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Implementig a Wiki in Alfreso

alberto — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:38:54 GMT

Hello,I have just put up a test server with Alfresco to analyze its capabilities as CMS (just yesterday so I do not have much feedback jet). It would be for a small company, just 6 employees. We would also would like to set up a wiki to put together in a repository our combined knowledge (whatever s

Re: Implementig a Wiki in Alfreso

dnind — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:29:41 GMT

There is the WikiSpace module in the forge:
http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/wikispacemodule/

I've used it with v 2.0 Community Edition. It provides a basic wiki, but is not perfect.

There is also the integration with MediaWiki in the later versions of Alfresco, but I haven't personally tried this out or tested it.

Re: Implementig a Wiki in Alfreso

alberto — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:52:24 GMT

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.
They key here is for it to be easy or it would be difficult to me to convince the rest to use it.

Re: Implementig a Wiki in Alfreso

norgan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:32:11 GMT

Hi alberto,
the WIKI.amp is quite llimited and it seems the search results display HTML code only. But you could integrate the media wiki, there is a comment here somewhere, allowing to use alfresco as content store for media wiki, thus integrating it.

The other way would be to return to the roots of WikiWiki and make words in CamelCase the "Link" words.

But honestly - the only way for windows & office users to publish / share informationen, which is simpler, than a wiki, is storing word files on CIFS drives.

One last question though - Is it really too much to explain someone (who WANTS to learn) the link syntax [[target article title]] , *, **, ***, **** for indentation and =x= ==x== ===x=== for headlines ? Even my father understood that and it took him months to learn Norton Commander back in the 90ies.

Regards, Norgan

Re: Implementig a Wiki in Alfreso

alberto — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:29:29 GMT

I do agree with you.
The fact here is that I not that sure they WANT to learn. They probably think that there is no need for this kind of tools. Well, I think that the best course of action in this cases is just showing them by using. 3 of us want to try it. If they see that we work better or more easily that may join us.
Tanks a lot for your input Norgan.

Re: Implementig a Wiki in Alfreso

tcaiati — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:37:16 GMT

There is the WikiSpace module in the forge:
http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/wikispacemodule/

I've used it with v 2.0 Community Edition. It provides a basic wiki, but is not perfect.

There is also the integration with MediaWiki in the later versions of Alfresco, but I haven't personally tried this out or tested it.

Hi,

I've tried MediaWiki integration at end of february on HEAD version … withouth success.
It's still in developpement (see comments on code), but it WILL be very usefull
You can see french thread :
http://forum.alfresco-fr.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1577&p=7270
I succeded in installation with patching build.xml, I see my Mediawiki in repository, but I cannot use it

Wait alfresco development before using it

Regards,

Thomas