WIKI software

[Nina Mchale]

I've found MediaWiki and PBWorks both very useful.

At my last job (academic library ~60 librarians/staff), we used a local
installation of MediaWiki as our intranet. Recent releases of MediaWiki
have vastly improved its ability to handle Office documents (i.e., upload
and download them), which was really the only thing people did not like
about it. (I encouraged people to write things IN the wiki rather than in
Word documents loaded to the wiki, but sometimes, a longer report,
document, or manual just made more sense to maintain as a Word document).
There are also a number of handy extensions; we made good use of the LDAP
authentication and a few others. They're easy to install and activate, and
while you have to edit a PHP file, no programming knowledge is necessary.

A hosted instance of PBWorks might work very nicely for you since you're a
small bunch of folks; I've used it to manage editorial projects with
mutiple authors for a journal and now for a book. One benefit it has over
MediaWiki is autosave--folks would occasionally lose content in MediaWiki
because it doesn't have autosave--and its file and folder handling
capabilities are more like a drive on a computer. If you go with a hosted
solution, you don't need to worry about maintenance, either.

HTH,

Nina

Nina McHale, MA/MSLS
milehighbrarian.net
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Kristi Bryant <kbryant at wellstown.org>wrote:

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