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January 25, 2006

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. 

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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.)

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.)

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

MoinMoin has a WYSIWYG editor in the latest version.

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.

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

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