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Good wiki software for internal company use?

Hi, I'm going to be starting up a company wiki for internal use. I'm wondering what existing wiki software people would recommend to accomplish this. Here's what I'm looking for: Open-source/free Ability to store pdf/word documents, and clicking on a link to it would automatically open the document Easy to use wysiwyg editor Relativ...

What is the best open source wiki system ?

Hi, My boss asked me today to look for wiki system to install on our shared hosting site (PHP, MySQL support). We are not-for profit organization and have 30 employees (student-workers) I've been reading and comparing some wikis at the wikimatrix . Rihgt now, I am considering Dokuwiki. But I prefer a wiki that supports MySQL. I want ...

phpDocumentor to wiki?

My company is working on end user/developer docs using mediawiki. I'd like to take a lot of the API docs that phpdoc spit out (for specific functions/methods) and have it in wiki markup for easy transfer. Any solutions out there for getting wiki markup or wiki output from phpDoc? I've looked around and found nothing. ...

What's the best way to integrate Rails Restful Auth App Login into Wiki (MediaWiki?)

I have a ruby on rails app using restful authentication and I'm looking to add a Wiki to my site. MediaWiki looks like my best option since it's full featured and I can work with the LAMP stack. However, I'm not sold on MediaWiki if there's another (preferably open source) app that will integrate better. I would like to know if anyone...

Is there a parser/way available to parser Wikipedia dump files using Python?

I have a project where in I collect all the wikipedia articles belonging to a particular category, pull out the dump from the wikipedia, and put it into our db. So I should be parsing wikipedia dump file to get the stuff done. Do we have an efficient parser to do this job. I am a python developer. So I prefer any parser in python. If not...

Lighweight markup (wiki) language for documenting

When I write papers or documentation it makes think using LaTeX or OpenOffice is overkill as I usually only need some markup elements (bold, headlines, lists, ...) . I'd like to write my documents using a wiki style markup as this is very efficient. For example: = Introduction = '''HTML''' is a markup language... In the end I'd like ...

MediaWiki documentation with external user access control

We are using MediaWiki inhouse for our software and hardware documentation. It looks like granting / revoking "read access" to parts of the documentation for our external users - customers, project partners - is not easy to achieve. How could we control read access to some areas of the documentation based on user or role access rights? ...

How to make team more cross-functional?

The problem we have now in your development process, is that there are a few people, who don't make team more cross-functional. So, sometimes this people can become a bottleneck for some parts of the project. They don't like using Wiki for the shared knowledge issues, they don't post enough comments to their tickets in Issue tracker sys...

Does SharePoint in any way support Wiki markup languages?

I tend the think the answer is no based on this article. There is so much noise with these search terms that I am having problems coming up with a definitive answer. ...

How to build project's knowledge base?

The problem we have now in our team is that sometimes, when you need to start with different module/component you need to spend huge time amount for reviewing and understanding this part. How it works, what it does, what pitfalls, or some project's size manuals how environment or stubs can be set for component setup or testing, for exam...

What is your favorite python decorator?

Have you got a python decorator that you really love? Post it here! Here is my favorite, although since I have not known about the feature very long, it may change soon... def debug(f): """ Decorator. Function will enable debugging just for itself. Won't change anything if debugging is already enabled. """ def d...

What is the best choice for a corporate wiki/blog software tool

With no limits on the technology and cost what is the best wiki/blog solution for corporate use. I have a customer that wants to use blogs to post up-to-date information on company standards for discussion and dissemination, then when the blog entries have been massaged they want to move the content to a wiki page as a more permanent pla...

What Wiki Will I Want?

Duplicate of What is the best open source wiki system ? I need to setup a closed-wiki system, i.e.: Any user can view everything Only registered users can contribute Even then their contribution must be approved by a moderator/editor/administrator before it is displayed to the public. Anyone know of a wiki (preferably open sour...

Move Sharepoint Wiki between site collections

I've got two sharepoint site collections. Now i have a Wiki in one and i want to move it to te second one. I did the move with creating a template and import it into the new one. The problem í've got now is the links. The Wiki links are refering to the old location. Does any one a solution for this? ...

Web 2.0 and dial-up: how make it as painless as possible?

I'm trying to put a workable plan together for a charity that could really make good use of a forum and a wiki, but a crucial part of its operations happen in parts of the world where dial-up connection dominates and probably will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. This site was recommended as one that behaves well even on a ...

ScrewTurn wiki and custom asp.net membership provider

I'm thinking of implementing the Screwturn Wiki for documenting the administration area of a website. I would like to use the existing custom asp.net membership provider so that access to the wiki is seamless. So it would look something like this: http://www.example.com/admin - Existing administrative area http://www.example.com/admin/...

Which wiki to use after MediaWiki?

We're thinking of moving from our existing installation of MediaWiki to something more feature-rich. I'm trying to find all the pains people have with MediaWiki today (mainly it's poor handling of external documents and less-than-perfect editing capabilities - compared to Word). We are using a wiki for design, spec, process guidelines. ...

Need a simple wiki system to replace DokuWiki to integreate with my homepage

Hi, Currently I'm using DokuWiki to manage my apps/scripts documentation, some articles I write and stuff like that... I like DokuWiki very much, it's simple and powerful but it's still too much for the use I've given it in the last 1/2 years. I need something else, something different... I'm looking for a way to integrate the little ...

Is there a Code Documentor with Wiki?

I am wondering if there is a code documentor that can sync with a wiki. This would be useful for libraries where the end-users could edit better descriptions of function uses and examples. And any changes in the function signature could be automatically reflected on the wiki. Please let me know if there is something like this out ther...

Using Customized Wiki (MediaWiki, TWiki, XWiki or other) to build scalable Website

Has anyone used Wikis to create highly customized and scalable website that does not look like Wikipedia? Answers.com Wiki is one that I know of. If yes, how much of an effort was to customize the existing code or create new templates/plugins? Which Wiki platform was used? ...