I am looking for a simple knowbase application to use for my IT department at work. Right now we are looking at phpbb which is good but I not too sure how good of a knowledge base it would make. I have googled around but would like some opinions from you all.
Thank you,
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:26:12PM -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:
I am looking for a simple knowbase application to use for my IT department at work. Right now we are looking at phpbb which is good but I not too sure how good of a knowledge base it would make. I have googled around but would like some opinions from you all.
A wiki would probably be a better knowledgebase than a forum system.
Try MediaWiki. I set it up for documentation in my previous workplace, and it worked very well.
Cheers,
Paul.
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 18:02 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:26:12PM -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:
I am looking for a simple knowbase application to use for my IT department at work. Right now we are looking at phpbb which is good but I not too sure how good of a knowledge base it would make. I have googled around but would like some opinions from you all.
A wiki would probably be a better knowledgebase than a forum system.
Try MediaWiki. I set it up for documentation in my previous workplace, and it worked very well.
We use a wiki for this too, in our case "moin".
Both moin and mediawiki are available in Extras.
Paul.
On 7/29/06, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org wrote:
I am looking for a simple knowbase application to use for my IT department at work. Right now we are looking at phpbb which is good but I not too sure how good of a knowledge base it would make. I have googled around but would like some opinions from you all.
A wiki would probably be a better knowledgebase than a forum system.
Try MediaWiki. I set it up for documentation in my previous workplace, and it worked very well.
We use a wiki for this too, in our case "moin".
Both moin and mediawiki are available in Extras.
I am also looking for something similar for private use, i.e., not to be published on the web. Is there such a tool? And since I am not a programmer, I would like to have something simple regarding its operation.
Paul
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 12:23 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
On 7/29/06, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org wrote:
I am looking for a simple knowbase application to use for my IT department at work. Right now we are looking at phpbb which is good but I not too sure how good of a knowledge base it would make. I have googled around but would like some opinions from you all.
A wiki would probably be a better knowledgebase than a forum system.
Try MediaWiki. I set it up for documentation in my previous workplace, and it worked very well.
We use a wiki for this too, in our case "moin".
Both moin and mediawiki are available in Extras.
I am also looking for something similar for private use, i.e., not to be published on the web. Is there such a tool? And since I am not a programmer, I would like to have something simple regarding its operation.
Wikis don't have to run on public web servers; you could run it equally well on your desktop box for your own private use.
Paul.
A Wiki would probably be your best bet for this. However if you would like to manage a set of documents or runbooks give knowledge tree a read, http://http://www.ktdms.com.
-cs On Jul 29, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 12:23 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
On 7/29/06, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org wrote:
I am looking for a simple knowbase application to use for my IT department at work. Right now we are looking at phpbb which is good but I not too sure how good of a knowledge base it would make. I have googled around but would like some opinions from you all.
A wiki would probably be a better knowledgebase than a forum system.
Try MediaWiki. I set it up for documentation in my previous workplace, and it worked very well.
We use a wiki for this too, in our case "moin".
Both moin and mediawiki are available in Extras.
I am also looking for something similar for private use, i.e., not to be published on the web. Is there such a tool? And since I am not a programmer, I would like to have something simple regarding its operation.
Wikis don't have to run on public web servers; you could run it equally well on your desktop box for your own private use.
Paul.
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On 7/29/06, Chris Strzelczyk chris4136@gmail.com wrote:
A Wiki would probably be your best bet for this. However if you would like to manage a set of documents or runbooks give knowledge tree a read, http://http://www.ktdms.com.
Thanks, Chris and Paul.
Paul
Thank you all that replied. I choose TWiki. I like the interface and it is easy to use.
On 7/30/06, Paul Smith phhs80@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/29/06, Chris Strzelczyk chris4136@gmail.com wrote:
A Wiki would probably be your best bet for this. However if you would like to manage a set of documents or runbooks give knowledge tree a read, http://http://www.ktdms.com.
Thanks, Chris and Paul.
Paul
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On 7/29/06, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org wrote:
I am also looking for something similar for private use, i.e., not to be published on the web. Is there such a tool? And since I am not a programmer, I would like to have something simple regarding its operation.
Wikis don't have to run on public web servers; you could run it equally well on your desktop box for your own private use.
I have just learned that MoinMoin has a Desktop edition:
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/DesktopEdition
(maybe the maintainer of it on extras repository could also make the Desktop edition available on the same repository).
There is also Zim:
http://zoidberg.student.utwente.nl/zim/
but it is a pain to install it, or at least I was not able to do so. And by the way, has somebody here been successful with installing it? Or does somebody know of some rpm of it for FC5?
Paul
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 06:23, Paul Smith wrote:
On 7/29/06, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org wrote:
I am looking for a simple knowbase application to use for my IT department at work. Right now we are looking at phpbb which is good but I not too sure how good of a knowledge base it would make. I have googled around but would like some opinions from you all.
A wiki would probably be a better knowledgebase than a forum system.
Try MediaWiki. I set it up for documentation in my previous workplace, and it worked very well.
We use a wiki for this too, in our case "moin".
Both moin and mediawiki are available in Extras.
I am also looking for something similar for private use, i.e., not to be published on the web. Is there such a tool? And since I am not a programmer, I would like to have something simple regarding its operation.
I like and use twiki http://www.twiki.org/ (and there is a nice wiki-feature comparison link on that page) but I don't think it has been packaged for fedora. You don't need to be programmer to install it but it helps to know your way around apache. An easy way to try it out would be to download the free VMWare server from http://www.vmware.com and the twiki appliance image from the huge list at http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/
I like MediaWiki but ... of couse the team would like to be able to upload files to attached to a record. From what I can tell this is not possible is any of the Wiki I looked at. Am I wrong, will MediaWiki allow attachments?
On 7/29/06, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 06:23, Paul Smith wrote:
On 7/29/06, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org wrote:
I am looking for a simple knowbase application to use for my IT department at work. Right now we are looking at phpbb which is
good
but I not too sure how good of a knowledge base it would
make. I have
googled around but would like some opinions from you all.
A wiki would probably be a better knowledgebase than a forum system.
Try MediaWiki. I set it up for documentation in my previous
workplace, and
it worked very well.
We use a wiki for this too, in our case "moin".
Both moin and mediawiki are available in Extras.
I am also looking for something similar for private use, i.e., not to be published on the web. Is there such a tool? And since I am not a programmer, I would like to have something simple regarding its operation.
I like and use twiki http://www.twiki.org/ (and there is a nice wiki-feature comparison link on that page) but I don't think it has been packaged for fedora. You don't need to be programmer to install it but it helps to know your way around apache. An easy way to try it out would be to download the free VMWare server from http://www.vmware.com and the twiki appliance image from the huge list at http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/
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On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 13:11, Jamie Bohr wrote:
I like MediaWiki but ... of couse the team would like to be able to upload files to attached to a record. From what I can tell this is not possible is any of the Wiki I looked at. Am I wrong, will MediaWiki allow attachments?
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ has more than you probably want to know about wikis and which one has what features and you can compare them like this: http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MediaWiki+TWiki (which says it both allow attachments).
Well I got Twiki installed and most configured - I think. Twiki has really improved since the last time I used it. I like the WYSIWYG editor. Now I have to figure out all the permission stuff. I want to lock certain pages (main web page, preferences, ...) but allow people is a certain group to create new topics and edit them. I'll figure it out.
Thank you, Jamie
On 7/29/06, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 13:11, Jamie Bohr wrote:
I like MediaWiki but ... of couse the team would like to be able to upload files to attached to a record. From what I can tell this is not possible is any of the Wiki I looked at. Am I wrong, will MediaWiki allow attachments?
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ has more than you probably want to know about wikis and which one has what features and you can compare them like this: http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MediaWiki+TWiki (which says it both allow attachments).
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Try drupal.org
Been using that for my personal documentation needs...
On 7/30/06, Jamie Bohr jamiebohr@gmail.com wrote:
Well I got Twiki installed and most configured - I think. Twiki has really improved since the last time I used it. I like the WYSIWYG editor. Now I have to figure out all the permission stuff. I want to lock certain pages (main web page, preferences, ...) but allow people is a certain group to create new topics and edit them. I'll figure it out.
Thank you, Jamie
On 7/29/06, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 13:11, Jamie Bohr wrote:
I like MediaWiki but ... of couse the team would like to be able to upload files to attached to a record. From what I can tell this is not possible is any of the Wiki I looked at. Am I wrong, will MediaWiki allow attachments?
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ has more than you probably want to know about wikis and which one has what features and you can compare them like this: http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MediaWiki+TWiki (which says it both allow attachments).
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On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 08:25, Jamie Bohr wrote:
Well I got Twiki installed and most configured - I think. Twiki has really improved since the last time I used it. I like the WYSIWYG editor. Now I have to figure out all the permission stuff. I want to lock certain pages (main web page, preferences, ...) but allow people is a certain group to create new topics and edit them. I'll figure it out.
In most organizations just requiring a valid-user login to edit any page is sufficient since everything is logged and the revision history shows who made each change. Twiki defaults to also having an admin group that can change preferences and making a user's own page only writable by himself.
On 7/29/06, Jamie Bohr jamiebohr@gmail.com wrote:
I like MediaWiki but ... of couse the team would like to be able to upload files to attached to a record. From what I can tell this is not possible is any of the Wiki I looked at. Am I wrong, will MediaWiki allow attachments?
It is possible to upload files to a moinmoin wiki, but I am not sure if that was what you were thinking of.
If a simple and personal wiki is all that is needed, then maybe Tomboy or Tiddlywiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com) could be the solution.
On 7/31/06, Trond Danielsen trond.danielsen@gmail.com wrote:
I like MediaWiki but ... of couse the team would like to be able to upload files to attached to a record. From what I can tell this is not possible is any of the Wiki I looked at. Am I wrong, will MediaWiki allow attachments?
It is possible to upload files to a moinmoin wiki, but I am not sure if that was what you were thinking of.
If a simple and personal wiki is all that is needed, then maybe Tomboy or Tiddlywiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com) could be the solution.
Thanks, Trond. Tiddlywiki looks quite nice!
Paul
On Monday 31 July 2006 22:31, Paul Smith wrote:
On 7/31/06, Trond Danielsen trond.danielsen@gmail.com wrote:
I like MediaWiki but ... of couse the team would like to be able to upload files to attached to a record. From what I can tell this is not possible is any of the Wiki I looked at. Am I wrong, will MediaWiki allow attachments?
It is possible to upload files to a moinmoin wiki, but I am not sure if that was what you were thinking of.
If a simple and personal wiki is all that is needed, then maybe Tomboy or Tiddlywiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com) could be the solution.
Thanks, Trond. Tiddlywiki looks quite nice!
Paul
Personally I use wikidpad (http://jhorman.org/wikidPad/), which is simple and quite fast. However, I still did not figure out how to compile it under Linux. If anyone could help me there, I would be very grateful and can finally migrate it to Linux ;) If anyone knows a similar app under Linux, I would also be happy to know.
Regards, Jeroen
Does any one have experence with plone (plone.org)?
On 7/28/06, Jamie Bohr jamiebohr@gmail.com wrote:
I am looking for a simple knowbase application to use for my IT department at work. Right now we are looking at phpbb which is good but I not too sure how good of a knowledge base it would make. I have googled around but would like some opinions from you all.
Thank you,
-- Jamie Bohr
Jamie Bohr wrote:
Does any one have experence with plone (plone.org http://plone.org)?
Yes, I use plone (from the Fedora Extras repo) for a small company intranet portal. It works very well, though it takes a while to "learn the lingo" (several books are available to help).
It is much more structured and formal than a wiki, and very powerful and extensible.
- Mike
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