I’m planning to set up a wiki for non-technical users. Is there one that is of good report and comes well-recommended?
I’m planning to set up a wiki for non-technical users. Is there one that
is
of good report and comes well-recommended?
TWiki is good.
However, I found that non-technical users found Wikis very difficult to use.
They much prefered to edit Word documents in a shared folder on the network.
If you set up a wiki, make sure you add a lot of beginner level
documentation to it in really obvious places.
Cheers,
Nat.
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From: “Ted” ted@datacomm.com
“Ted” ted@datacomm.com wrote in message
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I’m planning to set up a wiki for non-technical users. Is there one that
is of good report and comes well-recommended?
The MiniWiki originally written in 5 hours runs completely in Ruby.
It has its own webserver but should be able to server a moderate number of
users on an intranet with a moderate storage size (it is file based).
It is one of the best Wiki’s around because the search facility is much more
advanced than anything else you’ll find. It may be a bit immature at this
point.
http://www.xpsd.com/MiniRubyWiki
Otherwise there is AspWiki
http://www6.brinkster.com/dpchiesa/wiki.asp
It’s very basic and requires Windows. It’s a single ASP file and just needs
to run in a directory with file create permissions so it can create an
Access database.
It is one of very few Wiki’s that can search on multiple keywords. MiniWiki
and CLike (Lisp based) being the others I know of.
Mikkel
From: “Ted” ted@datacomm.com
I’m planning to set up a wiki for non-technical users. Is there one that
is
of good report and comes well-recommended?TWiki is good.
I have used it with moderate success, but it remains very complex if
compared to other wikis. I wouldn’t use it if I didn’t need its features
(at the time I deployed it I needed access restrictions, file uploads,
inline images and version control, and couldn’t find anything else).
However, I found that non-technical users found Wikis very difficult to use.
They much prefered to edit Word documents in a shared folder on the network.
Agree. Some users would only use the wiki to share .doc files. It was
extremely hard to get them to actually put the content in the wiki.
If you set up a wiki, make sure you add a lot of beginner level
documentation to it in really obvious places.
Even this doesn’t guarantee anything: TWiki comes with a lot of
documentation integrated inside, but in my case only 7 or 8 out of 25
users were really feeding content, the others simply read it.
And only 3 or so were actually able to format it properly 
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Cheers,
Nat.
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MikkelFJ wrote:
“Ted” ted@datacomm.com wrote in message
news:KMS-257033845-5332@volvo.datacomm.com…I’m planning to set up a wiki for non-technical users. Is
there one that
is of good report and comes well-recommended?The MiniWiki originally written in 5 hours runs completely in Ruby.
It has its own webserver but should be able to server a moderate number of
users on an intranet with a moderate storage size (it is file based).It is one of the best Wiki’s around because the search facility
is much more
advanced than anything else you’ll find. It may be a bit immature at this
point.http://www.xpsd.com/MiniRubyWiki
Otherwise there is AspWiki
http://www6.brinkster.com/dpchiesa/wiki.asp
It’s very basic and requires Windows. It’s a single ASP file and
just needs
to run in a directory with file create permissions so it can create an
Access database.
It is one of very few Wiki’s that can search on multiple
keywords. MiniWiki
and CLike (Lisp based) being the others I know of.
Do these two wikis do versioning of pages? This is essential if you need to
recover a (purposefully or accidentally) defaced page.
Curt
Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
From: “Ted” ted@datacomm.com
I’m planning to set up a wiki for non-technical users. Is
there one that
is
of good report and comes well-recommended?TWiki is good.
I have used it with moderate success, but it remains very complex if
compared to other wikis. I wouldn’t use it if I didn’t need its features
(at the time I deployed it I needed access restrictions, file uploads,
inline images and version control, and couldn’t find anything else).
UseMod wiki is dead-simple to set up (its a single perl cgi script) and has
the essential features (like page versioning and diffs) that the very simple
wikis often omit.
Curt
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MikkelFJ wrote:
Do these two wikis do versioning of pages? This is essential if you need
to
recover a (purposefully or accidentally) defaced page.
No I’m afraid not. For internal usage with backup running ever so often,
it’s not a big deal, for public access MiniWiki needs threading anyway.
The MiniWiki could relatively easily be modified to use a source control
system such as Perforce simply by checking files out and back in during
update (calling p4 edit file, p4 submit).
It wouldn’t be good to use diff directly in MiniWiki because it would
probably mess up the search facility. With Perforce it would be looking at
the latest version.
Mikkel
Hi,
I am trying to install RWiki. I installed all required packages (with
tweaked rwiki-installer.sh), however I am having a problem with ERb usage:
rwiki.rb requires ‘erb/erbu’ and ‘erb/erbl’, and they are not in
distribution of ERb found at RAA. I replaced those require statements with
just
require ‘erb’
however in this case I get the following error message:
rwiki.rb:145: uninitialized constant ERbUtil at RWiki::ContentRD2
(NameError)
(it definitely wants ‘erb/erbu’)
Did anyone have any success in making rwiki run? Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Gennady.
Never mind, I found erb-1.4.3 at
http://www2a.biglobe.ne.jp/~seki/ruby/erb.html
Rwiki started :-), now I need to figure out how to use it.
Gennady.
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From: “Gennady” bystr@mac.com
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:52 PM
Subject: RWiki problem
Hi,
I am trying to install RWiki. I installed all required packages (with
tweaked rwiki-installer.sh), however I am having a problem with ERb usage:
rwiki.rb requires ‘erb/erbu’ and ‘erb/erbl’, and they are not in
distribution of ERb found at RAA. I replaced those require statements with
justrequire ‘erb’
however in this case I get the following error message:
rwiki.rb:145: uninitialized constant ERbUtil at RWiki::ContentRD2
(NameError)
(it definitely wants ‘erb/erbu’)Did anyone have any success in making rwiki run? Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Gennady.