I need to make a wiki

starfighter · 1 Mar 2010 at 22:38

I need to make a wiki for my website, I really have no idea what I am doing at all but I know the server is Linux so here I am.

What do you recommend? Simple is good.

tntcoder · 1 Mar 2010 at 22:48

I'm no expert with wikis, but there are several good choices using PHP & MySQL for Linux.

MediaWiki is supposed to be nice and simple: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Main_Page it has decent docs and shouldn't be too hard to configure

DJDaz · 2 Mar 2010 at 08:39

mediawiki is the same script wikipedia use, i've set it up on my local webserver to play around with, is the better one of the 3 i tried (the other 2 being phpwiki and tikiwiki

starfighter · 2 Mar 2010 at 09:25

Thanks guys, will have a look at this mediawiki.

slylittlefox · 2 Mar 2010 at 11:53

We use Foswiki in work, tis good, and I find it easier to use than Mediawiki

Minto · 3 Mar 2010 at 17:40

I'm a teacher, and I've had 35 13 year olds using mediawiki without problems so it can't be that hard. They had about 10 mins of instructions while they logged on and then just jumped straight in. If they can then you can!

(and setup was a simple upload and script jobby)

SMN · 8 Mar 2010 at 12:33

We use MediaWiki in work (we have around 15!).

randal · 8 Mar 2010 at 12:38

I've used MediaWiki in the past, it's nice and easy to setup. However we use JSPWiki at work for our documentation repository and I can't fault it, has some really nice javascript which throws open dynamic link tables as you're crafting your page, type-ahead that sort of thing.

Highly recommend evaluating the two before you deploy it.