[cdwg] New Wiki for OpenSFS

[Justin Miller]

Confluence wiki is definitely worth considering.

http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/overview/team-collaboration-software

Atlassian provides licenses to their stable of products for open source
projects, I'd wager OpenSFS would qualify for that.

http://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request

- Justin

On 11/2/12 1:52 PM, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
> Ok.  I too would be in favor of a switch to MediaWiki.  We had it set up
> before, and in fact wiki.opensfs.org still goes to an un-configured
> MediaWiki instance.
> 
> I am inclined to pursue getting the MediaWiki instance upgraded and
> configured the way we want.
> 
> The only complaint that I am aware of for MediaWiki is that folks were
> unable to upload files.  But of course MediaWiki DOES support that, it
> is just (according to the FAQ) disabled by default.  So I'll look into
> where it is hosted, what controls we have, who current has the
> passwords, etc.
> 
> If anyone has any other requirements or suggestions for a better wiki
> engine, please speak up promptly.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 11/02/2012 07:23 AM, Nathan Rutman wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 1, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Christopher J. Morrone
>> <morrone2 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> Could you please elaborate?  Our you referring to content on the
>>> wiki, or the actual wiki software?
>>>
>>> If it is the latter, what are the problems?  You guys at Xyratex are
>>> pretty much the only people that I know of using the foswiki thing
>>> that was set up.  Are you having problems with it?  What are the
>>> problems?
>> The actual wiki software.  The half-gui interface, the unusual
>> formatting delimiters.  No permissions to do anything. The
>> difficulties adding content are a barrier to improving this.
>> MediaWiki just seems easier.
>>
>>>
>>> On 11/01/2012 10:06 AM, Nathan Rutman wrote:
>>>> My 2 cents: all I really care about is a working Wiki ASAP...
>>>
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>>
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