OK it's 5:30 AM so take my 2cents with grain of salt - As a heavy wiki user, a few things come to my mind,
+ Seems obvious but can you copy and paste in images or do you have to upload them and link them? + If you move or change pages, how well do the links to that page hold up? Good wikis don't care what you name your page. + How well does the WYSIWYG edit work? Try to copy in different works. + If you want to, can you look at the guts of the document and easily make HTML changes? + Is there an export to pdf or word button? + Can you do CSS? (if that really matters) + What if two people are editing the page at once, can you lock a document? Can you see who has a lock on a file/document page? + What if you edit, then someone else does not update the page in the browser, do they overwrite you? What steps can be taken to prevent that? + Wiki markup limitations? I think if the engine is done right, you shouldn't need to do the wiki markup thing. With that being said, I think that I would look within the company first before using a solution you will have to maintain in house. I work in a internal glorified wiki nowadays, it's designed to only give me WYSIWYG and html markup. You can copy in text or create tables etc, like you are in a Word document. It works well, saves a lot of time. On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Joseph Apuzzo <[email protected]> wrote: > I work with a group of people and support one of 8+ complex HPC > applications. > We in turn work with 10-30 developers and 100 releases etc. etc. > > So we have a pile of information that needs to be shared. Thus most of > this information is in a simple Wiki > But the server is corporate control and due to me migrated to some new > Lotus project etc etc. ( you know were that ends ) > > So I was thinking of moving the data to a local server that only our > department needs access to. > It needs to be accessed via standard web browser, sharing a txt or doc > file is not going to work. > Here is the real question, is there a web application that in effect a > group of people could use to create a "book" > That is each team create a section on there own product etc. then this > information could be rendered as a PDF? > > As a PDF all users could then have an offline version and would be > accessible via any OS or device ( like a pad etc ) > Every time I Google this, for book or manual it gives me books or manuals > on web servers, not servers or applications that can create a pdf document. > A good example would be FLOSS Manuals, but it's not apparent what software > they run or how to duplicate it. > > Help! > > -- > /** Joe Apuzzo > ** Call: KD2AKU > ** PGP/GPG: key ID BB5C7 > **/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Sep 5 - OpenStack > Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development > Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art > >
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