Any wiki suggestions?

[jducoeur]

Time for the next bit of tech for work: I'm looking for a good wiki. CommYou probably needs a couple of wikis -- one on the internal development server on "how you build this thing", and one on the soon-to-be public server for documentation. (I'm leaning towards a wiki for my documentation, since it allows me to open it up to trusted members of the community to help out. In general, one thing I think LJ's done right is getting the community involved.)

Anyway, there are about six million wiki platforms out there, so I'm curious whether my friends have any suggestions of good ones. My needs include:

• I'm more interested in ease of maintenance than most other features: I'd like something that's fairly easy to get configured up and running.


• I don't think I need massive power and complexity -- my needs are pretty straightforward. Some straightforward way to include images would be Very Useful, though. (This is an aspect that many wikis fall down on.)


• It needs to be stylable, but that mostly means that I should be able to apply CSS easily.


• I lean slightly towards something based on JVM/MySQL, since those will certainly be installed and working on the servers, but I'm open to Perl/PHP/whatever, so long as it's a common platform.


• Decent access control is utterly crucial, so I can open editing up to specific members of the community while keeping admin privs locked down. This is *not* going to be editable by the general public, so some kind of group management would be helpful.


• The ability to shove all the wiki framing out of the way would be Very Nice: for purposes of the average reader, I'd prefer that it look a bit more like a conventional web page.

So basically, I need something that's more powerful than basic WikiWikiWeb or ProWiki, but MediaWiki may be overkill for my purposes. (And I don't love its standard look-and-feel anyway -- it just *screams* "wiki" rather than "webpage".)

Opinions? Eventually I'll probably switch over to using Querki, but I really can't afford the month needed to get that project bootstrapped right now...

Comments

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend MoinMoin, off the cuff, especially for the level of ACL control it sounds like you need: We use MoinMoin at work (with groups powered by LDAP) and have found it pretty powerful for that, and I believe it's reasonably configure the styling on.

[talvinamarich.livejournal.com]

http://cloudwiki.sourceforge.net/doc/Cloud%20Wiki.html

Now, this may or may not meet all your needs. It's not currently being supported so far as I know: WYSIWYG. The example Wikis are no longer up, for instance.

But if you want a Wiki that gets out of the way and lets you work, with password protection, it's pretty good.

[siderea]

Free only? We're using Confluence, which is pretty slick. I'm unhappy with things about it, which are pretty intrinsic to wikis as opposed to specific to it.

[rickthefightguy.livejournal.com]

I like bpwiki. But then, I haven't used anything else.

[laurion]

I've played with a lot of different wikis in the past year, including pbwiki, mediawiki, moinmoin (nice one that), twiki, confluence (Deis uses that for some things), qwikiwiki, lunawiki, phpwiki, pmwiki (good for some things), etc. One of my projects was to look into wikis. I'd recommend Dokuwiki for a good blend of pluggable functionality, flexible storage, and moderate power. It has ACLs as an inherent feature, rather than something tacked on (MediaWiki). File/image inclusion isn't _too_ bad compared to many. http://www.splitbrain.org/projects/dokuwiki

[umbran.livejournal.com]

(And I don't love its standard look-and-feel anyway -- it just *screams* "wiki" rather than "webpage".)

I think that's a feature, rather than a problem, if you ever intend to let the public see the thing. Wikis are working space, web pages aren't. Trying to make one look like the other will tend to confuse the audience.