It occurred to me during a conversation that teams want to be able to keep track of more than just a few links and the next steps that people accepted as a result of a conversation.

Sure, we want human conversation to be front and center to Coffee Time. But also… we don’t want people to have to string together tons of tools to keep their community vibrant.

To that end, I’m going to start building wiki functionality into Coffee Time. Much like Wikipedia, this will be a team’s knowledge base. However, unlike Wikipedia, there will likely be a lot less functionality.

It will likely be that the wiki functions more like the original wiki that used to live at wiki.c2.com, but using basic Markdown for formatting. Any member of a team will be able to edit any wiki page on that team. And any member of the public will be able to view them, assuming the team is publicly accessible.

We will have basic collision detection (if I start editing a document and someone else saves a change, the server will stop me from saving overtop that change), and also the ability to view previous versions of a page. But that’s probably all I will build at first.

After that, who knows where my inspiration will take me?