OT: knowledgebase application

Jamie Bohr jamiebohr at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 18:11:40 UTC 2006


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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 06:23, 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.
>
> 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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Jamie Bohr
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