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#1 2008-03-16 13:08:14
- Visio
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Is there a wiki that fits these requirements?
I'm starting up an online project that will be mainly based upon collaboration effort by an expanding team. Is there a wiki that can do all this:
1. Very strong ACL with fine-grained permissions, there must be support for usergroups with varying levels of administrative control. However there needs to be wikipedia-like seperate discussion pages paired with content where everyone including non-team users can discuss the contents. What would really really be nice is the ability for non-team users to submit changes that would need to be reviewed and approved before being implemented either fully or partially by the team.
2. History pages, with all the changes done. It needs to be easy to revert to earlier revisions. A complete audit trail would be excellent.
3. A recent changes page where it lists any pages that have been altered, including who has updated and generated new documents. A direct alert to the person who originally generated the document would be nice as well but not required.
4. Ease of use, easy to install and maintain. WYSIWYG is strongly preferable.
5. Strong support for templates/themes, it has to be very easy to customize so it can look professional.
6. Capability to be hosted on a shared server, as well as not.
7. Portal, index, organizing and search features must all be present (quick and efficient search is a must) plus the ability for a simple news/blog feature on the main page with an archive.
8. Ability to download the entire wiki for making routine back-ups, then reinstall and reupload the content in case of a worst case scenario "server explodes" situation.
9. A large amount of the documents will be linked to each other and the ability to generate flowcharts with geospatial relationships would be excellent.
As you can tell I need a sort of CMS/Wiki hybrid, which requires a very good ACL system. I need the ability to moderate non-team content as well as have different levels of access for the team itself. Is there anything like this out there?
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#2 2008-03-16 15:28:35
Re: Is there a wiki that fits these requirements?
Visio,
EditMe has one of the most powerful wiki-based access control mechanisms around, with groups and policies that can be applied to the entire site, single pages, or "sticky" pages where the security is copied to new pages created from a given page.
EditMe is focused on being both a wiki and content management system. Worth a look...
Cheers,
Matt
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#3 2008-03-16 16:35:43
- Visio
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Re: Is there a wiki that fits these requirements?
matt_w wrote:
Visio,
EditMe has one of the most powerful wiki-based access control mechanisms around, with groups and policies that can be applied to the entire site, single pages, or "sticky" pages where the security is copied to new pages created from a given page.
EditMe is focused on being both a wiki and content management system. Worth a look...
Cheers,
Matt
Your wiki seems very nice and streamlined, but at a glance it fails this:
6. Capability to be hosted on a shared server, as well as not.
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#4 2008-03-17 05:44:14
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Re: Is there a wiki that fits these requirements?
Visio,
Do evaluate SamePage from http://samepage.spwiki.com or by downloading from http://downloads.etouch.net.
SamePage is actually built on top of a robust CMS platform and thus is ideally positioned to realize the best features of CMS and Wikis.
SamePage granular security features allow you to control access at both the project and page level for both groups and individuals.
Cheers,
SamePage Team
Disclaimer: I am representing SamePage on this Forum
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#5 2008-03-17 17:18:10
Re: Is there a wiki that fits these requirements?
Visio,
I encourage you to take a look at MindTouch Deki Wiki. It is a robust wiki with grainular permissions and integration with external authentication providers including Active Directory. All of the other requirements are supported with Deki Wiki except for install on shared host. Deki Wiki uses mono, and a majority of shared hosts do not support mono. You can install it on a VPS or Dedicated Server and you can also use our shared hosting site which is http://wik.is. If you have any questions about it please feel free to contact us here: http://wiki.mindtouch.com/support
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#6 2008-03-18 17:57:47
- snarlydwarf
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Re: Is there a wiki that fits these requirements?
Visio wrote:
1. Very strong ACL with fine-grained permissions, there must be support for usergroups with varying levels of administrative control. (etc)
Tikiwiki.
2. History pages, with all the changes done. It needs to be easy to revert to earlier revisions. A complete audit trail would be excellent.
I would hope any Wiki had that, but Tiki sure does.
3. A recent changes page where it lists any pages that have been altered, including who has updated and generated new documents. A direct alert to the person who originally generated the document would be nice as well but not required.
Tikiwiki can do that.
Actually, forget all the quoting. Tikiwiki can do all that, though I would recommend a 1.10 snapshot if you're doing a new install, especially if you want the WYSIWYG editor.
As you can tell I need a sort of CMS/Wiki hybrid, which requires a very good ACL system. I need the ability to moderate non-team content as well as have different levels of access for the team itself. Is there anything like this out there?
Yes, um, Tikiwiki.
(Originally installed here as part of a project to enable some file transfers between internal and external users, a repository for boring documents (doc files of expense report forms, etc), and a way to have an online directory... it has evolved into much much more and the Tiki permission structure was a huge part of that: easy to have different departments see different things, etc.)
Tiki's permission structure may seem complex at first: I know it scared me last time I tried to install it several years ago, but it is very flexible, much like the Unix 'group' concept where users can be part of several groups, just a lot more fine-grained than 'rwx' like on Unix.
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