WIKI documentation Software?

Sun Mar 15 15:25:20 UTC 2020

I know I'm a bit late to the conversation.  We have been using PMWiki for well over 10 yrs now.  At the time we started using it there weren't a lot of Wikis out there.  MediaWiki obviously was the most popular, but it did not provide the level of secure access that we wanted.  We didn't want everyone to be able to edit certain pages.  It was also very easy to integrate into CAS.  I wrote a cookbook for it years ago.  We use groups to allow only certain people to edit certain pages.  We also restrict viewing of some pages.  Our Security Group keeps some of their stuff restricted.  I work for the network team and we prevent everyone but our team from editing our pages.  They can view them, just can't mess with them.  Hope this helps someone.

https://www.pmwiki.org/

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Greg T. Grimes
Senior Network Analyst
Information Technology Services
Mississippi State University
greg.grimes at msstate.edu
662-325-9311

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Subject: Re: WIKI documentation Software?

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 7:07 AM Brielle <bruns at 2mbit.com> wrote:
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> I personally like Dokuwiki a lot.
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> From a usability standpoint, once you spend a few learning the interface, it’s very simplistic and not overwhelming in features.  You can always add extensions for stuff you need that isn’t there out of box.
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> From a technical standpoint, it doesn’t need a database.  The entire structure is text files, so it can be run on even a super small VM, and doing backups is as easy as tarballing the data directory.
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> It’s got support for LDAP for authentication too, which might be useful.

+1 for dokuwiki

easy to maintain, has enough features while not become distracting

only complaint is that it doesn't support markdown, but the syntax is
easy enough (much easier than MediaWiki imo)