[ale] wiki choices

[Jim Kinney]

Mediawiki is just freakin' HUGE! It is the most complete GPL, free beer
(possibly most complete of all non-free as well) wiki there is, hands down.
But the table-space map is a tad intimidating :-)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/MediaWiki_database_schema_1-19_%28r102798%29.png

One advantage is Open/Libre Office will export decently-formatted mediawiki
pages. That would be a benefit to some less-technical team members.

I would use docbook XML and Fedora Publican were it not for the learning
curve for other people.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:43 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> MediaWiki. You really can't find a more developed wiki platform than that.
>
> SyntaxHighlight[1] and CSS[2] are definitely handy to have on a
> technical documentation wiki. I also really like using wikEd[3] for
> editing.
>
> A couple other handy extensions are:
>
> InterWiki List -- http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InterwikiList
> SpecialInterwiki --
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialInterwiki
> ParserFunctions -- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions
>
> [1] -- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
> [2] -- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CSS
> [3] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 13:08, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm setting up a wiki for in-house use primarily for technical
> > documentation. I've used Confluence before and will not be using it for
> > this. It's a very capable platform but I hate managing the java crap and
> > this use will require a license fee that will not get budget approval.
> >
> > So I'm more interested in the Open-Source stuff anyway and budget
> dictates a
> > free beer version is required. I'm not a fan of php or mysql but have
> worked
> > with both. I've seen some comparisons of wiki tools but I'm more
> interested
> > in real world use and not testing articles.
> >
> > What have you used?
> > What did you like?
> > What did you not like?
> > How did you use it?
> >
> > I'm currently leaning toward moinmoin and docuwiki.
> >
> > --
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> > James P. Kinney III
>
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consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
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