[vox-tech] tikiwiki

[Larry Ozeran]

On 5/11/06 at 2:23 PM Stuart Turner sent:

>Larry Ozeran wrote:
>>> Anyone with insights in how you chose (actually not theoretically) 
>>> one Wiki over another would be much appreciated, particularly if you 
>>> wish you had done something differently for some reason. Thanks. 
>We have used or dabbled with various wiki's including TikiWiki and the 
>Wikimedia engine (and others). Wikimedia excelled regarding the ease of 
>deployment (LAMPP stack), simplicity of the wiki markup and overall 
>familiarity with those who have read or edited content on Wikipedia. 
>However, most of the wiki's we used were limited in several key features 
>important to our projects:
>
>1) Permissions
>We require the ability to have secure areas for both viewing and 
>editing, including assigning users and roles (groups) to pages or page 
>content areas (e.g. "spaces")
>2) A robust search engine
>3) Ability to export content to MSWord or PDF (most of our partners work 
>deeply within a Microsoft Office culture)
>4) Efficient and reliable backup and recovery mechanisms
>5) Good WYSIWYG editing
>
>Although not open source nor free (we qualify for educational 
>discounts), we have settled on Atlassian software's Confluence (wiki) 
>and JIRA (issue tracking, project management) suite. JIRA's project or 
>issue tracking summaries may be embedded automatically (mostly using 
>RSS) within the wiki content in the Confluence product. One negative of 
>Confluence is that it does not provide an automatic "Table of Contents" 
>as does Wikimedia if you format your content using headings, although 
>there is a plug-in.
>
>Aside from the specific application or product, in general, the use of 
>Wiki's has been overall infectious and the most successful collaborative 
>component of our various projects.
>
>Links:
>Atlassian:
>http://www.atlassian.com/
>
>Confluence Wiki:
>http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/
>
>~ Stuart
Thanks for your help. This is really useful. I'll try to post something in a few months regarding my experience with whatever we choose.

- Larry