[Cialug] Wiki Suggestion Request

[Aaron Korver]

While it isn't free, it does a good job at being an "enterprise" wiki.

http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/



On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Josh More <morej at alliancetechnologies.net>
wrote:

> Scalability is exactly the reason we switched from TWiki and eWiki to
> MediaWiki.
>
> In fact, most companies with which I have spoken have made similar
> transitions to MediaWiki... for whatever that is worth.
>
>
>
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net
>  515-245-7701
>
> >>> "Jeffrey Ollie" <jeff at ocjtech.us> 02/15/08 10:34 AM >>>
> On 2/15/08, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> > We use moin moin for our company's wikis and since the 1.5.x series
> its has
> > wysiwyg support built in. It works well and since upgrading to that
> version
> > we've had better participation from non-technical people. I prefer not
> using
> > the wysiwyg unless I need tables and moin lets you easily switch
> between the
> > two views.
>
> The Fedora Project currently uses Moin Moin, but we're going to be
> switching away probably to MediaWiki.  The reasons we're switching is
> because it doesn't scale very well (the Fedora Project's wiki is
> probably the largest/busiest Moin Moin installation out there) and
> because the upstream Moin Moin developers don't seem very eager to
> accept patches that the Fedora Project has developed.
>
> Moin Moin uses plain files on disk as it's backend storage.  That
> makes it simple to install and backup, but doesn't scale well - on the
> Fedora Project wiki it could take minutes to do common operations like
> save your edits or do searches.  It'd also fail under high load (esp
> when Fedora releases a new version).
>
> That said, if your wiki is going to stay small to medium sized Moin
> Moin's a very good choice.
>
> Jeff
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