Exciting Wiki Happenings at Work

It’s been a busy week for me at work! I’ve gotten interest in wiki projects from several teams at work and I’ve been working hard to make sure everyone has the best possible experience with these tools. Below are some notes on the recent wiki experiences I’ve had.

Wikis Examined

Dokuwiki – we are running one of these at a remote location and several teams are trying this out. It is working well as a document repository so far and it has separate namespaces available for sorting documents.
- I am filling this one up with documentation for my team and a few related teams are also using it for knowledge base purposes. The backend appears to be text files stored to the server’s hard drive that are backed up nightly via a script.
MediaWiki - I set up MediaWiki in a virtual machine here to test out some features I recognized from Wikipedia.
- This one seems to require MySQL though and since our infrastructure is mostly Microsoft-based it will probably be a tough sell.
MS Sharepoint Wiki - This one has been recommended to me because our organization has Sharepoint licensed and installed already. I’ll be testing it thoroughly next week and trying to figure out which scenarios it can best fit.

Have a safe and happy weekend everyone!

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I know you'll probably blog it, but I'll be very interested to hear what decision you ultimately make regarding which wiki package to go with. We actually dropped a Sharepoint implementation about half way in due to support and management issues… for an organization our size using Sharepoint to implement a wiki would have been like swatting flies with a sledge hammer.

We have a MediaWiki install running in house on the server that used to house our LMS, but it's had lukewarm uptake (perhaps because of it's clunky update syntax, but mostly out of apathy, I fear). I'm kickstarting the process of moving all of our web hosting to LAMP, so hopefully in a few months my options for being able to host wikis here will expand. My concern there is, of course, that easier software != more buy in.

Regardless, yay for a Wiki victory. Keep us posted
http://www.sharingatwork.com Daniel J. Pritchett

The Sharepoint wiki I have available to me is obviously light on features compared to a heavyweight like MediaWiki but I don't yet know if our decision will hinge on feature needs or infrastructure requirements. Thanks for the insight into your org's wiki practices. If you ever feel like writing more about it why not share it here as a guest post?
http://www.sharingatwork.com Daniel J. Pritchett

The Sharepoint wiki I have available to me is obviously light on features compared to a heavyweight like MediaWiki but I don't yet know if our decision will hinge on feature needs or infrastructure requirements. Thanks for the insight into your org's wiki practices. If you ever feel like writing more about it why not share it here as a guest post?
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Would they be running MySQL for Mediawiki? Let's hope they support it soon.

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