[GTALUG] Group knowledge base

[William Park]

I used DokuWiki a bit at GTALUG website, and I sort of like it.  One
major problem with Word doc is different people have different writing
and formatting styles.  With DoKuWiki, at least, formatting will be
consistent.  But, writing in DokuWiki took a little more effort than
Word doc.  Maybe, because I'm not used to it.

I tried to install DokuWiki a while ago, but couldn't.  Obviously, I'll
try again. :-)

Word has searching, and there is only 1 file.  Just lots of chapters.
-- 
William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>


On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:38:36PM -0400, John Sellens via talk wrote:
> On Thu, 2020/10/29 10:17:23PM -0400, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> | How do you or your company maintain group "knowledge base"?  I guess,
> | wiki for internal stuffs.
> 
> We use a wiki for internal stuffs.  Have done so across multiple companies
> for quite a while.
> 
> I would go mad trying to maintain documentation in word/excel.
> How do you search across all your files?  Across platforms?
> 
> At my current place, we use dokuwiki, which I find to be a nice
> combination of features, without a lot of overhead (PHP, files).
> I even script some reports that insert pages into the wiki nightly.
> 
> Previously I've used xwiki (java) which was nice, but as it's java,
> there's a running (sleeping) process all the time.
> 
> People who wish to spend money (from small to large) like confluence.
> Confluence is very nice, but it helps if you're already hooked into
> the Atlassian ecosystem.
> 
> There are a bunch of alternatives of course, but those are ones
> that I've found to be good alternatives when I've been looking.
> 
> Hope that helps, but seriously, set up a wiki.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> John
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