A wiki is just a tool like any other, so retention is going to based on
content and how the wiki is used. The nice thing about wikis is they can
preserve the editorial process and make prior versions available - of
course that can be a potential liability as well. Much like web pages,
you'll have to assess when the information needs to be captured and
preserved as a record, or if it ever becomes a record (i.e. maybe it's used
to generate some final, blessed document that is the "official" record). So
really the question is how is it being used, are business decisions being
made based on this content, and what laws, regulations, or business
requirements will be impacted by those decisions.

                           Christian Meinke, CRM
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Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 07/01/2008
11:23:49 AM:

> Internal wiki's for organizations are getting very popular.  The good
> news is that you can share a lot of information very quickly.  The bad
> news is that, like the internet, not everything is accurate or
> appropriate for publication and anything can be changed on the fly.
>
> Anybody have any experience doing retention scheduling for wiki's?  Much
> like blogs, it is impossible to classify any of it as a record until
> after you know what the content is...so a one size fits all policy would
> be impossible to defend.  I was thinking that one strategy might be to
> ask the initial creator of the web page to classify the posting in
> advance by selecting a Record Category that could have some business
> rules attached.
>
> Can anybody think of a different approach?
>
>
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