Hi.
I've used twiki, mediawiki and confluence. I've used twiki a lot more
than either of the others.
Confluence _looks_ great and has lots of nice wiki->blog, tagging and
notification features available right out of the box. It has some nice
formatting and reporting macros for doing simple stuff, and it looks like
the community for extensions and plugins is active. It scales well for an
extended environment where you want to use one server to set up a whole
bunch of wikis for different groups.
Although twiki is a very good general purpose wiki tool, it excels in one
area, which is the single biggest reason we use it over other packages.
It allows you to add structure to wiki topics. Basically, in addition to
the one big text edit box where you can edit the text contents of the
topic, you can have a large variety of other form elements. Sets of data
elements, their size, presentation and simple rules about what they can
contain can be defined in one topic, then associated with a number of
other topics. Each topic the form is associated with will then have those
fields of meta data in both browsing and editing view. There are plugins
that give you decent (but not great) querying tools to build reports
around data captured this way.
We use it to give a really great mid-point between the free for all of
wiki and the structure of a DB-drvien web app. The way it works in twiki
makes it super easy to implement new forms. It's quite flexible in some
ways and not so flexible in others. For us it was a sweet spot between
structure and ease.
I haven't found other wikis that have a comparable mechanism. Many have
template that you can use as a starting point for a topic but then they
lose their "template"-ness after the first edit. Confluence has the start
of what seems to be an equivalent but you need administrative access to
install it, it's a beta plugin, and looks crippled in important ways.
---->Nathan
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:44:18 -0800, Robert Wohleb <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I introduced MediaWiki as an intranet website for a startup I'm involved
in. People picked up the editing of the wiki really quickly and it's
been pretty successful for discussions. MediaWiki supports image/media
file uploads and Tex mathematics formatting which has allowed us to
easily document our technology, production, and marketing strategies.
For those that don't know, MediaWiki is the same wiki software that runs
Wikipedia.
~Rob
John Hauser wrote:
interesting thread on wikis over at svlug specifically for in-house
documentation for engineers to use.
good discussion of the varous choices out there and their strengths.
i thought some humlug members may be interested in this topic...
http://gw.jhauser.dyndns.org:8080/archives/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=svlug&i=43E2B517.7090702%40biovalid.com
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N. C. Young Design
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