Establishing wiki
This is more of a general enterprise/corporate question, but I suspect that my install base will most likely be a *nix machine, and I know several of the regulars in this community have experience developing small (or large) projects from scratch.
I'm in the preliminary stages of putting together a wiki for my small (~10 users) team to be used primarily as a documentation repository and knowledgebase.
I've been through the wizard at WikiMatrix and narrowed down my choices to about a half-dozen. I'm at the point where I'm trying to figure out what I need from a technical/install perspective, and I'd like to get some feedback on wiki installations as well.
Some things that may be unique to my situation:
- I'm not completely sure what my install base will be quite yet. It's very possible that I may use a homegrown server, though chances are I will be hitching space on an already existing server in the environment.
- When I'm talking corporate, I'm talking Fortune 200 financial firm. There are a large number on controls throughout the company when it comes to accessing various resources and using certain technologies.
- Specifically in the group I work in, which is basically the company's IT security department. A lot of the resources I would be using are most likely subject to our company's SOX controls (including access to the available *nix servers and Oracle DBs), which may limit my implementations. I'd like to avoid red tape if I can, considering the user base I'm looking at.
Some things I'm curious about:
- ease of install and ease of use, especially for end users that may not be familiar with wiki editing (WYSIWYG editors would be a nice thought)
- size: what am I looking at as far as install size? how does this compare to installs that use a db for page storage (Oracle and MySQL would be prefered) vs. an install that uses files to store pages?
Any and all feedback would be appreciated. Like I said, this is still preliminary, but I'll try to answer any questions that I can.
I'm in the preliminary stages of putting together a wiki for my small (~10 users) team to be used primarily as a documentation repository and knowledgebase.
I've been through the wizard at WikiMatrix and narrowed down my choices to about a half-dozen. I'm at the point where I'm trying to figure out what I need from a technical/install perspective, and I'd like to get some feedback on wiki installations as well.
Some things that may be unique to my situation:
- I'm not completely sure what my install base will be quite yet. It's very possible that I may use a homegrown server, though chances are I will be hitching space on an already existing server in the environment.
- When I'm talking corporate, I'm talking Fortune 200 financial firm. There are a large number on controls throughout the company when it comes to accessing various resources and using certain technologies.
- Specifically in the group I work in, which is basically the company's IT security department. A lot of the resources I would be using are most likely subject to our company's SOX controls (including access to the available *nix servers and Oracle DBs), which may limit my implementations. I'd like to avoid red tape if I can, considering the user base I'm looking at.
Some things I'm curious about:
- ease of install and ease of use, especially for end users that may not be familiar with wiki editing (WYSIWYG editors would be a nice thought)
- size: what am I looking at as far as install size? how does this compare to installs that use a db for page storage (Oracle and MySQL would be prefered) vs. an install that uses files to store pages?
Any and all feedback would be appreciated. Like I said, this is still preliminary, but I'll try to answer any questions that I can.
