Wiki at the Enterprise

or

Smuggling Wikis to the Enterprise

Me: Hella Breitkopf

This Wiki: DokuWiki

Wiki Software

Wiki-Software used by the BOF participants:

DokuWiki
- some pros and cons to dokuwiki
Mediawiki
- Pro: well known, support?, easy to embed images/objects, edit parts
- Con: weak editor
- further pros and cons to mediawiki
TWiki with extensions
WackoWiki
- Pro: rich language, attachments, reasonable editor, versioning
- Con: no locking, hard to embed images/objects, no integration with user-db, no editing of parts
socialtext.com wikiserver (managed box) – based on Qwiki
- email to the wiki
UseMod
MoinMoin
WikkaWiki (somehow related with WackoWicki)

important features

Usability
ACL (Authorization, groups?)
Versioning + Diff
Authentication (existing back-ends, LDAP / AD e.g.)
Name spaces
Search
Availability
Backups / Data storage (if you go larger ...)
Export to other format / migration

number of users / contributors

critical mass
useful content
upload vs. link (mapped drives)

future: webdav interface in socialtext

See also:

http://www.wikimatrix.org/
summary of wikis Hella has run
Ed Voncken has an article about Documentation for Sysadmins (with - you guess it - wikis)
Ed pointed out a current slashdot article to me: Put MediaWiki to Work for You

If you’ve been to the BOF and want to add / correct / link and found out the pw/user combination I wrote to the flip chart didn’t work1), send an e-mail to web.1105@unixwitch.de

1) The password was ok, but not the username - do s/2006/user/

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