WikiMatrix / Need a wiki for unlimited users - WYSIWYG, other features

Joox · 2009-03-19 03:55:38

Hello all,

I've seen this site before but haven't tried the forums till now. I was wondering if someone could help point me in the right direction in finding a wiki for my needs. I am not an expert by any means so forgive me if I have to elaborate a bit.

Requirements:

Easy but powerful WYSIWYG editing (likely our most important feature)
Public access (internet as opposed to intranet)
Unlimited # of users
Good looking, preferably highly skinnable/customizable in this area
Page Permissions
Page History
Change Summary
Search (Title only is probably ok)

Cost: Doesn't need to be free (though that's nice), but we are cost conscious.
Hosting: Unless I can control mostly everything on a service, we would prefer a host it yourself solution.

Not Strictly required, but would like these as well:

Host Blocking
ACLs
Delayed Indexing
Minor Changes
Section Editing

The site will be largely comprised of the wiki, but will have other parts as well, such as a forums, calendar, and other custom things. These are not needed as part of the wiki software itself, but I mention them as we would like a tight integration throughout the whole site/to highlight the need to integrate (skin?) the wiki software into a full-fledged site.
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There are some features that MediaWiki (the Wikipedia wiki) offer that I would like, but I don't know if these are possible:

1. Fact boxes - the boxes on the sides of important articles with the most important facts about a person, country, etc - here is a picture of what I'm talking about:

2. Sections - The ability to group articles into categories and sections, for easier browsing of similar articles and further exploration of the topic. Here is a picture of a section box, as I call them:

3. Search corrections - I think Wikipedia has this in some form, essentially, if you misspell the article title, it asks if you meant to find the correctly spelled version.
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Thank you for reading this far! ANY information you can provide is helpful. Am I asking for too much, a perfect wiki, so to speak?

Last edited by Joox (2009-03-19 04:03:15)

cjtannu · 2009-03-19 05:11:32

Joox,

Take a look at MindTouch Deki. MindTouch Deki is open source but also has commercial offerings in case you need more functionality or support. MindTouch is used for a lot of public deployments for example:
Washington Post: http://www.whorunsgov.com
Mozilla: https://developer.mozilla.org/En
Institute of Health: http://www.topsan.org/

MindTouch Deki has robust permissioning and a great web oriented framework to extend to your favorite locally and externally hosted applications. MindTouch Deki has an intuitive interface and stores everything as XHTML to ensure standards compliance.

I encourage you to take a look at our offering, we have our Open Source package which can be downloaded from here: http://wiki.developer.mindtouch.com and our Commercial Package which can be downloaded from here: http://www.mindtouch.com/Download

If you have any question about the products, features, or offerings please feel free to stop by our support section and chat with one of our reps: http://www.mindtouch.com/support

SamePageTeam · 2009-03-19 19:08:00

Hello Joox,

Do trial SamePage by creating a hosted domain (http://samepage.spwiki.com) or by downloading it from http://downloads.etouch.net

SamePage has all the capabilities that you are looking for in a software product. We have an extremely versatile and intuitive WYSIWYG editor that makes the process of content creation and dissemination surprisingly easy.

Don't take our word for it - our customers are also talking about it:

http://www.linuxworld.com/columnists/20 … tml?page=3
http://www.infoworld.com/news/feeds/09/ … ?source=gs
http://www.computerworld.com/action/art … rc=kc_feat

Best regards,

SamePage Team

RicSwirrl · 2009-04-06 18:14:49

Hello Joox.

My company's product: Swirrl, fulfils all of your must-haves, I think.

Custom-branding/skinning
Custom-branding/skinning is coming soon to Swirrl.

Hosting & Cost:
Swirrl is a hosted service, and we offer a range of plans, from $9 to $179/month, all with a 30 day free trial.

Permissions:
For each item and each file in Swirrl, you can individually specify who can view it and who can edit it.

For view permissions the options are:
* 'User': just you
* 'Group': a particular group of users (see Manage users and groups for details on setting up a group)
* 'Any member': all members of your account
* 'Public': publish to the internet, so that anyone can view it.
For edit permissions, the options are the same, except that the 'Public' option is not available: you must always be logged in before you can edit anything.

Fact boxes:
Swirrl solves this requirement by allowing users to set 'attributes' on each page. The result looks similar to the screenshot you posted, but with the added bonus that the data is stored in a structured, searchable format.

Sections:
Articles about items in swirrl can be categorized, to allow the user to browse/explore to similar articles.

Search:
Swirrl's search facility currently offers full-text searching of the contents of your account, but I'm afraid it doesn't offer spelling corrections just yet. (We're working on improving search at the moment).

You can check out the tour, and sign up for the free trial at our website.

If you have any more questions, please get in touch.

If Swirrl is not for you, I hope you find something that fits your needs.
Kind regards,
Ric from Swirrl.

Last edited by RicSwirrl (2009-04-06 18:15:41)

jvelociter · 2009-04-10 09:29:01

Hi Joxx,

You might want to consider XWiki (http://www.xwiki.org) as well, it provides all the mandatory requirements you ask for. In its newest versions (starting XWiki Enterprise 1.8) we introduced a very powerful WYSIWYG focused on ease of use and robustness.

The "plus" we have for you is that you will be able to define your boxes and sections as wiki macros that will be accessible and rendered from the WYSIWYG itself. It means your users can do "Insert -> Macro -> Fact Box", they will then be prompted a nice dialog to fill in parameters, and upon "Insert", the fact box (or section, or whatever you defined as a macro) will appear rendered (as if you were viewing the page), while remaining editable through the same dialog box.

XWiki is free as in Free Software, you can download it on www.xwiki.org and evaluate it/adopt it, but there is also a company behind (http://www.xwiki.com) that can provided you with professional support and services.

Cheers,
Jerome (XWiki developer and employee of XWiki SAS)

jvelociter · 2009-04-10 09:34:50

Forgot to mention, for the highly customizable skin you can look at what other organizations/companies have done with XWiki, it speaks for itself : http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/References/

JErome.

ailaonzo · 2009-10-27 18:12:03

Hey, I will try this wiki site. I will let you know mjy feedback. thanks for the recommendation.

deepshikha · 2009-11-05 22:09:48

Do trial SamePage by creating a hosted domain (http://samepage.spwiki.com) or by downloading it from http://downloads.etouch.net

SamePage has all the capabilities that you are looking for in a software product. We have an extremely versatile and intuitive WYSIWYG editor that makes the process of content creation and dissemination surprisingly easy.

Don't take our word for it - our customers are also talking about it:

http://www.linuxworld.com/columnists/20 … tml?page=3
http://www.infoworld.com/news/feeds/09/ … ?source=gs
http://www.computerworld.com/action/art … rc=kc_feat

http://www.bibleknowledgebookstore.com/ … tml]Praise and Worship Cds[/url]

UberGeek · 2009-11-25 01:05:36

Ugh, well since you are familiar with MediaWiki (You were pointing to some screen caps from there), MediaWiki will fit what you are needing.

But, in the arena of highly customizable, I'd suggest PmWiki. With plug-ins, it'll do everything you want. And, it makes it very easy to plug in your own search engine (PmWiki is title only, and slow text search) such as Lucence search.

freezy2 · 2009-12-05 08:06:28

I don't have exhaustive experience, but for my organization I installed MoinMoin and Twiki on a Linux sandbox server... both were easy for my users to work with... I think MoinMoin was a little easier for them... but Twiki had more "corporate" types of features... in the end Twiki won out, but I think if my people could have chosen they would have preferred MoinMoin.

clivejones · 2010-04-08 03:58:52

Jvelociter, thanks for the link (XWIKI) i found it very helpful and informative.

SamePageTeam · 2010-04-08 20:30:57

Clive,

Do also check out examples and information on how SamePage can be customized to suit your needs:

http://support.etouch.net/cm/wiki/?id=62906

Cheers,

SamePage Team

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