Re: [libreoffice-website] Wiki Discussion (Reboot)

For anyone interested in the general topic of wikis, a Foswiki community member suggested using the 
following page to compare and contrast different engines. Here, for example, are MediaWiki and 
Foswiki side-by-side:

http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/Foswiki+MediaWiki

While LibreOffice's wiki is now set up, this may become helpful in some future circumstance.

-Ben

On Oct 7, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Christoph Noack wrote:

> Hi Benjamin,
>
> it seems that we have to hurry up. Things didn't stand still (although
> some people might think so), and a wiki has been prepared in the
> meantime. As I said yesterday, it should be available in no time - if we
> "omit" the request for proper handling of languages ;-)
>
> Thus, I'll forward your mail to the admins to make sure that they get
> your statements, okay?
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 07.10.2010, 13:35 -0400 schrieb Benjamin Horst:
> > Forwarding from the discuss@ list to the website@ list...
> >
> > I like MediaWiki and use it extensively, including as an intranet wiki
> > at my current workplace. I recognize it's the default choice because
> > that's what OOo has been using and because it is well and
> > widely-known. 
>
> Also by admins :-) And by the current user base of the OOoWiki. So if we
> change something, then we require really good arguments to convince
> them ... it is like a migration of one major commercial office suite to
> an open ... aehm ... libre one ;-)
>
> > However, it was not designed for the use-case of an intranet or
> > project management wiki. [...]
> >
> > Foswiki: http://foswiki.org/
> > MoinMoin: http://moinmo.in/
> > DokuWiki: http://www.dokuwiki.org/
> > MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/
> >
> > Wikipedia's list of wiki engines is here:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software
> [...]
>
> I tried to follow the CMS discussion today, and what me puzzles is, that
> we require a wiki very soon and the time for people evaluating another
> installation is also very limited, sigh. How to balance "get a good
> wiki" and "get a wiki soon"?
>
> Another thing I'd like to consider is, that we have some content that
> might be migrated from the OOoWiki ... I wrote many proposals and
> requirement specifications I'd like to add to LibO, too. But this is my
> problem at the moment :-)
>
> > I'd like to suggest this mailing list work on the information
> > architecture for the forthcoming project site and wiki, in parallel to
> > our other threads investigating CMS and wiki platforms to build upon.
>
> My proposal: Let's ask the others for some comments ... and maybe our
> intermediate but heroic admins like Florian or Guy, or Christian will
> join.
>
> Bye,
> Christoph
>
> [...]
>
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