I've also played with Confluence and I think its awesome, shame its not written in CF
Kola :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Geoff Bowers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 January 2006 22:32 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: eGovernment and Wiki's --- anyone making Wiki's with CF? > > On 1/12/06, Munson, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It sounds like you want a content management system rather than a wiki. > > The difference being you give people access to edit your content instead > > of a free-for-all system. Check out Farcry, an open source, CF based > > CMS. Personally I haven't tried it, but I did attend their demo at > > CFUnited 2005, and I was pretty impressed. > > Thanks for that :) Not our demo per se just an enthusiastic member of > the community at CFUnited. > > Current link for FarCry community site: > http://www.farcrycms.org/ > > I thought I might chime in to say I've been using a WIKI as an > experiment for building developer documentation for the FarCry > community. You can see our efforts here: > http://bugs.farcrycms.org:8080/confluence/dashboard.action > > We tried this in FarCry initially but WIKI and CMS are not really > equivalent. A wiki is a very niche sort of CMS; very interactive and > very organis. And although I'm sure we could engineer FarCry to run in > "wiki mode" I'm not sure about the return on investment given the > multitude of specialist wiki engines out there. > > I'm a late convert to the WIKI seen.. but I quite like working with > them once you get going. I think however you need the right content > project and a community of wiki users ie people who know how it works > or are prepared to learn -- this isn't the general public just yet. > Navigational concepts get a bit blurry and its important that people > who really do know what they are doing constantly keep pruning the > wiki so to speak, otherwise it gets out of hand, and/or whithers and > dies. > > We're using Confluence. Its Java and its commercial (unless you are > an open source project) but its very much more sophisticated than the > variety of other WIKIs I've tried to set up: > http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ > > If you are building wikis you wouldn't go far wrong trying to > benchmark against Confluence's feature set -- it's really a great > product. > > -- geoff > http://www.daemon.com.au/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229308 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
