composite Applications wiki
Find and share technical articles, samples, and best practices. These resources are intended to help users get started creating composite applications using Lotus Domino Designer, Lotus Expeditor, Eclipse, or WebSphere Portal. Requires a developerWorks/IBM ID to participate.
  • Lotus Connections Deployment wiki
    Find Lotus Connections deployment scenarios from IBM and share your deployment experiences with a community of other users. Requires a developerWorks/IBM ID to participate.
  • Lotus Notes/Domino wiki
    Find Lotus Notes and Domino configuration, application development, best practices, and more on the Lotus Domino wiki. Contribute to the wiki by sharing your experiences with the community. No registration required.
  • Lotus Domino Web Application Development wiki
    Find and share best practices for developing Web applications for Lotus Domino and Notes, including understanding Domino design elements, building Web applications, extending rich client applications, server configuration, and developer tools and resources.
  • Lotus Quickr wiki
    Share your deployment configurations and topologies in the Lotus Quickr Best Practices wiki. Requires a developerWorks/IBM ID to participate.
  • Lotus Sametime wiki
    Find information and comment on Lotus Sametime deployments, scenarios, cool features, hints, and tips. Requires a developerWorks/IBM ID to participate.
  • WebSphere Portlet Factory wiki
    Find and contribute information about the best ways to use WebSphere Portlet Factory, including common development and application deployment scenarios, samples, techniques, and troubleshooting information.
  • Lotus Web Content Management wiki
    Find and share best practices for using Lotus Web Content Management, including a sample deployment scenario, authoring information, and tips and tricks for deployment, performance, and content migration.
There is also an incentive/reward piece of the equation, where US residents (yes, I know) can win a $25 gift card for participation.
All of the wikis are Domino-based, so IBM authors can directly access the databases via Notes client (and will be identified as IBMers).  The Lotus Info 2.0 team is looking forward to your feedback...I can assure you they are reading :-)

Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Lotus  Add/View Comments [17]

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  1. 1  Steve McDonald http://www.optimussolutions.com | 6/16/2008 7:32:03 PM

    It's great to see IBM technology in use... When other vendor's Wiki products were employed it really confused customers. Thanks! Looks great!

  1. 2  Wolfgang Haderlein  | 6/17/2008 12:30:14 AM

    Will the wiki-template be available in a release of notes/domino or as download from IBM? I think this is more than necessary to complete the web 2.0 standard solutions for the domino-platform (after the blog another important application which must be supported by IBM asap out of the box).

  1. 3  Martin Gasteiger  | 6/17/2008 1:37:40 AM

    Looks really great. Im also very interested in the template which is used to create the wiki databases. Is there any chance to get this ?

  1. 4  Ian Scott  | 6/17/2008 6:53:22 AM

    Delighted to see they're mostly NSF's. To echo @3, when can we get the template?

  1. 5  Lars Olufsen http://www.olufsphere.com | 6/17/2008 7:01:17 AM

    That's REALLY awesome. They look GREAT.

  1. 6  Chuck Hauble  | 6/17/2008 7:18:44 AM

    Looks really great.. I am also very interested in the template, we are making Wiki product decisions right now in our organization

  1. 7  Olivier FRANCHET http://www.dominux.net | 6/17/2008 7:56:07 AM

    Great! Wiki resources for all Lotus products but ... in english only ?

  1. 8  Axel  | 6/17/2008 8:17:35 AM

    I guess for a wiki the use of the English makes sense, as more possible contributors think to be able to express themselves in that language than in french, german, urdu, danish, etc.

  1. 9  Bill Brown  | 6/17/2008 8:24:53 AM

    @7 If not english, then what language? Esperanto, which no one speaks as their native tongue?

    I didn't see any specific statement that articles had to be in english, but I would imagine authors are going to select either whatever language they are most comfortable with or feel will give them the widest audience.

    @Ed, this raises an interesting question. What language is used for internal IBM meetings with people from different countries?

  1. 10  enzo stanzion http://www.xerum.it | 6/17/2008 9:20:28 AM

    Hi Ed,

    thanks a lot about you exaustive post. This is another input from IBM to the world of WEB 2.0.

    The new look of ou products is very beautiful, and if those templeates will be part of domino server, well done!

    My best complimento to IBMers

  1. 11  Mike McP http://www.openntf/mPortal | 6/17/2008 12:02:00 PM

    I'll echo everyone else: Where can I get the template? As my bosses are enamored with the awful Sharepoint Wiki, it's probably too late, but still interested.

  1. 12  Mike McP http://www.openntf/mPortal | 6/17/2008 12:03:48 PM

    Oh, and if you really want to impress me, write a wizard/import routine to suck dry a Sharepoint Wiki and put it in a Domino database based on this template.

  1. 13  Johannes Madsen  | 6/18/2008 2:56:50 AM

    It looks very nice, but I think the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki will becom very big and should probably be split up i 3: One for end users, one for administrators and one for developers. I need a Domino Designer Wiki!

  1. 14  Kerr  | 6/18/2008 4:37:04 AM

    @13, of course we have the Lotus Domino Web Application Development wiki, so perhaps a Lotus Notes Rich Client Application Development wiki would be a nice complement, rather than a Domino Designer product specific wiki.

  1. 15  Declan Lynch http://www.qtzar.com | 6/18/2008 3:25:31 PM

    Great wiki's.

    Nice to see that they are NSF's and also interesting to see that it is a customized version of the IBM Blog Template that is running them. I do agree that the template with it's customizations should be released... Maybe we'll see it in 8.5

  1. 16  Roberto Boccadoro  | 6/20/2008 9:20:39 AM

    @9 - English

  1. 17  Joyce Davis http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ltieteamblog.nsf | 2/19/2009 9:56:06 AM

    For those of you still interested, a version of a new XPages wiki template for Domino is now available on OpenNTF.org. The new template uses the XPages technology added to Lotus Domino Server version 8.5 and later.

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    The Lotus Information Development team continues to gather feedback on our live product wikis and evaluate features for future iterations of the template. If you have specific feedback on the product wikis, we encourage you to use the feedback link on the left navigator on the wiki. Please note that the live product wikis are not yet using the new XPages wiki template, but we are currently analyzing the upgrade path to move to it.