One thing that's brought home when you scan through the options at http://www.wikimatrix.org/ is that there's lots of overlap between "conventional" CMSs and wikis, and that there's a spectrum of applications reflecting different degrees of this overlap, as Tony has already illustrated re Drupal. So talk about whether a wiki is the right tool or not should perhaps become talk about whether a particular aspect of wikiness is the right tool or not, and the goal should be finding an application somewhere along that cms/wiki spectrum.
But all I've ever done is tweak the Can entry on Wikipedia, so what do I know?
Cheers, Jeremy
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From: Museums Computer Group on behalf of Mike Ellis
Sent: Fri 05/12/2008 10:51
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Subject: Re: [MCG] Wikis
I'm in danger of heading out onto thin ice here, but powerful though MediaWiki is, it is far (FAR) from being easy to either set up or edit. As soon as you have a requirement for authors to write in CamelCase you've immediately lost maybe 80% of your potential editing audience to geek-types. And yes, I know you can implement a rich-text editor, but that isn't easy either...
I obviously second what Frankie and Mia have said - way more important is whether this is the right tool...
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frankie Roberto
Sent: 05 December 2008 10:18
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Subject: Re: Wikis
Linda wrote:
Can anyone tell me where and how I can set up my own wiki?
Will I have to pay? Is it easy to do?
Well, *cough*, as the co-author of a paper on museums and wikis to be
presented at mw2009 (http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/1346), I can give
you a few ideas. As with other types of web software like blogging
platforms, you have the option of going for a 'hosted' service, or
installing it on your own server. The former is probably a bit easier to set
up, but may come at a cost and/or adverts on the website. The latter gives
you full control, but requires a bit of fiddling.
There's a huge number of different wiki programs (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software for a list, or if you
like big tables see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software),
but they vary hugely in terms of features and community support (online
tutorials, forums, plugins and so on).
The market leader is MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki>,
which used and published by the foundation behind Wikipedia. It's not the
simplest of the lot, but has a huge amount of community support, and the
similarity with Wikipedia can be an advantage in and of itself.
Far more important than which software to use though is what you're going to
use it for, and how you frame the interaction. Do you have an existing on or
offline community you want to use it with? Or is it meant as a way of
interacting with the general public?
Cheers,
Frankie
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