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Me: Hella Breitkopf

This Wiki: DokuWiki

Wiki-Software used by the BOF participants:

• DokuWiki
  • some pros and cons to dokuwiki
• Mediawiki
  • Pro: well known, support?, easy to embed images/objects, edit parts
  • Con: weak editor
  • further pros and cons to mediawiki
• TWiki with extensions
• WackoWiki
  • Pro: rich language, attachments, reasonable editor, versioning
  • Con: no locking, hard to embed images/objects, no integration with user-db, no editing of parts
• socialtext.com wikiserver (managed box) -- based on Qwiki
  • email to the wiki
• UseMod
• MoinMoin
• WikkaWiki (somehow related with WackoWicki)

• Usability
• ACL (Authorization, groups?)
• Versioning + Diff
• Authentication (existing back-ends, LDAP / AD e.g.)
• Name spaces
• Search
• Availability
• Backups / Data storage (if you go larger …)
• Export to other format / migration

• critical mass
• useful content
• upload vs. link (mapped drives)

future: webdav interface in socialtext

See also:

• http://www.wikimatrix.org/
• summary of wikis Hella has run
• Ed Voncken has an article about Documentation for Sysadmins (with - you guess it - wikis)
• Ed pointed out a current slashdot article to me: Put MediaWiki to Work for You

If you've been to the BOF and want to add / correct / link and found out the pw/user combination I wrote to the flip chart didn't work¹⁾, send an e-mail to web.21@unixwitch.de