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#1 2007-09-14 21:52:09

zeligf
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Registered: 2007-09-14
Posts: 3

hosted wikis

I was looking for a hosted wiki solution initially for personal use.

I used the wikimatrix +choicewizard (thank you to CosmoCode, whoever you are)
and ended up trying out a lot of the services.

A relatively detailed uptodate personal impression about each one
is posted on the individual sites and also a pointerlist on general list.

The overall conclusion is that I am not impressed.
The number of wikis is absolutely overwhelming, yet the features I would need are badly lacking.

My ideal wishlist of a CMS

* import:
a facility which includes a file into wiki or imports it as a new page
inline (restricted to certain formats, notably text, html, etc.)
or attached, both with later editability

* export (pdf, html, xml)
and most importantly batch export of the whole wiki/place/site as an archive
in a format which can be reimported after offsite edits

* tag system (not html keywords, not one word stuff), a fully fledged
categorization support with tag search, index generation with a tag,
subscribing to a tag, strict search for tag conjunctions (give me male AND actor)
etc. the way most social bookmarking sites has had it for a while.

* file (attachment) management

* conflict (ambiguity) resolution

* cross-platform and cross-browser operability.
This is especially striking cause most wikis advertise the idea
that whereever you are (for me: whatever OS, browser), you can access your notes/site.
So one would expect a cms to be at least moderately browser-independent, offering the same
features/behaviour irrespective of browser/OS

* backlinks, history with diff, index generation, automatic (default) navigation,
customizable themes.
Video, image, table etc embeds, arbitrary html tags are available in all serious wikis, so not worth mentioning.

* no ads on site (at least possibility for ad-free view for a visitor)

* anonymous user comments

* subscription to site, user, category, tag, page

Most of these are commonplace technology and/or some do exist indivudually in
various wikis or other bookmarking or blogging sites.

Does anyone have any suggestion for a CMS that at least approximates these features?

Any suggestions for what I should use?
If you know a system that does this, but is not hosted, please let me know too.

Thank you

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#2 2007-09-15 00:17:17

SamePageTeam
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From: California
Registered: 2007-02-07
Posts: 121
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Re: hosted wikis

Thanks again to WikiMatrix for providing this site.

Please look at SamePage: http://samepage.etouch.net

1. You can import from formats like Word and excel into a page. You can also import HTML directly into the Html source.
2. Any project in SamePage can be exported as a set of Zip and/or PDf files. Each page can be exported as HTML/XML and used with other Web applications.
3. Tags and Tag clouds: These are implemented in SamePage, as is searching a project by Tags.
4. Each page can have attachments. Versioning of attachments will be out in the next release.
5. Conflict resolution: not sure what you mean by this. If you are referring to page locking, then: In SamePage, the page gets locked after a few seconds by the person editing the page. The page is locked from other users till the one editing Saves the page.
6. Works with IE and Firefox. Safari is also supported to a good extent.
7. SamePage has links, audit trails of page, templates etc. These seem to map to what youe are looking for.
8. Anonymous user comments can be enabled on a project by project basis.

Best regards,

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#3 2007-09-15 00:39:15

zeligf
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Registered: 2007-09-14
Posts: 3

Re: hosted wikis

to SamePage.
Thanks for telling me about this.

As I say in the other post, I excluded Samepage from the start because of the OS
restrictions, but I figure this only applies to running it as a server application
and doesn't affact me as a user of the hosted service.
This is misleading on the wikimatrix info sheet.

I will definitely check it out.

By conflict resolution I meant ambiguous pages across namespaces or wikis.

THX

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