OK, so you see that a wiki has incredible potential for legal services. You have a general sense of what it is. Now what? To start down the path of using a wiki, you'll need to get software that allows you to create it. You'll also need to set it up for your users (a largely non-technical task), and consider how to facilitate and champion a mindset change. People like you have done this in a day or less.

The Software: You have options. But some people don't want options; they want easy. For you, we recommend this simple thing: pick someone to host your wiki and subscribe. (See Hosted Options or google "wiki hosting".) In this option, you subscribe to use a wiki engine on someone else's server (for free or at a cost, depending). You get to focus on the content and using the wiki, not the technology that creates it. This can take minutes to get activated, once you decide who you want to use as your wiki engine.

The following chapters serve to help drive the discussion on the why, what, and how wikis operate and support an organization. This is important before going head first into the logistics of having a wiki.