Nicole Engard…
Huge list of wiki softwar: c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines
Nicole again – Wiki on her Intranet
Problems to solve:
- collaboration between departments
- better navigation
- etc
Darren Chase:
They wanted:
- collaboration
- documentation/policies
- troubleshooting/FAQs
- in-house control
- web accessible
- organization
- ease of use
Options they explored:
- keep the old thing and organize it better
- static HTML pages
- cms
- blog
- wiki
they chose a wiki:
- pbwiki
- dokuwiki
- kwiki
- wikiwikiweb
- mediawiki
- twiki
compare wikis at wikimatrix.org
They chose twiki:
- easy editing
- access control
- file locking
- webs
- revision control
- plug-ins
Building twiki:
- linux
- apache
- perl 5.8
- perl modules (instead of sql/databases)
- plug-ins
effective support builders:
- make it easy to join and use
- keep it simple
- must be real world
- hands on training
- continuing wiki refresher courses
Aside – his stories between his points were great!