WIKI software

[Cary Gordon]

We have used pmwiki <http://pmwiki.org>. It is not difficult to set up
and pretty straightforward to manage.

In-house, we have dropped it in favor of Google sites, which are dead easy,

For large projects, we use Confluence. It is great for documentation,
but that greatness is a factor of the time that you need to devote to
setup and management.

Thanks,

Cary

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Nina Mchale <milehighbrarian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> Facebook & Twitter: @ninermac
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Kristi Bryant <kbryant at wellstown.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hoping to receive suggestions for  free wiki software that could be used
>> by our small public library (10 employees) to communicate with each other
>> about internal matters, websites, training resources, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks and Happy New Year!
>>
>>
>>
>> Kristi Bryant
>>
>> Reference and Technology Librarian
>>
>> Wells Public Library
>>
>> Wells, Maine  04090
>>
>> 207-646-8181 ext. 205
>>
>> e-mail:  kbryant at wellstown.org
>>
>> web:  www.wellstown.org
>>
>>
>>
>> "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back
>> the right one."  Neil Gaiman
>>
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