Kyle Leslie wrote: > Any suggestions on a set up. I have seen some things about TikiWiki and > MediaWiki.
My vote is for Twiki (http://twiki.org/). MediaWiki obviously has the advantage that almost everyone is familiar with it due to Wikipedia, but I find that the markup syntax is inconsistent enough that I still refer to the documentation, despite perhaps a decade of semi-regular document authoring in MediaWiki. Can you even get a WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki? It doesn't seem to provide much of a framework for setting up a document hierarchy with standard navigation controls to move up/down the hierarchy. (Maybe with a plugin?) Instead you get a breadcrumb trail that reflects whatever random path you took to the current document, with no real indication where the document fits in or how to navigate to siblings or parents. Aside from a consistent markup syntax, Twiki can be skinned and customized largely from the admin UI to look unlike a wiki, if you so desire. There's a vibrant community supplying plugins (or at least there was a few years back when I was actively using it). Lastly, it has a lot of programmable functionality accessible from within the templates. You can, for example, generate self-maintaining lists (directories) for documents that fall into a specific branch of the hierarchy, are tagged with a keyword, or some other attribute. You can also create forms and buttons to create new documents using a specific template. I've used this functionality to create a self-maintaining table of specifications, where one column showed the client spec, and the next column showed the developer spec, and the page had a button to create a new spec document using the appropriate template. That's all doable without modifying the core-code. Like Dan said, wikis need maintenance, and a wiki that lets you automate some of that helps. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
