The IT staff at Rice University put together a wiki design and deployment guide that shows, in step-by-step detail, how they introduced the Rice IT wiki:

The IT staff that worked in the initial design and deployment of the Rice IT wiki presented a paper at the Southwest region Educause 2008 conference, which is attached to this page. The paper described the experience. This page elaborates on the technical aspects of the steps we had to follow and presents some more and the things that we found particularly helpful or crucial.

The guide covers installation, space structure, permissions for internal IT spaces and public spaces, tree structures that are pre-populated in newly created spaces to serve as guides for organizing various departments’ information, navigation, search, and templates.

The group’s presentation slides, list of considerations for choosing a wiki, project background, and audio & video of their presentation are available on the Educause website.