A secure, turnkey wiki

August 17, 2005 8:28 PM

A hosted wiki that offers a site-wide password and caters to the less-than-savvy?

I need to centralize an information resource for a group of about 400 people on the internet. A wiki would be perfect for this, but I'm pretty intimidated by most of what I read about configuring and managing such a project. Price isn't too much of an object and server load and bandwidth requirements will be pretty light, but a password-protected* turnkey solution is a must.

*Nothing top-secret will be on the site-- I just don't want "outsiders" to be able to snoop around.

posted by Kwantsar to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

PeanutButterWiki
posted by O9scar at 9:01 PM on August 17, 2005

Seconding the Peanut Butter.
posted by nylon at 5:28 AM on August 18, 2005

Response by poster: Unless I am mistaken, I don't think PBWiki lets me have my own domain, which (and I should have stated this) is pretty important to me.
posted by Kwantsar at 5:44 AM on August 18, 2005

pbwiki does allow you to have your own subdomain (e.g. whateveryouwant.pbwiki.com). Would registering a domain and having it forwarded to the pbwiki subdomain be appropriate?
posted by bwilms at 7:44 AM on August 18, 2005

Mediawiki is a very robust system, used by Wikipedia. It may be more than you need to start, but with 400 people, you'd be wise to get something scalable.

It is password-protected.
posted by jeremias at 9:07 AM on August 18, 2005

In lieu of forwarding a domain to pbwiki, you can upload a whole-page frame which would display the pbwiki page but display your URL in the address bar.
posted by yclipse at 10:58 AM on August 18, 2005

Web Collaborator - just sign up with them, tell them who you want to have access and done. Free too.
posted by pwb503 at 3:10 PM on August 18, 2005