Is there some Open Source solution in the similar spirit as document.ly? Would love this, but has to be running inside the company only.
I will provide a hosted solution someday.
Thanks, that would be great!
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
We really need to get people out of the habit of using WYSIWYG editors.
Why? Garish formatting? A really simple editor that only had the formatting options allowed by markdown would be functionally equivalent, and the great unwashed would find it much easier to use.
My primary reason is version control. It's much easier to diff text files.
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#53Can you explain how this is different / better than Google Docs? I can't tell from the home page.
If Google docs is an alternative to Word, then this is an alternative to Sharepoint. As opposed to collaborative document authoring, collaborative knowledge management allows things like collaborative document arrangement, a better permission system, links between documents, better searchability and more.
SharePoint dev here. I fully realize that SharePoint is not the greatest platform out there on a number of counts; but I can't really see this as being anything close to an alternative to SharePoint. It would definitely serve as a HUGE upgrade to its native Wiki functionality, however.
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#54This would be very popular indeed if a WYSIWYG editor was used instead of a markup language. There has been study after study showing how the wiki markup syntax is a hurdle to participation on wikipedia, to the point where wikipedia is now finally, after 12 years, working on a wysiwyg editor: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/jimmy-wales-on-new-editing-... There are so many free and open source wysiwyg editors that ca…
I like how Tumblr does it. Tumblr defaults to a WYSIWYG editor, but you can switch it to accept Markdown if you prefer. (The API also accepts Markdown or sanitized HTML)