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  • From: Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp AT pobox.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] wiki software
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:19:35 +1000

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




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