Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-31 Thread David Miller
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Brendan Kidwell bren...@glump.net wrote: Joining in late in the discussion, but since no one else mentioned it, allow me to endorse DokuWiki http://www.dokuwiki.org/ . I'm not sure if MediaWiki has yet managed to create a clear plugin protocol and API -- last

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-31 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:44 AM, David Miller davi...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely take your time and vet out a few different wiki solutions before choosing one. Migrating a wiki from one platform to another is a big pita. While MediaWiki is probably the most well known in my opinion it

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-31 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:44 AM, David Miller wrote: DokuWiki is definitely worth a look if you're taking the time to vet out a few candidate solutions. So I'd like to speak against this choice. My experience is one or two years out of date, but it is at the center of of my failed projects for

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Some additional information about MediaWiki... On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, David Kramer da...@thekramers.net wrote: On 08/28/2011 12:31 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Kyle Leslie wrote: Any suggestions on a set up. I have seen some things about TikiWiki and MediaWiki. My vote is for Twiki

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-28 Thread Tom Metro
Kyle Leslie wrote: Any suggestions on a set up. I have seen some things about TikiWiki and MediaWiki. My vote is for Twiki (http://twiki.org/). MediaWiki obviously has the advantage that almost everyone is familiar with it due to Wikipedia, but I find that the markup syntax is inconsistent

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-28 Thread David Kramer
On 08/28/2011 12:31 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Kyle Leslie wrote: Any suggestions on a set up. I have seen some things about TikiWiki and MediaWiki. My vote is for Twiki (http://twiki.org/). I used to have a TWiki instance on my server for a long time, but I ditched it because there were an

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm fairly knowledgeable at MediaWiki, so if you have some questions feel free to ask. When I setup the wiki for our group at Harvard, I even tweaked it so that you could use the wiki as a back-end to publish pages to a public website. You can also set it up to create PDF books - which is great

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/25/2011 01:57 PM, Kyle Leslie wrote: Hi everyone, my office IT group has documents spread out between us, some the same, some different. I was hoping to set up a small wiki type server so that our group could collaborate and share documents with each other. Any suggestions on a set up. I

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread Kyle Leslie
Are there any hardware things I need to look out for or is it relatively forgiving as far as needs? Memory, HDD space and so forth? On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I'm fairly knowledgeable at MediaWiki, so if you have some questions feel

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 03:45:20PM -0400, Kyle Leslie wrote: Are there any hardware things I need to look out for or is it relatively forgiving as far as needs? Memory, HDD space and so forth? Wikis tend to be quite undemanding until you discover that there are a hundred or a hundred

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread Richard Pieri
On Aug 26, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Wikis tend to be quite undemanding until you discover that there are a hundred or a hundred thousand times as many people using it as you had initially thought. Pretty much. A Wiki is a SQL database, a web server, and some PHP code to glue

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:57:24PM -0400, Kyle Leslie wrote: Hi everyone, my office IT group has documents spread out between us, some the same, some different. I was hoping to set up a small wiki type server so that our group could collaborate and share documents with each other. Any

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-25 Thread john kirby
It's a great idea. We've been using an internal wiki for years now. Agreed. I'm partial to MediaWiki although I don't quite remember why that stood out when I was evaluating wikis. Ours started as a way to document development information but we're rolling out access to non-technical

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-25 Thread Kent Borg
Kyle Leslie wrote: Any suggestions on a set up. I have seen some things about TikiWiki and MediaWiki. Mediawiki (the one that came out of Wikipedia) is in some sense the standard. It used to be a pain to setup but at least on Ubuntu it is now pretty easy to do. I would recommend it.

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-25 Thread Gordon Marx
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Kent Borg kentb...@borg.org wrote: Kyle Leslie wrote: Any suggestions on a set up.  I have seen some things about TikiWiki and MediaWiki. Mediawiki (the one that came out of Wikipedia) is in some sense the standard.  It used to be a pain to setup but at

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-25 Thread Kent Borg
Dan Ritter wrote: About once a year someone will need to spend a fair amount of time refiling items, cleaning up dead projects and links, and otherwise performing maintenance. Good warning. It is easy to put cool stuff in a wiki, and it is easy for that stuff to get stale and inconsistent.