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Are we Headed for a Wiki World?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-if-wiki-stops-sucking dept.

Wikipedian writes "BusinessWeek asks are we headed for a Wiki World?. With US-based SocialText using their wiki to leverage just $600K in capital, and European competitor Team Notepad, not to mention freeware alternatives like TWiki and MoinMoin is the whole world going to be using wikis instead of the proprietary dinosaurs like Lotus Notes?"

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  1. Instiki by Colonel+Panic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Instiki is the easiest wiki to setup and configure that I've tried. Especially if you're installing on OSX. And it has pdf and TeX output.

  2. What is it with Wikis? by aristotle-dude · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I never understood what the facination was with them. I cannot find a damn thing in most of them.

    Please enlighten me as to why they are such a good thing if they have no content or are difficult to use.

    --
    Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
  3. I've found Kwiki is very easy to use by ClarkEvans · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The Kwiki implementation is done in Perl, easy to install, and quite satisfactory. What is cool is that it has a wonderful plug-in framework, with lots of extensibility options.

    Brian Ingerson, the author, also has a very clever idea to handle Wiki Spammers (who try to increase page rank) -- Kwiki pushes all links through google.