My company has utilized MediaWiki, Twiki and Confluence (current) over my year with the company. By far, Confluence is the worst in my opinion. Despite Twiki's setup pains, I still prefer it over MediaWiki (and other wiki's I've personally tried for that matter).
How do you do in-company documentation (enterprise wiki)?
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Re: How do you do in-company documentation (enterprise wiki)?
#12I see a lot of people bashing Confluence here.. may I ask why? Having used Twiki, DocuWiki, MediaWiki, and now Confluence; it has become my enterprise wiki of choice. If you can get over its J2EE requirements which make for a huge PITA when the time to upgrade to the next version or make it work with other J2EE applications on the same Tomcat instance, it's a pretty productive tool. It gets the job done, its straight-forward to use, and performs quite good. Can I ask why there are a lot of disenchanted Confluence users out there?
Re: How do you do in-company documentation (enterprise wiki)?
#13I've been using git-wiki recently, with great success:
Re: How do you do in-company documentation (enterprise wiki)?
#14Have you checked out PBWiki? I've heard good things, but haven't done anything with it personally. http://pbwiki.com/business.wiki
I just set it up, it looks quite good.
Re: How do you do in-company documentation (enterprise wiki)?
#15Sharepoint!
(No just kidding we use confluence among others)
Re: How do you do in-company documentation (enterprise wiki)?
#16One to check out that has been used internally here is DekiWiki ("enterprise-friendly"). We've also began to use it on external collaborative projects. For dev you can't beat Trac right now but Redmine may just superceed Trac. Ones I tend to avoid are TWiki (hugely extensible, but therein lies its weakness) and horrors of all horrors - sharepoint. MediaWiki of "old" is great if you need something up quicky.
Re: How do you do in-company documentation (enterprise wiki)?
#17If you need extensibility and power, go with TWiki.
Re: How do you do in-company documentation (enterprise wiki)?
#18Confluence :(
Nothing sucks more that Confluence - I feel your pain all too well :(
Re: How do you do in-company documentation (enterprise wiki)?
#19Confluence :(
Why the frown? I've had success with Confluence at 4 or 5 companies. My biggest complaint is the handling of major revisions to a hierarchy of documents but that's something that's probably specific to me.
Confluence is a great fit for business and technical people in my experience.
Re: How do you do in-company documentation (enterprise wiki)?
#20I see a lot of people bashing Confluence here.. may I ask why? Having used Twiki, DocuWiki, MediaWiki, and now Confluence; it has become my enterprise wiki of choice. If you can get over its J2EE requirements which make for a huge PITA when the time to upgrade to the next version or make it work with other J2EE applications on the same Tomcat instance, it's a pretty productive tool. It gets the job done, its straight…
Our install of Confluence is dog slow and gives a lot of Internal Server Errors - granted that is probably because whoever set it up has done so badly and on inadequate hardware.
Its WYSIWYG editor annoys me quite a bit, and I find its Markup a bit clunky.
I guess my distaste for Confluence comes mostly from the slowness, which is probably not Confluence's fault. Also, editing pages on my Trac install is so much more pleasant.