On Jan 26, 2008, at 8:31 AM, Todd Walton wrote:
Wow, that is slick. Confluence, feature-wise anyway, is exactly what I would like to have. I have to imagine that one could build Mediawiki to do all of that, but it wouldn't be near as smooth.
You're seeing a significant difference between the capabilities of Confluence and Mediawiki because Confluence is what's considered a "structured wiki." Wikipedia's description is useful:
"A structured wiki combines the benefits of the seemingly contradicting worlds of plain wikis and database systems. This gives you a collaborative database environment where knowledge can be shared freely, and where structure can be added as needed. In a structured wiki, users can create wiki applications that are very specific to their needs, such as call center status boards, to-do lists,inventory systems, employee handbooks, bug trackers, blog applications and more."
Due to its maturity and flexibility, Confluence is generally considered one of the better options for corporate use. However, Open Source also has something to offer in the same class - TWiki (http://twiki.org/ ). It's built in Perl and a little difficult to install, but once going it's pretty impressive. There are dozens of plugins, and right out of the box it's easy to configure pages for form based entry of tabular data. It can also tie to SQL tables, LDAP, etc.
Even one of KPLUG's own, Mike Marion, is author of a TWiki plugin: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/EasyTimelinePlugin I'd definitely recommend giving it a look. -- Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
