[ale] wiki choices

[James Sumners]

MediaWiki. You really can't find a more developed wiki platform than that.

SyntaxHighlight[1] and CSS[2] are definitely handy to have on a
technical documentation wiki. I also really like using wikEd[3] for
editing.

A couple other handy extensions are:

InterWiki List -- http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InterwikiList
SpecialInterwiki -- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialInterwiki
ParserFunctions -- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions

[1] -- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
[2] -- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CSS
[3] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 13:08, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm setting up a wiki for in-house use primarily for technical
> documentation. I've used Confluence before and will not be using it for
> this. It's a very capable platform but I hate managing the java crap and
> this use will require a license fee that will not get budget approval.
>
> So I'm more interested in the Open-Source stuff anyway and budget dictates a
> free beer version is required. I'm not a fan of php or mysql but have worked
> with both. I've seen some comparisons of wiki tools but I'm more interested
> in real world use and not testing articles.
>
> What have you used?
> What did you like?
> What did you not like?
> How did you use it?
>
> I'm currently leaning toward moinmoin and docuwiki.
>
> --
> --
> James P. Kinney III

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