[OWW-SC] Fwd: MIT Wiki Service Release Announcement

[Mackenzie Cowell]

I was talking with Austin about this and perhaps step 0 is to find out  
who / what committee surveyed the choices of wiki platforms for IS&T,  
explain OWW's mission & needs, and find out why they chose Confluence  
and what other platforms they were interested and which might be a  
good fit for OWW.

So at IS&T who is the person to talk to?

mac


On Dec 12, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Bill F wrote:

> I think it's a good idea to consider. The one feature that  
> Confluence seems to lack is an automated mediawiki importer. I may  
> have missed it but I didn't see one.
>
> Also, they  do have a Word importer. But it's implemented as a macro  
> within Word itself rather than as a gateway.
>
> So let's say we found there was a way to import and we could use it.  
> How would we go about surfacing this to the board and bringing it up  
> for consideration? I'm talking of the requirements rather than the  
> technical issues. How can we state what a $4k investment in SW and a  
> continuing $600 (15%) maintenance contract would provide?
>
> B.
>
>
> On Dec 12, 2007 9:47 AM, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>    I think it's interesting to see how MIT is handling the wiki
>    problem. They use Confluence
>    http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ which is an
>    enterprise wiki. I don't know what advantages it has over
>    mediawiki. But it appears to come with wysiwig editing by default
>    and it seems to handle many wikis pretty well.
>
>    Here's the list of MIT wikis
>    https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/dashboard.action
>    You can see a list of recent changes across all wikis.
>
>    I've only quickly looked through to see some of the features it
>    has. It handles things like permissions and other things like
>    that. You can tag pages. It also can export any page as either PDF
>    or word and the exported page really looks pretty! The wiki syntax
>    is similar to mediawiki's with some noticeable differences with
>    headings.
>
>    Anyway, perhaps it's cheaper to buy a commercial wiki solution
>    that provides many of the features we want rather than
>    implementing it all in mediawiki. I think it's a one-time(?) $4000
>    fee for unlimited users
>
> > Effective immediately, IS&T will launch an enterprise wiki service  
> for
> > MIT using the Confluence technology that we have been using for our
> > internal wikis. This service will be announced to the community via
> > email, in Digitalk and in the IS&T newsletter.
> >
> > For those who are unfamiliar with wikis, they are web-based
> > collaboration sites whose content can be edited by anyone who has
> > permission. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at wikipedia.org, is  
> the
> > largest and most famous example of a wiki.
> >
> > The MIT Wiki Service offers simplified page editing and basic
> > versioning of page content and attachments. Supplemental features,
> > like the ability to pull in Google Maps and to post informal surveys
> > are also available. Integrated with MIT web certificates, Moira  
> group
> > management, and Stellar class lists, the service features a wide  
> range
> > of permission options, including access for non-MIT users. The Wiki
> > Service is also piloting the MIT Touchstone single sign on service.
> >
> > IS&T, the iLabs Project, MIT Press, and several courses are already
> > using the service.
> >
> > Getting Started:
> >
> > For details about the service, go to
> > web.mit.edu/ist/topics/webpublishing/wiki
> > <http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/webpublishing/wiki>
> >
> > IS&T has several wiki pages. To see what's on the current IS&T staff
> > wiki space go to https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/ISTSTAFF/Home
> >
> > A wiki space request form is available at
> > https://wikis.mit.edu/request/wiki/
>
> --
> Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu >          (617)253-5899
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