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Jamie
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Hi all,

I had a mail from Paul Sanderson & Craig Wilson the other day about their ForensicWiki. It got me thinking, does anyone want to see a kind of knowledge base here which people can add to over time with useful information? Based on my miserable failure to encourage hardly anyone to write articles for the Papers & Articles page I know there's often a difference between what we'd like to do (i.e. share our knowledge) and what we have the time to do! Equally though, perhaps adding short snippets to a knowledge base is a lot easier than putting together a 1,000 word article.

Thoughts and comments appreciated.

Jamie

 
Posted : 17/03/2006 4:34 am
keydet89
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Jamie,

I feel your pain, dude. That's the nature of the beast, though…it brings thousands of people from across the Internet together, so they can all sit around.

The fact is, people don't want to write articles or snippets…they want to read them.

$0.02

Harlan

 
Posted : 17/03/2006 4:56 am
nickfx
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Jamie,

I'll keep an eye on how the ForensicWiki pans out and report back. Being a closed environment open primarily to LE and F3 people it will be interesting to see if it gets used much. I've a login for DD and ForensicWiki and I certainly post more to here than DD, I just find a wider more international audience to get comments from. A closed forum does restrict that quite a bit.

Nick

 
Posted : 17/03/2006 2:58 pm
keydet89
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Nick,

In all fairness, though it does say on the first page that membership is closed, it's most likely due to credibility issues. First off, you have to be vetted to make sure that the moderators know who you are…that you're not some kind of spammer, or someone just trying to get access to collect email addresses. Second, with an account, things that are posted can actually be tied back to someone. If someone's posting incorrect information, or things that don't have anything to do with the wiki, that issue can be addressed.

While in theory, a closed forum does restrict contributions, it's really not an issue…look at those forums out that there are more open, and look at the quality and credibility of the posts.

Harlan

 
Posted : 17/03/2006 10:27 pm
arashiryu
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I am neither LE nor belong to F3 and I am a member of ForensicWiki.
It does have some diverse content and I don;t find it totally dedicated to information forensics.

Having a forensicsforum wiki would be great.

 
Posted : 17/03/2006 11:37 pm
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I adminster a Wiki for my department (computer crimes) of my agency. Wikis are great knowledge management tools - however, at least in my experience here, people don't post. Right now we have one person who posts content regularly - me.

It's only been live for a few months, however, so perhaps that will change. But my point is, the biggest problem with putting a lot of time and effort into applications like these is that they often go underutilized.

That being said, I'd be very interested to see the creation of a wiki here.

 
Posted : 20/03/2006 9:55 pm
packys
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Just out of curiosity; how many wikis are out there?
I came across this one not too long ago [http//www.forensicswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page]
and had to look again to make sure that it wasn't the same one!
I have to say that between the blogs (I read Harlan's often, as well as a couple of dozen others) and the communities (this one being one of the best) and the websites like mine (http//www.e-evidence.info -shameless plug), who out there is not beginning to suffer from information overload?

C.

 
Posted : 21/03/2006 3:15 am
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I've found that it's hard to find anyone who doesn't see the benefits of a wiki for capturing hard earned knowledge, but it's harder still to get them to contribute.

The wider audience here might allow a wiki to build up quicker but if it's just repeating information found on other support forums and websites, I think that most people wouldn't bother. It all sounds a bit pessimistic but I honestly thought that the forensicwiki.com would be used a lot more than it has been.

I would love to be proved wrong on this one!

DJ

 
Posted : 21/03/2006 3:49 pm
packys
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This is just my opinion, but I think that we, as a community of forensic practitioners, have gotten past the need for more of the 'general' digital forensic groups, listservs, wikis, etc., and would benefit much more from wikis that are more targetted in their content.

Examples might be 'Registry Forensics' wiki, a 'Tool validation' wiki, or a 'Metadata' wiki.

I for one would like to have a single resource (for a given specific issue) where I could go and get solid information on that topic witout having to scour through other blogs, lists, websites to pull together what I need.

Christine

 
Posted : 21/03/2006 8:08 pm
Jamie
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Examples might be 'Registry Forensics' wiki, a 'Tool validation' wiki, or a 'Metadata' wiki.

Interesting point, any other suggestions (from Christine or others)?

Jamie

 
Posted : 22/03/2006 3:50 pm
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