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Java wiki engine

There are plenty of java wiki engines http://java-source.net/open-source/wiki-engines I'm currently looking for good lightweight wiki , something like the community wiki on stackoverflow , that can be easily integrated into excising applications. Please write about something that you have used. ...

Wiki with good support for page moves?

We use DokuWiki to manage our internal documentation but the page renames / moves are not supported very well (there is no built-in way other than messing with raw files manually and the third-party plugin 'pagemove' is no longer developed). Which is a pain. I'm looking for an alternative which will be similarly simple as DokuWiki (must...

Setting up a mutual belongs_to in Ruby on Rails

I'm creating a wiki. Each Article has_many Revisions, and an Article belongs_to a single current_revision. So in the database, Articles have a single reference to a Revision's id, and Revisions each have a single reference to the Article they belong to. Before I continue, does this seem like a sane way to do things? It strikes me as ...

Recommend a note taking wiki-like "super" application?

Hello, I'll start with the applications that I've already evaluated and/or used: Wikidpad Pros: fast switching between the edit and view modes; nice syntax (especially for pasting code snippets or just raw ASCII text, nice indenting visual clues); it is standalone application that don't require server; the wiki pages can be kept in...

How to automate updating a trac wiki page?

I have a trac wiki page I'd like to update automatically on a regular basis (say, once an hour) with data fetched by a script. I can get the script to generate the wiki markup. How would you then upload that to the trac page? I want to replace the whole body of the page. I would prefer a solution in python, as the rest of the stack (t...

organizing information for a software development organization

over time our information strategy has gone all over the place and we are looking to have a clearer policy and a more explicit way for everyone to be in sync on information sharing. Some things to note is that the org is 300+ people and is in multiple countries across the world. Also, we have people that are comfortable in Sharepoint, ...

should an organization delete data (wiki, sharepoint, etc)

There was a similar question discussed around collaboration tools but one point wasn't fully agreed upon. As we now have all of these collaboration and documentation tools (WIKIs, sharepoints, blogs, etc) to keep track of project plans, busienss requirements, technical documentation, etc, the question is "should we ever delete this dat...

Codaset wiki markup

I'm sure this is a stupidly simple question, so I apologize in advance. I'm playing with Codaset's wiki right now and trying to create a link to another page. I was assuming that using a word like "AnotherPage" would automatically create a link to a new page, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Since I'm using Markdown with the wi...

Does software exist for the sole purpose of reading Wikipedia? Reasons inside:

Like many, I look at wikipedia to in a way learn about computers and computer science. But I frequently fall for the problem of opening more and more wiki pages, based on the related links at the bottom of a wiki page or whenever I find a word I don't know in an article. I try to read them as they come along, but the number of tabs expan...

Single sign on with confluence wiki

Hello, I would like to use our current intranet as the main application to authenticate users. Confluence should be able to ready the cookie I created from the intranet to authenticate the user automatically without prompting them for a username/password. I read a bit about seraph here: http://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-seraph/latest/...

Sharepoint Wiki re-use of link

In a Windows app we have a link to create a document in our Sharepoint Wiki (socially created help system) http://maxnet/IT/Development/_layouts/CreateWebPage.aspx?List={9d81229a%2D29f5%2D4dc1%2D80f8%2Deb10c55b906b}&RootFolderUrl=Help%20Wiki&Name=HowToPrint Calling this page several time, even after the Wiki doc was created sti...

tools for generating wiki format article (mark up code)

when creating spreadsheets in wiki, is there any tools provides converting spreadsheets into mark up codes? So make it edit in GUI. Thanks. ...

What's the best way to store this data structure?

I'm creating a kind of wiki site and have a data structure which consists of a parent entity which has a one to many relationship to a child entity. I'm currently storing this in two tables in the database, with a foreign key relationship from the child entity table to the parent entity table. I need to version this data structure in my...

What goes into rolling your own wiki using c# and sql?

I'd like to understand how a wiki works, at least from a high level. When a user saves changes, does it always insert a new row in the database for that wiki article (10 revisions, 10 rows in the database). ...

Building a wiki application?

Hi folks, I'm building this app in Python with Django. I would like to give parts of the site wiki like functionality, but I don't know how to go on about reliability and security. Make sure that good content is not ruined Check for quality Prevent spam from invading the site The items requiring wiki like functionality are just a f...

Compiling emails into project documentation

What's the best way to turn a bunch of email threads into a working project documentation? This other stack overflow question seems a little stale, but might be the right idea: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11612/is-there-any-wiki-engine-that-supports-page-creation-by-email Also, Evernote shared notebooks might be an idea: http://...

Confluence Persistence

Is there a simple in built way to maintain data in Confluence when writing your own macro? This data needs to be quaryable across pages, i.e the user will add the marco to their wiki page. Then this data can be queried by another summary macro. I have read something about Bandana but I am not sure how to get this to work with my plugin....

whats the best way to allow users to edit a site wiki style

and have the changes save straight to the mysql db only requiring an email address to make the change ...

Wiki problem with anchor

I'm developing a project based on a wiki. One of its functionality is assigning anchors to heading (h1. h2.,etc) and I want to link a word to one of this anchors so when it's clicked the page automatically scrolls down to the correct heading. As it says on the help page the anchor should be used as following: Redmine assigns an anch...

How do I link to a network share in Trac Wiki?

I'm trying to include a link to documentation that lives on an internal network share from our internal Trac Wiki. I know that the formatting is [[file://...]] for a file located on the same machine as Trac, but do I use [[file:////server/share/folder/file.ext]] for a networked file? Thanks for the help and let me know if this isn't cle...