Re: [IUG] Internal Wiki for III information

["Bill Hudson" <bhudson at lancasterlibraries dot org>]

We're just rolling out a similar service using DekiWiki from MindTouch.org.
It's open source and nearly braindead easy to use. The thing that sold it to
my end users was the WYSIWYG editor, no wiki markup to learn for simple page
construction. 

You can get it as a virtual machine so if you have any experience with
VMware, you can have a wiki up and running in 15 minutes. If you've never
used VMware, you can still get it up and running on a Windows PC in less
than an hour. There's a fairly active support community and unlike a lot of
other products out there, you can purchase support from MindTouch. There's
also a hosted version for free or a pro hosted version for about $100 a
year. We're running it internally and have it setup to do authentication
against Active Directory. 

It's gotten rave reviews in the tech press for ease of use and its ability
to serve as a platform to roll in other services and applications, i.e.
Youtube videos, Google charts/spreadsheets/maps, Flickr slideshows, RSS,
etc. 
Give me a shout if you'd like more info. 
BH

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Bill Hudson
Deputy Administrator/Manager, Information Technology
1866 Colonial Village Lane, Ste. 107
Lancaster, PA  17601
717-207-0500 ext. 1269
http://www.lancasterlibraries.org
AIM: billhudson2008
 

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> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:55 AM
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> Subject: Re: [IUG] Internal Wiki for III information
> 
> Tomlinson, Andrea wrote:
> > We are considering creating an internal wiki to store all 
> of our III 
> > polices procedures and training resources in one central 
> location to 
> > help make staff transitions easier.  I am sure that other libraries 
> > are using wikis for staff and would like to know what 
> products are you 
> > using and how do staff feel about the wiki?  Off list replies are 
> > great and if interest exists I will compile and post a report.
> > Thanks,
> > Andrea
> 
> We use MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/) in house and 
> also provide it for those libraries in our consortium that 
> want a wiki and host their websites on our servers.  At the 
> moment it's installed on a couple of servers running Fedora 
> Core 6 and one running Fedora Core 7.
> 
> <note>
> Fedora has proven quite stable for our servers.  However, it 
> is bleeding edge and the upgrade cycle runs at a pretty quick 
> pace.  We're gradually shifting to CentOS with it's longer 
> cycle, it just hasn't reached all the servers yet.  Since 
> CentOS is based on the Redhat code base which is, in turn, 
> based in large part on the Fedora code base, it should work 
> the same once it reaches those servers.
> </note>
> 
> ...hope that helps.
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