Hi all,
I am new to the wiki concept and I would like to get some hints of choosing wiki for a company (~50 users). Here are the demands:
1/ easy-to-use WYSIWIG editor (critical)
2/ integrated user-transparent AD authentication (critical)- (PKI authentication would be a +).
3/ Strong mechanism for working with AD OUs in wiki in order to set appropriate access rights for different departments (e.g. Top Management - view and edit all, Sales - view and edit appropriate categories, Temporarty staff - only view appropriate categories etc.) (critical)
4/ more document templates (critical)
5/ good conflict handling (critical)
6/ Translatable interface would be a +.
7/ GNU GPL would be a +.
8/ Revision diffs between all would be a +.
9/ MindMap editing would be a +.
I don't care neither about programming language nor data storage, I can adapt.
Thank you in advance.
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Kefish,
Take a look at Deki Wiki, http://wiki.mindtouch.com:
We have a great WYSIWYG editor, we are open source, include integration with LDAP, we have revisions, translations, templates, along with good granular permissions. We currently don't have support for permissions for groups with AD but is something we are coming out with with our next release: http://wiki.opengarden.org/index.php?ti … yes%2b%2b_(1.8.3)
Definitely give it a download and try it out as we deploy it as source and VMware, so with VMware you can get up and running very fast. If you have any questions drop us a line here: http://wiki.mindtouch.com/support
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Kefish,
Do try out SamePage: http://samepage.etouch.net or http://downloads.etouch.net
We have all the 'critical' factors in our software; as well as a couple of nice to have's. We are not however, an open-source company.
Thanks,
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Thank you for your replies, I'll give it a try.
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SamePageTeam wrote:
Kefish,
Do try out SamePage: http://samepage.etouch.net or http://downloads.etouch.net
We have all the 'critical' factors in our software; as well as a couple of nice to have's. We are not however, an open-source company.
Thanks,
With more and more wikis looking like blogs I would have to say SamePage got it right and built a wiki focused on collaboration. Separate pages for discussion and attachments (with tabs like MediaWiki), WYSIWYG editing, moderated discussion where user can add name and email address, pdf/word/email/print button on every page, ability to divide site into projects (similar to namespaces on MediaWiki), one click lists all pages in a project, advanced search where you can choose: all, description, tags, title or content. A threaded forum for each project, back-link navigation showing exactly where you are at, a loaded backup feature, and the ability to import HTML pages along with embedded images and attached files (it even strips the CSS).
$100 a month for up to 20 users on their base plan sounds reasonable, if you've got under 20 very active users. If you're building a public wiki, where you have only a couple very active users but expect a lot of occasional contributors, it gets pricey. It would be sweet if SamePage had a path to building something in MediaWiki, or another open-source wiki, that would allow you to import the entire wiki into SamePage if and when your open-source wiki becomes a success.
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Ross,
Thanks for the compliment!
In SamePage, the pricing is based on the number of active, registered users. This can be a little confusing because a project can be completely 'public' in that everyone can read, write and edit. In this case, an anonymous user would not count towards the 20 being outlined here.
Second, along with SamePage 3.4 that was launched last week, we actually unveiled a new import tool that allows you to migrate HTML content rendered from other products. Do check it out:http://support.etouch.net/cm/wiki/?id=42349
Cheers,
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SamePageTeam,
That's awesome and the import instructions look well written. It's a lot easier to justify the cost of using something like Same Page if I can build a proof of concept first in an open source wiki like Media Wiki.
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