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MOSS 2007 Wiki Export to MS Word or PDF

Hello, I've started using MOSS 2007's wiki feature for storing the ongoing technical documentation related to a project I'm working on, and it occurred to me after I started writing a few pages that there's no easy way to export out all of the pages into one document. For those of you familiar with MOSS 2007, any ideas how this might b...

Looking for a wiki-style, standalone, version-control-"safe" documenation package

This may sound like it's not a programming related question, but stick with me here... My team and I have found that documenting our project (a development platform w/ API) with a wiki is both useful to us and useful to the users. Due to some organizational issues, we're forced to do multi-site development without network connectivity. ...

Can you remove dead wiki links in the "See Also" section of a FogBugz case?

We have a couple cases in FogBugz that have a link to an old wiki via the See Also section. No where in these cases is there a link in the edited text (the normal section where you enter your text), so I'm assuming the link was created through the wiki article (using the Case ### linking method). However, the wiki article appears to be d...

What's the best open source wiki platform?

I've been tasked with setting up a wiki for our developers to share project information (Server IPs, Interface Documentation, Architecture Diagrams, etc). My manager has suggested Deki and I've also heard of MediaWiki and Twiki. One project here uses Trac but we don't need it's SVN capabilities and we'd like to have a WYSIWYG editor if p...

Which Wiki Parser?

Does anyone know of a parser that can take Wiki formatted text as input and produce a tree of entities, in the same way that an XML parser produces an entity tree? To clarify, I'm looking for something that would take text like: -Intro- Textual stuff in ''italics'' --Subhead-- Yet more text and produce a tree rooted at Intro with ...

Nhibernate and History Tables

Hi, I am working on a ASP.NET MVC website using Nhibernate as my ORM. The project is similar to a wiki/blog engine and requires that as pages are edited they store a history of the edits in another table which can then be viewed and recovered. This is complicated somewhat in that each "page" can have collections associated with it that ...

How many wiki instances to install?

I've been asked to install Mediawiki to house documentation for a company intranet. Furthermore, I've been asked to install several instances - one per contributing group: non-technical users get one, developers one, management one, etc. The idea is to provide separate web spaces for each group. Is there a way to achieve separation withi...

What is the best c# wiki to integrate into an already existing website?

We need to add a wiki to an already existing website, however we want only logged in users to be able to edit the wiki and we would prefer to use our own method of authentication. Has anyone got any experiences with something similar or any suggestions of a good wiki engine for the job? UPDATE: Thanks everyone, the general seems to be ...

Best way to save web articles/pages for future reference?

I'm trying to manage a personal knowledge base using a personal wiki (currently using MoinMoin, before that MediaWiki). Apart from organizing e-books and papers, I would like to be able to save web pages for future reference in my personal wiki. I've researched a little bit, and I found a couple of browser add-ons for more advanced savin...

Developer Documentation: Sharepoint Document Management vs. ScrewTurn Wiki

Background Info I am working on setting up a method for my company's developers to share documentation and information about our various internal systems. This would range from information that would be useful for bringing a new employee up to speed, to descriptions of common problems users have with the systems and their resolutions. ...

Wiki or CMS?

How do your store your company's accumulated internal knowledge? Meeting minutes, software specifications, plans, notes about other organisations, documents for discussion and storage, agendas... We're involved in software development but it's not our primary focus. So our wiki/CMS needs to be able to easily link to files in SVN and Tra...

What documents should be stored in version control and how should they be stored?

I've found some similar questions (here, here, and here) asking about storing documents into version control. I have a more specific requirement and general question. The specific requirement is that I want to use Git. The more general question is, how should documents (for design, test, general practices, tips, etc, of a project) be sto...

What software does Wikia use and can I have that for my own hosted Wiki?

I want my own hosted Wiki so its fully under my control, but would like something as advanced as Wikia rather than the plain, feature-lacking Wikipedia style MediaWiki. What software does Wikia use and can I have that for my own hosted Wiki? Is it just upgraded/added-on MediaWiki. ...

Limit category transclusion when using dynamically-generated categories in MediaWiki

At first I wasn't sure if a question on how to do something advanced in MediaWiki belonged here, but upon reading the faq and thinking about it, I decided that wiki markup is as much its own language as HTML and CSS, and if those questions are welcome here, then hopefully this is too! If I am wrong feel free to flag this question. Update...

Hosted wiki using StackOverflow-like editing tools?

We're starting developer documentation for one of our projects, and I'd like to set it up as a hosted wiki. There will be lots of code samples, and the WMD/Prettify combination used here on StackOverflow is the simplest way I've seen to enter structured text (with headings, etc.) combined with automatically formatted code blocks. Doe...

Rolling Your Own Plaintext Wiki (Wiki inside a DB)

Anyone know of an API (php preferable but I'd be interested in any language) for creating wiki-like data storage? How about any resources on rolling your own plaintext wiki? How do other plaintext wikis handle the format of the text file? I understand I can use Markdown or Textile for the formatting. But what I'm most interested in i...

Workflow to Turn Wiki content into a system manual

Hello, We're in the middle of deploying a new software system to lot's of users in lot's of places (200+ users over 8 countries). In the past we've written a manual for the users, then update it every so often. This works ok, in that all the users ahve the same manual and it covers the main things but it has it's problems, like it doe...

MediaWiki Payment gateway

Hi, I would like to have a subscription sponsored wiki in mediawiki. I want the paid members to have access to certain part of the wiki. How do I achieve that? Is there a plugin/extension or needs a rewrite. In any case how do I implement the payment gateway if I was flagging the paid users in the DB? Any help will be appreciated. ...

What can I do to prevent write-write conflicts on a wiki-style website?

On a wiki-style website, what can I do to prevent or mitigate write-write conflicts while still allowing the site to run quickly and keeping the site easy to use? The problem I foresee is this: User A begins editing a file User B begins editing the file User A finishes editing the file User B finishes editing the file, accidentally ov...

Objective reasons for using a wiki tool over Sharepoint?

Duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/587481/developer-documentation-sharepoint-document-management-vs-screwturn-wiki I have been tasked with picking a wiki tool for a development organization, comprised of several different development teams. Sharepoint is installed and upper management would prefer this to be used, but i...