To be honest...when I look at most Wikis, I don't get the excitement. The interface is generally poor, the administration seems very limited and the support for attachments and inline resources seems lacking.
But since everybody keeps talking about them (and I am DESPERATE for something better than Excel/Word for tracking use cases, requirements, test plans, etc) I spent the better part of the day looking at a few wikis.
Confluence (from Atlassian, authors of Jira) is a new J2EE-based wiki that seems oriented toward development and promises integration with Jira, the bug-tracking system. Installation of their standalone version was a snap. Administration seems fairly full-featured. Good support for attachments. Easy 'refactoring' as the site evolves seems like an absolute necessity for any non-trivial usage. It's a bit pricey for us, since the minimum license is for 25 users and we don't need nearly that many...but on a per-user basis, the price would be reasonable.
SnipSnap is an open-source J2EE based system. It was easy to get their standalone version running. The administration and presentation are not nearly as nice as Confluence (I could not figure out how to delete a document), but the price is right.
We also looked at TikiWiki...but is has so much feature overload that we couldn't find the basic Wiki part and eventually gave up.
At this point, Confluence looks like a good choice given its developer orientation. Are there others we should be considering? Obviously Java-based is good...but not a requirement.
C
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