Which Wiki Will Work?

WikiMatrix Allows Side-By-Side Wiki Comparison by TechCrunch is an overview of WikiMatrix, a side-by-side comparison of various wiki programs.

Most people are familiar with MediaWiki, the program behind Wikipedia and the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress users. There are many others.

If you are considering adding a wiki to your blog, you might want to comparison “shop” to find the one that will work best with your blog.

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Michael Clark

Posted December 10, 2006 at 4:15 pm | Permalink

I’ve had really good luck using Dokuwiki (http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki ). It integrated fairly easily with WordPress. http://www.showbizradio.net is run mostly by WordPress, the wiki portion is at http://www.showbizradio.net/info/

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engtech

Posted December 10, 2006 at 4:25 pm | Permalink

I really recommend using trusted user accounts with a wiki.

Wiki spam is a horrible problem. Pages get edited with embedded links all the time. Every now and then I go on a “clean up wikipedia” crusade, but it’s impossible to catch it all.

Spammers have scripts that look for open wiki installs.

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blips

Posted December 10, 2006 at 8:12 pm | Permalink

I hate Wiki’s I HATE WIKI’S did I say I hate Wiki’s?

The reason is that a Wiki is a spam heaven. The moderators have to clean it over and over again.

The other reason is people can overwrite other peoples information or change them.
A wiki is also unstructured or becomes unstructured very easy.

Thats why I like a forum as PHPBB (NOT bbpress= ugly and not enough functionality)

(It is ok if you disagree, really!)

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kOoLiNuS

Posted December 11, 2006 at 7:19 am | Permalink

personally i’m with Mike up there … I do like simple wiki engines, do not have the need of a database (which sometimes costs you more money or system administation) for a personal or a small/medium company knowledge repository.

So far Dokuwiki has been fantastic”

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Michael Clark

Posted December 12, 2006 at 8:21 pm | Permalink

I didn’t mention, but the wiki at ShowBizRadio.net is not set for public editing of pages. We are using it as a content management system. We had too many pages that WordPress’ pages feature was dying on us.

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