[Web4lib] Choosing a wiki

[D.H. Mattison]

Oct 1, 2009

Since your students are more than likely familiar with Wikipedia and
possibly might even had made contributions, choosing MediaWiki may be your
best, least-cost solution. Is your wiki being hosted within the UTO
computing network or is being hosted outside? If the latter then I think
you'd have to look at how MediaWiki compares with Confluence for security. 

You might want to take a look too at the WikiMatrix for comparison purposes.
I compared the two and the first thing that struck me is that Confluence may
not run on a pure LAMP platform because it has different system
requirements, mainly the server and the programming language. 

Sincerely,

David Mattison
dmattison at shaw.ca
http://www.davidmattison.ca