What's Your Favorite Wiki Software For Work?

And why?

I myself have always been partial to OpenWiki but that's because it's the only one I've ever used.  What I'd like is one with nicer--ideally WYSIWYG--formatting, so we can make our internal docs look slicker. 

Comments

[Austin]

We use Atlassian's Confluence (in spite of it being commercial and thus costing more than the many other free wikis out there) for a few reasons:
1. We already use Jira as our bug system, and it integrates nicely
2. It's got good (very responsive) support
3. All the expected wiki functionality, plus lots of built-in macros for nice formatting of various things (including code, with syntax highlighting)
4. Very extensible -- Atlassian (the company) and community write plugins and encourage writing of plugins

It's got a WSIWYG editor, as well, as of the 2.0 release. Link is http://atlassian.com/software/confluence/ .

We've been pretty happy with it so far. The price wasn't too bad, either, ranging from $1200 to $4k depending on user count. (It's actually free for educational use and Free/Open Source projects, but I doubt that applies to you.)

[Austin]

We use Atlassian's Confluence (in spite of it being commercial and thus costing more than the many other free wikis out there) for a few reasons:
1. We already use Jira as our bug system, and it integrates nicely
2. It's got good (very responsive) support
3. All the expected wiki functionality, plus lots of built-in macros for nice formatting of various things (including code, with syntax highlighting)
4. Very extensible -- Atlassian (the company) and community write plugins and encourage writing of plugins

It's got a WSIWYG editor, as well, as of the 2.0 release. Link is http://atlassian.com/software/confluence/ .

We've been pretty happy with it so far. The price wasn't too bad, either, ranging from $1200 to $4k depending on user count. (It's actually free for educational use and Free/Open Source projects, but I doubt that applies to you.)

[Some Guy]

http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de

A little rough around the edges but it gets the job done. Free and in Python. Easy to hack the code for your own needs.

[zachary j gamedesigner]

I use wikimedia or whatever it is called that wikipedia uses.
Works great, people love it.

[NeARAZ]

PmWiki - especially cool as a "small wiki" (where for larger ones you'd use wikimedia or such). No database required, only php and a webserver. And it really works!

[Robert 'Groby' Blum]

Second MediaWiki. It makes for quite nice-looking documents, and is fairly easy to use.

[Duncan Gough]

I'd recommend Dokuwiki simply because it's extremely lightweight:

http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki

No database required, it uses plain text files and gzip to create archives of edited pages.

[Greggman]

Wow, did anyone actually read his message? None of those wikis have a wysiwyg editor do they?

[Robert 'Groby' Blum]

I did indeed read the message, and lo and behold, he said "*ideally* WYSIWYG" (emphasis mine). So what's your recommendation?

Mediawiki, by the way, has experimental support for WYSIWYG and development is under way: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor

And if you're looking for a personal wiki (what *are* you looking for, Jamie?), WikidPad for Windows or VoodooPad for OSX are nice.

[Some Guy]

MoinMoin has a WYSIWYG editor in the latest version.

[Hugh "Nomad" Hancock]

It's worth noting that it wouldn't be too hard to integrate FCKEditor (www.fckeditor.net) into most simple wikis to give you WYSIWYG editing.

We use Xwiki.com, which I wouldn't recommend.

[Noel Llopis]

If you want something simple to install, fully featured, and really extensible, check out PmWiki. Much, much better than OpenWiki.