For anyone interested in the general topic of wikis, a Foswiki community member suggested using the following page to compare and contrast different engines. Here, for example, are MediaWiki and Foswiki side-by-side:
http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/Foswiki+MediaWiki While LibreOffice's wiki is now set up, this may become helpful in some future circumstance. -Ben On Oct 7, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Christoph Noack wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > > it seems that we have to hurry up. Things didn't stand still (although > some people might think so), and a wiki has been prepared in the > meantime. As I said yesterday, it should be available in no time - if we > "omit" the request for proper handling of languages ;-) > > Thus, I'll forward your mail to the admins to make sure that they get > your statements, okay? > > Am Donnerstag, den 07.10.2010, 13:35 -0400 schrieb Benjamin Horst: >> Forwarding from the discuss@ list to the website@ list... >> >> I like MediaWiki and use it extensively, including as an intranet wiki >> at my current workplace. I recognize it's the default choice because >> that's what OOo has been using and because it is well and >> widely-known. > > Also by admins :-) And by the current user base of the OOoWiki. So if we > change something, then we require really good arguments to convince > them ... it is like a migration of one major commercial office suite to > an open ... aehm ... libre one ;-) > >> However, it was not designed for the use-case of an intranet or >> project management wiki. [...] >> >> Foswiki: http://foswiki.org/ >> MoinMoin: http://moinmo.in/ >> DokuWiki: http://www.dokuwiki.org/ >> MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/ >> >> Wikipedia's list of wiki engines is here: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software > [...] > > I tried to follow the CMS discussion today, and what me puzzles is, that > we require a wiki very soon and the time for people evaluating another > installation is also very limited, sigh. How to balance "get a good > wiki" and "get a wiki soon"? > > Another thing I'd like to consider is, that we have some content that > might be migrated from the OOoWiki ... I wrote many proposals and > requirement specifications I'd like to add to LibO, too. But this is my > problem at the moment :-) > >> I'd like to suggest this mailing list work on the information >> architecture for the forthcoming project site and wiki, in parallel to >> our other threads investigating CMS and wiki platforms to build upon. > > My proposal: Let's ask the others for some comments ... and maybe our > intermediate but heroic admins like Florian or Guy, or Christian will > join. > > Bye, > Christoph > > [...] > > -- > To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to [email protected] > List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted. > Benjamin Horst [email protected] 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to [email protected] List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted.
