OT: knowledgebase application

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sat Jul 29 12:59:30 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 12:23 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 7/29/06, Paul Howarth <paul at 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.
> > >
> > > http://www.mediawiki.org/
> >
> > 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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