Joshua Penix wrote:
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.
TWiki actually isn't hard to install. You can do it either as a tarball
into a single directory, or as a package for your system. I've dealt
with it on Ububtu as a package and it was trivial. The only tricky part
is the backup because of the way the package splits the directories. I
recommend the tarball/single directory method because it makes backups
much easier.
Gus
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