I can't say who, but one of the largest last-mile ISPs on the entire west
coast (WA/OR/CA) uses mediawiki for nearly 100% of their internal
documentation. Organized per POP.



On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 9:44 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah, I think mediawiki is the way to go.  I started down that path once
> but not being well versed in Linux I stopped.  We can get that
> implemented.
> I just hate losing corporate/institutional memory every time a tech
> decides to go to college or go to work for Google/Ebay/Adobe... (we ain’t
> called Silicon Slopes for nuthing)
>
> *From:* Eric Kuhnke
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 20, 2018 10:41 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT tech wiki
>
> My objection is not about the cost, which is nominal, but about the
> principle of going down the path of what can become a business-critical
> function offloaded to a third party, where you don't have full access to
> your own database/back-end.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 9:35 AM, Josh Baird <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Confluence is only $10 for 10 users.  That’s my recommendation.
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2018, at 12:26 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Full mediawiki, the same software that runs the backend of wikipedia. If
>> you are not a competent Linux sysadmin, you are going to want to get one to
>> set it up and maintain it. It's vastly more powerful and extensible than a
>> medium sized ISP could ever need. I predict we will see people here
>> recommend Confluence and other commercial solutions, but in my opinion all
>> proper wiki software for serious use should be composed of 100% BSD, GPL
>> and Apache licensed software.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 9:16 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I want it to be in wiki format.  An ongoing knowledge base.  We had one
>>> at a former company and it was great.  But I was not the one that installed
>>> it so I don’t know what is involved in that.
>>>
>>> *From:* Steve Jones
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, January 20, 2018 10:14 AM
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT tech wiki
>>>
>>> if its not public, i use OneNote
>>> its not in the wiki format but it logs changes, logs who made changes
>>> and allows multiuser access
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 11:06 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is the most pain free way to create a wiki?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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