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Is there any open source user-guide type creation software available?

Is there any open source user-guide type creation software available? Or is it best to use wiki type systems? We want to be able to create user guides on the fly through a web front end and accessible on the net. Or is this best achieved using Wikis? Thanks ...

Yelp competitor?

I like Yelp but I've never liked putting all of my eggs in one basket. I am about to launch a site this year (hopefully before July) that will rely heavily on Yelp for local businesses, restaurants, reviews, etc. Are there any other noteworthy competitors out there with API's? Basically, if my user is going to be in Tampa, I simply wa...

looking for django app for collaborative Wiki

I've been trying to find a django wiki app, which has the following - 1.) WYSIWYG 2.) Attach files 3.) Revisions I see moinmoin, but before going all in, wanted to see what you all have used. ...

Is it any desktop wysiwyg editors for mediawiki / wiki available?

Hello. Mediawiki is very good, but for programming tasks editing it via web is not very handy since wysiwyg is very limited, pressing 'edit' + 'publish' on any small change and waiting for page loading kins of annoying. I have seen alot of desktop wikis (personal wikis) that are free from such problems. The best example is a 'wikidpad' ...

Error 'LocalConfig' object has no attribute 'url_prefix' in moinmoin wiki (when installing freemindbrowser plugin)

I tried to embed some freemind file in the moinmoin wiki. I have been always shown the error: 'LocalConfig' object has no attribute 'url_prefix' when I tried to display some freemind attachment. What's wrong?? ...

Can you recommend wiki, forum, blog & cms plugins for an existing Rails app or should I go the route of Engines?

Hello. I have an existing Rails internal app, that handles inventory, invoicing, order taking, labeling, data imports/exports, etc, etc. Now I need to add blog, cms, forum and wiki functionality to it. It seems silly to try to roll out my own solutions when there are already some out there. So I was wondering if people could recommend...

Best practices for parsing HTML from Wikipedia for iPhone viewing?

I am building an iPhone Wikipeida game app, that requires modifying the default Wiki HTML a little bit (mostly simplifying the page). So far I am directly downloading the HTML output from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Foo to a python Google App Engine, and then modify its CSS and HTML structure, cache it, and finally output to iPhone. I...

Minimalist Wiki like script

I'm trying to find a simple wiki like script to setup a personal directory, browser favorites simply doesn't do anymore and i have lots of small files on my flash drive Desired features file upload not bloated works on a common webhost (aka php) Thanks in advance ...

MediaWiki installed on virtual server accessed through Apache ProxyPass

Note: where you will see "xttp" actualy is "http" but stackoverflow rules do not allow me to use more than 1 hyperlink in one post because I do not have enough "credit" to do that :) INTRODUCTION Hi, I have installed a MediaWiki 1.15.3 software on a private LAN on a Linux box (CentOS 5), with: Apache 2.2.3, PHP 5.1.6, MySQL 5.0....

removing mediawiki languages from a standard installation?

How doe i go about removing other mediawiki languages from a standard installation? is it enough to delete the folder? does that cause harm?? ...

How do I set a page as the default wiki page on Google Code?

I have several wiki pages on my project hosted on Google Code. How do I set one of my pages as a "Table of Contents"? I noticed that for some other projects, naming a page as TableOfContents will make it the default page displayed on clicking the "Wiki" tab. This did not work for me. How do I add a "Table of Contents" to my Google Code ...

What's a good free hosted wiki with source code highlighting?

I'm currently using Google Sites to publicly document my dev workflows and commands. However, Google Sites does not have a source code syntax highlighting system in place. Is there a free alternative to Google Sites with syntax highlighting? The solution I'm looking for need to meet the following requirements: Free hosted service At...

Script or utility to export from ScrewTurn Wiki into Confluence?

Has anyone tried migrating from ScrewTurn to Confluence? I'm hoping that I can export the ScrewTurn database to xml and then use a utility to put it in a format that Confluence can understand - perhaps the format used by the Universal Wiki Converter. Has anyone used such a utility? Is there anything I should know before I try to write o...

What tools do you use to share knowledge amongst developers in your company?

I'm looking for some good tools that help to share tips, best practices, company standards, etc. amongs developers in my company. Two tools I'm currently considering are a wiki (screwturn wiki) or Sharepoint 2010. I'm wondering if there is something better suited to the task, or any input anyone has on this subject. I'd prefer somethi...

Adding fields to user registration in Mediawiki

Hi, I've been Googling a lot, but I just can't figure out how to add a couple fields to user registration. By default Mediawiki only asks for username, password and real name. I noticed that form is a template under /includes/templates/UserLogin.php, but I don't want to modify that file to make the changes. What is the correct way to d...

database structure for threads that are editable by many users?

at the moment i have a column "user_id" in the "threads" table cause one thread belongs to an user. i want to make it like Stackoverflow that one thread can be editable by many users and you can see when they edited, what they edited, roll back changes and so on. im using symfony, is there a plugin for this? if no, are there any 3rd p...

Is there an easy way to give a MediaWiki wiki page a specific background colour?

We're looking to give pages in a specific category a specific background colour. Since every page in this category makes use of a specific template, we're ideally looking for a template change. Can this be done? ...

Wikipedia : Java library to remove wikipedia text markup removal

Hi, I downloaded wikipedia dump and now want to remove the wikipedia markup in the contents of each page. I tried writing regular expressions but they are too many to handle. I found a python library but I need a java library because, I want to integrate into my code. Thank you. ...

How should I migrate a site from ZWiki to MediaWiki?

I have a fairly extensive wiki on ZWiki on Zope (in turn on Plone). Most pages are in reStructured text format, but there are several in straight HTML as well. What is the best approach to migrate those pages over to a MediaWiki wiki with pages converted to MediaWiki and HTML formats? Of course I'd like to automagically convert all l...

jQuery script for clickNshow on a dokuwiki page

I am making a dokuwiki for our company, but because the documents tend to get very large, I want to collapse the sections and only show the headers. The sections should appear when the header has been clicked. The dokuwiki tips and tricks page shows a nice little jquery script that facilitates this click and show behaviour. I modified i...