Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 15, 2008
I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 2, 2009
But I have to admit that this seems to me a bit too much like a gateway drug - get them hooked on free, then move them slowly but surely to much more expensive systems. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. Did they contribute anything back to the MediaWiki community?
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 26, 2007
I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. I didn’t get so far into coding the markup, but I had decided that I’d follow MediaWiki’s syntax, since it was the most popular wiki software. And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 30, 2007
And further, there is an amazing integration of Elgg with Mediawiki. Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. I wish I had an excuse to install and test it – but it really requires a purpose for bringing community together.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 18, 2007
The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents. Without getting into Google’s plan for world domination, what would help there is to see more universal adoption of OpenID[2]. [0] 0] [link] [1] Three offices, no sys-admin.
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