Keeping information in a Wiki has many advantages:

• The entire Pilot's Information Wiki can be searched, for example for 'airspace';
• You are always presented with the latest version of a page. A paper document can show it's date of printing / when it was last updated, but there is no way of knowing if it has been altered since - especially important for the Airfield Manual]];
• You can see the history of all changes to pages;
• Wikis have built in version control
• It's easy to compare versions of a page to see what has changed, and who made the changes;
• if anyone editing a page wants to, they can easily roll back changes;
• Presentation of the Airfield Manual on a table or phone is far better than with PDFs;
• Editing pages is quick easy with the Visual Editor;
• Wikis make collaboration easy, so a group can work on the same topic.
• Wikis encourage a top-down approach to organising information - you can make a link to a page before the page itself is created. These links appear in RED.
• It's easy to reorganise information and rename pages. The Wiki software can create a redirect, which seamlessly takes you from the old page address to the new one.
• Information - text and media - can be arranged in 'namespaces' which helps keep it organised, rather than having one big pile of links. Divide and conquer!
• The software we are using DokuWiki is widely used. As aconsequence:
• There is a mass of information and help available, both official and unofficial. * It's relatively easy to build a test website to 'learn the wrinkles' - this is what Sally has done.
• ** It's also relatively easy to install the software on our Web Server.
• It's possible to limit editing to a small group of users.