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[Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp AT pobox.com>]

Rowland Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of trying to find some modern wiki software for my  
> software engineering team.  We have an ancient version of JSPWiki that  
> pretty much sucks.  Any tips on the latest and greatest in wiki-ware?   
> One feature I would really like to have is a good API that will let me  
> create some scripts to auto-publish pages/content to the system.

We use Atlassian Confluence ( 
http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ ) at my office (800-person 
company) and have been very pleased.  It started out as a wiki for 
software engineering - and is still primarily that - but has gotten 
adoption across the company.  We went from 5 spaces to 10 to about 50 
now for various departments and teams (and the majority are edited 
daily).  The basic markup syntax is easy, the WYSIWYG editor works well 
(non-technical users never have to worry about markup), and there are 
loads of powerful plugins for advanced features and formatting.

Confluence definitely has an API for auto-publishing of content - I know 
our developers are using this to report nightly build results/statistics 
- but I don't know how easy it is to use.  You can also program your own 
modules easily enough, such as to pull custom content from other sources.

I don't think Confluence is particularly expensive either, but it's 
definitely not free software.  However, Atlassian does nod to the 
free/open source movement by participating actively including making 
their issue-tracking software, JIRA, available for open source projects 
for free (beer).  Confluence integrates well with JIRA as well as their 
other products.

--Jeremy