Wiki: What's in it for Me?

It depends on how you identify yourself.

General Benefits

Everyone can enjoy the common aspects of using a Wiki as an information source and participating in the Wiki Community. Benefits include:

Access to a information from a broad spectrum of contributors.
Brief topics that get right to the heart of a technical issue or concept.
Longer topics that go deep into a feature, deployment scenario, solution architecture, troubleshooting challenge or technology.

The table below identifies the different "yous" in the Wiki audience and the benefits for each. Notes provide additional information.

If You Are	Potential Benefits
IT Professional	Solutions to your deployment, management, planning and architecture problems Connection with other professionals
Developer	Short, in-context code snippets kept up to date by the community Links to other developer-focused sites in the community and elsewhere
Consumer	New perspective on Microsoft consumer product features More in depth details more often
Blogger	Additional page views for you/your brand Post on the wiki, refer to article on your blog, then let the community maintain the article.
Forum User	Retire forum thread to Wiki: easier to read, easier to maintain
Fanboi / Fangrrl	Wiki Time = Quality Time! Enhance your fanboi/fangrrl reputation, contribute often!
Editor	Editing is contributing and will build your reputation Improve readability and connect with other authors, readers
Microsoft MVP	Demonstrate your commitment to the community Build reputation Drive views to your site Make new connections

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