ITIL V3 on Wikipedia
"Put in almost any name into Google - Bill Clinton, Jeremy Thorpe, Tony Blair - and it is likely that the Wikipedia entry will be the thing that comes up first." Says Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times, in his latest blog.
So, what's the first entry that turns up when you type in ITIL V3 on Google?
So what do you see?
Ignore the sponsored links and chances are the first thing that turns up is indeed the Wikipedia entry. Interestingly, the Best Management Practices website that hosts the online ITIL V3 content turns up at a respectable number three.
But come back to the Wikipedia entry for ITIL V3 - and click on.
What do you think about the content available? Sadly, not too much in there at the moment. Yes, I know - ITIL V3 is just out, there are five books and not many (anyone?!) who have got around to reading them all, let alone start putting their take on Wikipedia. But still. Should we take this as an indication of how quickly V3 will get adopted? Hmmm ... we'll see. Ken Turbitt says it will take at least 18 months for V3 to start gaining adoption. Hopefully, it won't take that long for enthusiastic ITSM practitioners - like you and I - to update the ITIL V3 Wikipedia entry!
Of course, one could still argue that today's ITSM Practitioners are too busy implementing ITIL V3 to be updating content about V3 on Wikipedia. Well, anyways that's what I would like (you) to believe 
