Wiki is a great way of collaborating with other people when doing research or a project with other groups. It allows all the content to tie together, as compared to doing work without wiki, where documents are in several pieces and someone has to compile them altogether.
As an individual contributor, I have also gained the experience of editing in a wiki software. This is different than Microsoft Word as there are also contributions by other people and that they are also able to make changes on your contributions. Although it might be frustrating if someone overrides your changes, if everyone is cooperative, the project would be easier to finish.
One of the most challenging experience when doing the wiki is the formatting. For some reasons, the formatting for the articles in the wiki would sometimes screw up. Therefore, if not careful, the lines might stick together and the fonts sizes will be wrong. Thus, we have to ensure that the wiki is properly maintained.
For the next batch of wiki groups, I am sure that it will definitely be an interesting way for you to work on Wikis. You can collaborate together in a common space and ensure that everyone does their part (through history). Therefore, my advice to you is that you should fully maximize the advantages of wiki. You can split your tasks and each member can do their own work on their own spot. The ability to edit anything means that you can also help to improve the work contributed by other member, so that your article will be better in terms of quality.
It really depends on my diploma when using Wiki for research in my course. If it is a group work, then Wiki is definitely the best way to compile the contribution together into one page. However, if it is an individual work, then I feel that it is pointless, as you are the only contributor to the page, and other people might not be bothered to help you improve your article, and just focus on their one.
In fact, I think that the Wiki can be utilized for things other than research. We can coordinate our activities using wiki as well, by writing a page to talk about which tasks are given to which member. We can also write articles that are beyond our research topics, and things that the public might be interested to read in.
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