[COLUG] enterprise wiki

[Pat Collins]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:30:44 -0500, Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net> wrote :

> Is anyone on the list using an "enterprise" wiki?
> 
> One of our professors has asked about installing a wiki in his web
> space.  I'm not keen on the idea of every prof running their own wiki
> installation and maintaining their own account databases and ACL lists.
>  A single wiki installation from which I could carve off specific
> workspaces for users / groups would be ideal: I could delegate
> administrative control over the the individual workspaces, integrate
> single sign-on against our existing user directory (or any future user
> directory), and manage software updates for all users in one place.
> 
> I've looked at SocialText, which feature-wise looks to provide a lot:
>    http://www.socialtext.com/
> Their open source version requires Apache 1.3 with mod_perl and 150+
> CPAN modules.

I like perl.  I hate mod_perl.  Who needs 30MB apache processes...

>    http://www.socialtext.net/stoss/index.cgi?socialtext_open
> This does not fill me with confidence about the long-term sustainability
> of the wiki, though.
> 
> MoinMoin also looks pretty featureful:
>    http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/
> It's written in Python, a language I don't like for reasons I fail
> entirely to explain.  I've not used MoinMoin before, but several folks
> who's opinion I respect have described it as "the most annoying wiki
> I've ever used".
> 
> DekiWiki is a fork of MediaWiki:
>    http://doc.opengarden.org/DekiWiki
> I don't think it supports the kind of workspace partitioning in which
> I'm interested; but given it's rather more reasonable requirements list,
> it might be feasible to install multiple DekiWiki instances.  It doesn't
> look like single sign-on integration is as robust with this one, though.
> 
> Are there other wikis I should look at?  Any testimonials about any of
> the above?
> 

How about drupal with the organic groups modules?   If your single-signon is
LDAP based there is a plug-in to do that, but I haven't used it.

Pat