Managing Sharing of a Knowledge Database

Posted by Garland Coulson
Nov 2, 2013 at 05:22 PM

Thanks Dr.Andus

Dr Andus wrote:
Garland Coulson wrote:
>>I am trying to decide what system to create it in.
> >One question is whether you want to host the site yourself or not.

I have my own hosting so hosting it myself is not a problem.

>If yes, you could use an HTML editor, desktop wiki, or Wordpress.org.

I do a lot of sites for clients in Wordpress and love it. It is a possible solution and I know of good membership plugins I could use to control access. But overall, it just doesn’t seem as intuitive as a wiki or Evernote notebook.

>Some wiki farms (some of which have WYSIWYG):
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_farms

Thanks, I will have a look at this.

>>I should mention that I do not use markdown, I prefer WSYWIG so
>>availability of WSYWIG is important.
>>I was looking at https://www.dokuwiki.org/ and was wondering if it
>might
>>do the trick.
> >DokuWiki does seem to require markup.
>https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:syntax

DokuWiki does have a plugin extension that allows WSYWIG. I have asked my designer to install it on a test directory on my site so I can play with it to see what I think.

Thanks again for your help. This is a big decision for me as this is intended to hold a huge database of knowledge over time and it would be frustrating to build the knowledge base for a couple of years and then find I needed to change.

Garland