Some additional information about MediaWiki...
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> On 08/28/2011 12:31 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> > Kyle Leslie wrote:
> >> Any suggestions on a set up. I have seen some things about TikiWiki and
> >> MediaWiki.
> >
> > My vote is for Twiki (http:/
On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:44 AM, David Miller wrote:
> DokuWiki is definitely worth a look if you're taking the time to vet out a
> few candidate solutions.
So I'd like to speak against this choice. My experience is one or two years out
of date, but it is at the center of of my failed projects fo
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:44 AM, David Miller wrote:
> Definitely take your time and vet out a few different wiki solutions before
> choosing one. Migrating a wiki from one platform to another is a big pita.
> While MediaWiki is probably the most well known in my opinion it falls
> short for c
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
> Joining in late in the discussion, but since no one else mentioned it,
> allow
> me to endorse DokuWiki < http://www.dokuwiki.org/ >. I'm not sure if
> MediaWiki has yet managed to create a clear plugin protocol and API -- last
> time I ch
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Kyle Leslie wrote:
> Hi everyone, my office IT group has documents spread out between us, some
> the same, some different.
> I was hoping to set up a small wiki type server so that our group could
> collaborate and share documents with each other.
> Any suggestio
On 08/28/2011 12:31 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> 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/).
I used to have a TWiki instance on my server for a long time, but I
ditched it because there were a
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 e
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Gordon Marx wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
> wrote:
> > documentation. For products with different models or version releases,
> you
> > can maintain the documentation for each version. Things like theming the
>
> What do yo
On Aug 26, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> Wikis tend to be quite undemanding until you discover that there are a
> hundred or a hundred thousand times as many people using it as you had
> initially thought.
Pretty much. A Wiki is a SQL database, a web server, and some PHP code to glue
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 03:45:20PM -0400, Kyle Leslie wrote:
> Are there any hardware things I need to look out for or is it relatively
> forgiving as far as needs?
>
> Memory, HDD space and so forth?
Wikis tend to be quite undemanding until you discover that there are a
hundred or a hundred thou
Are there any hardware things I need to look out for or is it relatively
forgiving as far as needs?
Memory, HDD space and so forth?
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
g...@freephile.com> wrote:
> I'm fairly knowledgeable at MediaWiki, so if you have some questions feel
On 08/25/2011 01:57 PM, Kyle Leslie wrote:
Hi everyone, my office IT group has documents spread out between us, some
the same, some different.
I was hoping to set up a small wiki type server so that our group could
collaborate and share documents with each other.
Any suggestions on a set up. I
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
wrote:
> documentation. For products with different models or version releases, you
> can maintain the documentation for each version. Things like theming the
What do you do for version-based documentation? Do you have the
version numbe
I'm fairly knowledgeable at MediaWiki, so if you have some questions feel
free to ask.
When I setup the wiki for our group at Harvard, I even tweaked it so that
you could use the wiki as a back-end to publish pages to a public website.
You can also set it up to create PDF books - which is great f
Dan Ritter wrote:
About once a year someone will need to spend a fair amount of time
refiling items, cleaning up dead projects and links, and otherwise
performing maintenance.
Good warning. It is easy to put cool stuff in a wiki, and it is easy
for that stuff to get stale and inconsistent.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> Kyle Leslie wrote:
>>
>> Any suggestions on a set up. I have seen some things about TikiWiki and
>> MediaWiki.
>>
>
> Mediawiki (the one that came out of Wikipedia) is in some sense the
> standard. It used to be a pain to setup but at least on
Kyle Leslie wrote:
Any suggestions on a set up. I have seen some things about TikiWiki and
MediaWiki.
Mediawiki (the one that came out of Wikipedia) is in some sense the
standard. It used to be a pain to setup but at least on Ubuntu it is
now pretty easy to do. I would recommend it.
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> It's a great idea. We've been using an internal wiki for years now.
Agreed. I'm partial to MediaWiki although I don't quite remember why that stood
out when I was evaluating wikis.
Ours started as a way to document development information but we're rolling out
access to non-technical departme
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:57:24PM -0400, Kyle Leslie wrote:
> Hi everyone, my office IT group has documents spread out between us, some
> the same, some different.
> I was hoping to set up a small wiki type server so that our group could
> collaborate and share documents with each other.
> Any su
Hi everyone, my office IT group has documents spread out between us, some
the same, some different.
I was hoping to set up a small wiki type server so that our group could
collaborate and share documents with each other.
Any suggestions on a set up. I have seen some things about TikiWiki and
Medi
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