Which wiki will work?
September 24, 2006 9:34 AM Subscribe
I need a new wiki.
I need a wiki (hosted on my own domain) for collaborative writing projects and also to manage my documents.
For now, I have Twiki installed. It’s quite good at what it does, but it’s prohibitively difficult to admin. I’ve tried for hours to understand how to create and manage groups and webs, and how to manage access and authentication, but I just don’t understand it. It’s too geeky and too difficult. I think the problem is that it’s geared very much to the wiki idea of: anybody can read and edit anything, which is not possible or even desirable for what I want to do with it.
I then switched to using writely but it’s not hosted on my domain, which I don’t like. And now that Google forces me to use a google account, I’ve decided to move on.
So hive: tell me of a wiki that makes it easy to admin users, groups and that allows me to set permissions to view, read and/or edit documents for each user individually.
In short, I need:
- real time editing by multiple users
- full control over what individual users can see (=know that a document exists), view (=access a certain document or not), read and edit. It goes without saying that it must be easy to secure against curious people who stumble onto my domain.
- easy upload of documents, pdf attachments, mp3’s and mpegs. "E-mail in"-function would be a bonus.
- e-mail notification of changes, controllable by users
- folders: I hate those writely tags ;)
- free would be nice, but it's not necessary
- if it has a "contacts" folder where I can mail or export my Outlook contacts to, even better
Thanks!
I need a wiki (hosted on my own domain) for collaborative writing projects and also to manage my documents.
For now, I have Twiki installed. It’s quite good at what it does, but it’s prohibitively difficult to admin. I’ve tried for hours to understand how to create and manage groups and webs, and how to manage access and authentication, but I just don’t understand it. It’s too geeky and too difficult. I think the problem is that it’s geared very much to the wiki idea of: anybody can read and edit anything, which is not possible or even desirable for what I want to do with it.
I then switched to using writely but it’s not hosted on my domain, which I don’t like. And now that Google forces me to use a google account, I’ve decided to move on.
So hive: tell me of a wiki that makes it easy to admin users, groups and that allows me to set permissions to view, read and/or edit documents for each user individually.
In short, I need:
- real time editing by multiple users
- full control over what individual users can see (=know that a document exists), view (=access a certain document or not), read and edit. It goes without saying that it must be easy to secure against curious people who stumble onto my domain.
- easy upload of documents, pdf attachments, mp3’s and mpegs. "E-mail in"-function would be a bonus.
- e-mail notification of changes, controllable by users
- folders: I hate those writely tags ;)
- free would be nice, but it's not necessary
- if it has a "contacts" folder where I can mail or export my Outlook contacts to, even better
Thanks!
The other big one is MoinMoin. I've never tried to do exactly what you're asking for with it, but I generally like it. Be warned, though - it's pretty hard to install and gets its fingers in files all over your filesystem. It's not as slow as mediawiki, though.
posted by heresiarch at 5:02 PM on September 24, 2006
posted by heresiarch at 5:02 PM on September 24, 2006
I run several MediaWiki installations on a 1and1 hosted service. I've found it easy to use/configure, powerful, but slow (and quite variable in speed, so slow to very very slow). I haven't noticed it getting slower with time (and more content), however, so you could simply install, see if you can get your stuff done, and be reasonably confident that would be its speed.
posted by alasdair at 7:04 AM on September 25, 2006
posted by alasdair at 7:04 AM on September 25, 2006
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posted by phrontist at 4:19 PM on September 24, 2006