Wiki for Work

Posted on April 23, 2006 One Comment

In a bit of a surprise move last week, I got the go ahead to research and implement a wiki for our development team at the day job. Wow! Now the challenge: In an ideal world, it should be something I can install internally and… on a windows server. Urgh. That last constraint is harshing my mellow a bit. I really don’t want to do WAMP on a box just for wiki. Hoping to turn up a solid solution that can run on IIS.

Yeah, I know there are tons that can be Ruby on Rails, but surely there are more than these that’ll do IIS/SQL Server?

Openwiki Last updated March 2002
Open Wiki Next Gen. So far, after browing their wiki, I’m rather confused on what it needs. However, the Quick Start seems promising.
Perspective. Despite the grueling URL structure, seems promising.
Noodle. Access or file based data storage (ugh!)
tikiwiki WAMP
Mediawiki (ala Wikipedia) WAMP/WIMP (nice walkthroughs here)

Lots of possibilities, but none make me shiver with delight yet. Guess I’ll install a couple and see how it shakes out. And if you’re aware of any great candidates that I haven’t found yet please drop a comment!

Tags: IIS, web2.0, wiki, work