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.<br><br>Also, they do have a Word importer. But it's implemented as a macro within Word itself rather than as a gateway.
<br><br>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?
<br><br>B.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 12, 2007 9:47 AM, Austin Che <<a href="mailto:austin@csail.mit.edu">austin@csail.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br> I think it's interesting to see how MIT is handling the wiki<br> problem. They use Confluence<br> <a href="http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/" target="_blank">http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/
</a> which is an<br> enterprise wiki. I don't know what advantages it has over<br> mediawiki. But it appears to come with wysiwig editing by default<br> and it seems to handle many wikis pretty well.<br><br> Here's the list of MIT wikis
<br> <a href="https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/dashboard.action" target="_blank">https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/dashboard.action</a><br> You can see a list of recent changes across all wikis.<br><br> I've only quickly looked through to see some of the features it
<br> has. It handles things like permissions and other things like<br> that. You can tag pages. It also can export any page as either PDF<br> or word and the exported page really looks pretty! The wiki syntax<br>
is similar to mediawiki's with some noticeable differences with<br> headings.<br><br> Anyway, perhaps it's cheaper to buy a commercial wiki solution<br> that provides many of the features we want rather than
<br> implementing it all in mediawiki. I think it's a one-time(?) $4000<br> fee for unlimited users<br><br>> Effective immediately, IS&T will launch an enterprise wiki service for<br>> MIT using the Confluence technology that we have been using for our
<br>> internal wikis. This service will be announced to the community via<br>> email, in Digitalk and in the IS&T newsletter.<br>><br>> For those who are unfamiliar with wikis, they are web-based<br>> collaboration sites whose content can be edited by anyone who has
<br>> permission. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at <a href="http://wikipedia.org" target="_blank">wikipedia.org</a>, is the<br>> largest and most famous example of a wiki.<br>><br>> The MIT Wiki Service offers simplified page editing and basic
<br>> versioning of page content and attachments. Supplemental features,<br>> like the ability to pull in Google Maps and to post informal surveys<br>> are also available. Integrated with MIT web certificates, Moira group
<br>> management, and Stellar class lists, the service features a wide range<br>> of permission options, including access for non-MIT users. The Wiki<br>> Service is also piloting the MIT Touchstone single sign on service.
<br>><br>> IS&T, the iLabs Project, MIT Press, and several courses are already<br>> using the service.<br>><br>> Getting Started:<br>><br>> For details about the service, go to<br>> <a href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/webpublishing/wiki" target="_blank">
web.mit.edu/ist/topics/webpublishing/wiki</a><br>> <<a href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/webpublishing/wiki" target="_blank">http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/webpublishing/wiki</a>><br>><br>> IS&T has several wiki pages. To see what's on the current IS&T staff
<br>> wiki space go to <a href="https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/ISTSTAFF/Home" target="_blank">https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/ISTSTAFF/Home</a><br>><br>> A wiki space request form is available at
<br>> <a href="https://wikis.mit.edu/request/wiki/" target="_blank">https://wikis.mit.edu/request/wiki/</a><br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Austin Che <<a href="mailto:austin@csail.mit.edu">austin@csail.mit.edu
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