Issue 16.01 of Wired Magazine includes an interview with Trent Reznor by contributing editor Frank Rose. The transcript of that interview offers a glimpse into Reznor’s use of a wiki to write the back story of the whole concept for Year Zero, the studio album and accompanying alternate reality game (ARG) released in 2007:

Reznor: …I gave them my Wiki that I’d written, Rob [Sheridan, creative partner and art director for NIN] and I had written — that had all the whole background of Year Zero. And it was —

Rose: You had already sort of put that online or —

Here, he explains that the wiki wasn’t a public site, but an internal tool the two used to assemble and explore ideas: [Read more]