Wiki recommendations -- Practical Experience

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On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Xander Pirdy <xander.pirdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am sure that in your reading you have come accross wikimatrix
> (http://www.wikimatrix.org/), which allows you to examine multiple wiki's
> concurrently, as well as provides a selector program (though it isn't
> perfect) that may aide in your search.
>
> I also thought that I may mention using google
> wave(http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/Installation) for what
> you want to do. It has many many add ons, is open source and somewhat bridges
> the gap between email and wiki's imho.
>
> I would also recomend once you narrow it down to just try them out and get
> feedback from the users. I personally use hatta-wiki, and love it, but I
> don't think that it would meet all of your requirements.
>
> And please do post back what you decide, because I am currious as well.
>
> -Xander
>

Would drupal fit here?  At my day job we use the commercial version of
SourceForge.  It includes a wiki that we're required to use (I think
based on JSPWiki) and its awful to use.  We're supposed to use it for
collaboration but it's quite a hindrance.   I casually looked around
at other wiki's, many that you mentioned like twiki, mediawiki and
moinmoin, and they all have their downsides.  I installed them on my
home server and edited a couple pages.  As I recall, from a
computer-challenged end-user I didn't see a difference really.  The
differences were mostly on the technical side.  Granted it's been a
year since I did this so I may have forgotten something.

I haven't gotten past reading about drupal, but am wondering if that
type of tool would be a better choice.

I agree with the other poster about google docs.  I use that at home.
Everyone already knows how to use a word processor, and the documents
are portable.  Unlike wiki syntax.

I'm going to look at the wave link in Xander's post - thanks for including that.

Phil