On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 22:31 +0000, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> TiddlyWiki is really good - your entire wiki is in a single file so
> it's easy to take with you on a usb stick etc. Upload to your web
> site / google and you get a read-only version available from anywhere
> on line. I keep a link to mine[1] on my iceweasel (firefox) bookmark
> toolbar so it's always just a click away. Nothing to install other
> than a javascript css browser.
I think that the fuzzy boundary or overlap between Wiki and CMS (Content
management systems) makes the decision between choosing one or the other
quite hard to make depending on your documentation needs. There are
several considerations to take into account and as I have been planning
with and evaluating both Plone and Media Wiki these are some of the
parameters I have been considering...
*User management, levels of access rights
*Maintainability from a user perspective and systems
*Size of the document area, how much and managed by who
*Design, look and feel
*Learning curve for all users, developers and maintainers
*Accessibility
To name a few I am only at systems level evaluation stage and passing
some of these considerations up the the line to developers. Plone was
easiest and has it's own instance of http listening on a configurable
free port.
http://plone.org/
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
The grey edge between the two is worth exploring.
Damian
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Damian Brasher
www.interlinux.co.uk
