Comments on: Enterprise Wikis http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111 User Centred World -- Ia, Usability and Accessibility Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:56:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: Ross Mayfield http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5524 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:33:55 +0200 http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5524 Socialtext is the only solution that meets all six points on your list, especially the first one (usability, wikiwyg) with the new release. Socialtext is the only solution that meets all six points on your list, especially the first one (usability, wikiwyg) with the new release.

]]> by: Emanuele http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5533 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:36:06 +0100 http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5533 Hi Ross, as I wrote in the post I have already a scheduled meeting for the next week to see a presentation of the new release. Having seen your screencam, I expect great improvements on the usability side. Will the open source version be updated to the new release of Social Text? Cheers, Emanuele Hi Ross,
as I wrote in the post I have already a scheduled meeting for the next week to see a presentation of the new release. Having seen your screencam, I expect great improvements on the usability side.

Will the open source version be updated to the new release of Social Text?

Cheers,
Emanuele

]]> by: Scott Farquhar http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5652 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:55:37 +0100 http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5652 Emanuele, Did you evaluate Confluence? It isn't open source (although you get the source when you purchase), and isn't LAMP. If they are must have requirements - we don't satisfy them. However, we have great support for the other 4 (all for over a year now). Regardless of who you choose - having any wiki in your organisation will a huge benefit! Give me a yell if you want me to put you in touch with any of our customers who have implemented wikis, and they can share some tips with you. Cheers, Scott Emanuele,

Did you evaluate Confluence? It isn’t open source (although you get the source when you purchase), and isn’t LAMP. If they are must have requirements - we don’t satisfy them.

However, we have great support for the other 4 (all for over a year now).

Regardless of who you choose - having any wiki in your organisation will a huge benefit! Give me a yell if you want me to put you in touch with any of our customers who have implemented wikis, and they can share some tips with you.

Cheers,
Scott

]]> by: Davide Eynard http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5657 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:02:46 +0100 http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5657 Hi Emanuele, First of all thank you: I'm working on an exciting project too (a semantic wiki for enterprises) and found very interesting information in your post. I had to find an open wiki I could modify and improve, so I chose only free (as in freedom) ones, but I've noticed that my other requirements and yours are very similar and I was happy to see there was one I missed (DekiWiki) that seems quite interesting. I've seen you've excluded Twiki, which after my research seemed a good product (mature, with WYSIWYG editor, revision control, ACLs, lots of plugins). So I was wondering if you just missed it or if there are good reasons to exclude it I should be aware of too. :) Cheers, Davide Hi Emanuele,

First of all thank you: I’m working on an exciting project too (a semantic wiki for enterprises) and found very interesting information in your post. I had to find an open wiki I could modify and improve, so I chose only free (as in freedom) ones, but I’ve noticed that my other requirements and yours are very similar and I was happy to see there was one I missed (DekiWiki) that seems quite interesting.

I’ve seen you’ve excluded Twiki, which after my research seemed a good product (mature, with WYSIWYG editor, revision control, ACLs, lots of plugins). So I was wondering if you just missed it or if there are good reasons to exclude it I should be aware of too. :)

Cheers,

Davide

]]> by: Emanuele http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5658 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:19:41 +0100 http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5658 Hi Davide, I left out Twiki as a big number of others because the editor is not WYSIWYG. Editing a topi in Twiki you get something like this: ---++ My Links * %TWIKIWEB%.ATasteOfTWiki - view a short introductory presentation on TWiki for beginners * %TWIKIWEB%.WelcomeGuest - starting points on TWiki * %TWIKIWEB%.TWikiUsersGuide - complete TWiki documentation, Quick Start to Reference * Sandbox.%HOMETOPIC% - try out TWiki on your own * Sandbox.%TOPIC%Sandbox - just for me * * For me WYSIWYG means having the possibility of visually editing the page. That's what my users need (and I suggest 90% of users out there, with the remaining 10% being geeks and developers). Hi Davide,
I left out Twiki as a big number of others because the editor is not WYSIWYG. Editing a topi in Twiki you get something like this:

—++ My Links

* %TWIKIWEB%.ATasteOfTWiki - view a short introductory presentation on TWiki for beginners
* %TWIKIWEB%.WelcomeGuest - starting points on TWiki
* %TWIKIWEB%.TWikiUsersGuide - complete TWiki documentation, Quick Start to Reference
* Sandbox.%HOMETOPIC% - try out TWiki on your own
* Sandbox.%TOPIC%Sandbox - just for me
*
*

For me WYSIWYG means having the possibility of visually editing the page. That’s what my users need (and I suggest 90% of users out there, with the remaining 10% being geeks and developers).

]]> by: Ross Mayfield http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5724 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:56 +0100 http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5724 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=629003 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=629003

]]> by: Andrea Resmini http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5727 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:45:44 +0100 http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5727 It sure looks like TWiki has WYSIWYG editing capabilities via Kupu, at list in the Wikimatrix examples. See here: http://www.wikimatrix.org/screenshots/screen_8_3.png It sure looks like TWiki has WYSIWYG editing capabilities via Kupu, at list in the Wikimatrix examples. See here:

http://www.wikimatrix.org/screenshots/screen_8_3.png

]]> by: Emanuele http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5775 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:15:15 +0100 http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5775 Andrea, thank you for the information. Anyway I tried to find an online public demo of twiki with a working WYSIWYG editor without success. Can you share a link on this? Emanuele Andrea,
thank you for the information. Anyway I tried to find an online public demo of twiki with a working WYSIWYG editor without success.

Can you share a link on this?

Emanuele

]]> by: Andrea Resmini http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5784 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:09:10 +0100 http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-5784 Although searching the TWiki website is, well, an experience per se (and worth an article, probably), you can download the WYSIWYG plugin here http://twiki.org/p/pub/Plugins/WysiwygPlugin/WysiwygPlugin.zip and you can find the finer prints and instructions here http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki04/WysiwygPlugin This should be enough to get you started. What I can add is that the Kupu editor [http://kupu.oscom.org] is a neat piece of software and one of our pet project up there at OSCOM. Although searching the TWiki website is, well, an experience per se (and worth an article, probably), you can download the WYSIWYG plugin here

http://twiki.org/p/pub/Plugins/WysiwygPlugin/WysiwygPlugin.zip

and you can find the finer prints and instructions here

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki04/WysiwygPlugin

This should be enough to get you started. What I can add is that the Kupu editor [http://kupu.oscom.org] is a neat piece of software and one of our pet project up there at OSCOM.

]]> by: ErikC http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-6258 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:29:30 +0100 http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/111#comment-6258 Clearly, nothing touches MindTouch's DekiWiki with respect to usability, extensibility, and interoperability. For more information take a look at www.OpenGarden.org and dig into the documentation; especially the many many pages on Dream. It will very quickly become clear who is and will continue to dominate this space. The product and source code speaks for itself. Cheers! Clearly, nothing touches MindTouch’s DekiWiki with respect to usability, extensibility, and interoperability. For more information take a look at www.OpenGarden.org and dig into the documentation; especially the many many pages on Dream. It will very quickly become clear who is and will continue to dominate this space. The product and source code speaks for itself. Cheers!

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