IT Knowledgebase

BloomerzUK · 18 Apr 2012 at 11:27

Hi Guys,

I'm after an OpenSource piece of software that allows me to create an IT knowledgebase of sorts. It will be strictly internal and not customer facing. I've had a search, but I can't find anything conclusive.

Specs, if possible:

- User management
- Easily searchable
- Easy to add/edit items
- etc

If you need any other info, let me know.

Cheers.

aln · 18 Apr 2012 at 11:40

Is there a reason you don't want to use mediawiki?

BloomerzUK · 18 Apr 2012 at 11:51

That was the whole question - I didn't know MediaWIKI before you mentioned it.

It does look very much like WikiPedia which I okay I suppose. Thanks for the suggestion.

Any others people?

Djwayne · 18 Apr 2012 at 12:14

Take a look at confluence its not open source but depending on how many users you want its cheap

Illusion · 19 Apr 2012 at 20:27

Confluence is better than mediawiki IMO. They are the two that came to mind when reading your post though.

Mediawiki is ok I just always found the search function to be rather lacklustre.

BloomerzUK · 19 Apr 2012 at 20:46

It certainly looks better than MediaWiki. Shame about the cost.

Thanks for the heads up guys.

Illusion · 20 Apr 2012 at 07:12

It looks like you can skin mediawiki have you looked at the screenshots on their website? If the looks bother you maybe that would help out a bit

Deleted member 77746 · 20 Apr 2012 at 12:00

Illusion said:
It looks like you can skin mediawiki have you looked at the screenshots on their website? If the looks bother you maybe that would help out a bit

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Gallery_of_user_styles#GoMediaWiki_skin

Shure · 20 Apr 2012 at 13:22

dokuwiki is also an alternative to mediawiki: dokuwiki

Spooter · 20 Apr 2012 at 14:59

SharePoint Foundation if your running it on a Windows 2008 server.

SharePoint Foundation is free if you have the OS. You can create a custom list, which searchable and users can subscribe to it so if new entry is added they get an email...

Just one idea.

aln · 20 Apr 2012 at 15:59

Illusion said:
Confluence is better than mediawiki IMO. They are the two that came to mind when reading your post though.

Mediawiki is ok I just always found the search function to be rather lacklustre.

This is pretty much the only thing I consider wrong about mediawiki. It can be fairly well sorted by using groups, but if you're adding random articles, good luck ever finding them again.

ChrisB · 20 Apr 2012 at 19:15

aln said:
This is pretty much the only thing I consider wrong about mediawiki. It can be fairly well sorted by using groups, but if you're adding random articles, good luck ever finding them again.

Search with "All" radio button selected.

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:49

Ignore