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Wiki Platform for .NET

Looking for a good choice of .NET-based Wiki Platform. Doesn't need to be Open Source, but the cheaper the better. ...

Maintaining a Programmer Wiki

I was recently put in charge of the wiki for the development team. The wiki is still in its infancy, so I have a lot of room to work with. It goal is to house internal to the development team. Currently, the main piece of information that the wiki holds is Coding Standards. What are some best practices your dev team uses for its inter...

Approaches to a Wiki - Database hybrid

I need a database where one (or more) fields behave like a wiki. I want the free-form content creation aspects of a wiki bolstered by the strict semantic structure of a database. Specifically, I need this database field to hold wiki-style markup, track multi-user changes, allow reverts, etc... I've come at this from a few directions: ...

How to implement wiki-style edits in your web-application?

In a web application I am developing, I wish to implement wiki-style edits (where each and every edit is saved, can be compared, and users can rollback edits easily). What is a good way of implementing this without re-inventing the wheel too much? Thank you in advance. ...

Trac and closed source

I'm working on a closed source (for now) project that I'd like to write a wiki and ticket system about. Trac has a well-integrated wiki and bug/issue-tracking system, and has good integration with Subversion. Webfaction offers Subversion, Trac and a whole lot of programmer-friendly options in a web host. So I'm seriously thinking of usin...

How do you manage your task-list/backlog? Wiki-based tools to suggest?

I'm looking for a low-key tool to handle a simple ranked task list (aka backlog in the agile lingo). This will be used by several users, and will most likely change frequently. We already have a bug tracking system, but it's a bit too complex and heavyweight for the kind of casual, day-to-day planning we'll be doing. Really, what we ne...

Migrating content from OpenWiki to ScrewTurn Wiki

We have a large OpenWiki powered wiki. OpenWiki appears to be a dead project, and ScrewTurn the next best option. Is anyone aware of a data migration route to move our content from the OpenWiki SQL Server format to the ScrewTurn wiki SQL Server format? We may end up creating our own (and sharing it) but we'd rather not re-invent the wh...

Does it make sense to set up a wiki at the workplace?

I'm thinking of a place where we would put some documents for developers, like coding and naming conventions, build environment set-up, productivity tricks, office books and who has them, etc. Is wiki a good format for this kind of thing? Can you suggest a particular engine? ...

Designing a Wiki, design considerations and feedback

Hi, When designing a wiki application, what things should I take into consideration? So far I have: revisions parsing some sort of markup text keeping track of links in wikis, and pages that link to other pages. related wikis i.e. wikis are related to others. What else goes into building a Wiki? ...

What simple syntax can be used for rich text?

I want in an application with a simple text input, enriched with some marks to include formatting or semantic labeling. I want the syntax as easy as possible and I want to include self-defined labels. Example: [bold]Stackoverflow[/bold] is a [tag]good[/tag] resource for programmers. Tables would be needed too. HTML/XML and LaTeX are m...

asp.net wiki user control

I'm writing a asp.net web application in which I want the users to be able to apply simple formatting to the text they enter in text areas. One of the possibilities is to use a javascript wisywig editor (like tinymce). However, to keep the text html-clean and readible, I'd prefer that the users have to do the formatting themselves in ex...

Merging MediaWiki contents together

Currently I have two MediaWikis, one a slightly older version than the other. I want to merge the contents of both together, without eliminating duplicate pages. So far the best option I can think of is to use a bot (like pywikipedia) to go through all the pages of one wiki, and try inserting them into the other, renaming duplicate pag...

What tools does your team use for writing user manuals?

Basic requests are: human readable / text format (for easy version control) online (for collaboration) easy formatting (markdown ok, html is too much) strict formatting (so authors don't invent new types of titles, bullets etc.) exportable to PDF, HTML easy backup and deployment (so we can "deploy" to customers site as read only versi...

TFS 2005 Wiki Template?

Is there a Wiki plugin for TFS 2005, ie. SharePoint Services 2.0? ...

Where to put what when using CVS, Wiki, document management?

Hi, In our company we are currently using CVS for project documents, status reports etc, shared folder for installables/product documentation etc and some teams use Wiki (I don't know for what?). Now, I am confused as to where to put what. It would be great if could describe what tools you use in your setup and for what purpose. EDIT: ...

Suggest a good PHP wiki engine

I am looking for a small wiki engine that is easy to embed into an existing PHP application. Or perhaps a set of libraries to handle all the typical wiki functions. Currently I am using ErfurtWiki, but it is starting to show its age. It hasn't been updated since 2005, and several of the pages on sourceforge appear to have been hacked....

What is the perfect Regex for doing wiki formatting (.Net)?

H guys, I've got this wiki formatting algorithm which I am using at Stacked to create HTML out of "wiki syntax" and I am not really sure if the current one I am using is good enough, optimal or contains bugs since I am not really a "Regex Guru". Here is what I am currently using; // Body is wiki content... string tmp = Body.Replace("&",...

How to use InterWiki links in moinmoin?

We use a number of diffrent web services in our company, wiki(moinmoin), bugtracker (internally), requestracker (customer connection), subversion. Is there a way to parse the wikipages so that if I write "... in Bug1234 you could ..." Bug1234 woud be renderd as a link to http://mybugtracker/bug1234 ...

Can you create a "Comments" section in a SharePoint wiki?

I'm trying to create a Comments section in my wiki. There's one solution on the Web involving the creation of a "column," but that seemed to just create a second text block under the main article block. This is impractical, because subsequent edits don't create new comments - they seem to just edit the existing comment. There are a fe...

How to encourage non-anonymous editing on MediaWiki?

Problem At work we have a department wiki (running Mediawiki). Unfortunately several persons edit without logging in, and that makes it very difficult to track down editors to ask questions about the content. There are two strategies to improve this encourage logged in editing discourage anonymous editing. Encouraging For this par...