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Wikis in Plain English
- Wikis in Plain English doowikis video
Web hosting including WIKI hosting
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Wikidot
Pro Lite account For personal websites, blogs, community sites, and small private workgroups. Create up to 5 sites and use up to 15 GB of storage for your files, invite your friends and coworkers. Create private sites with up to 10 members each. Price: €49.90 for 12 months.
Each Wiki Site obtains a web address in a dedicated wikidot.com subdomain. However, it is possible to use an external domain to reach this Site. If you enable this feature, this Site will be available via both domains, i.e. eprj.wikidot.com and the new domain. You can also set up to 3 "301 redirects". This means that if these domains are handled by the Wikidot.com servers your visitors will be redirected to the main domain for the Site. This is useful, for example, to handle domains without the "www." prefix. Note: this is a cool feature and it's totally free!
In order for the domain mapping to work you should also do a few things: You should own (or have administrative access to) the domain you want to use, You should point your nameservers (via "control panel" if your provider gives you one - look for advanced DNS settings - or by any other means) to resolve your domain to Wikidot.com servers. This should be done by setting a CNAME record to "www.wikidot.com" value. Very often one has to wait (depends on your provider or DNS settings) for the changes to propagate over the internet. Exactly the same procedure should be applied for the redirected domains (URLs) to be handled by Wikidot.com servers. Sometimes you might be forced to provide the IP address of the Wikidot.com server. In such a case use 74.86.234.146. If you have enabled Use the custom domain as the only domain option, all requests to eprj.wikidot.com will be automatically redirected to your custom domain.
- Best hosted wiki solution for private wikis? stackoverflow
I previously asked about how people organize their online resources and researched data, where one of the suggested tools was using a private wiki.
I want to try this out and thus I am looking for a hosted wiki where I can store my thoughts, ideas and project documentation.
My requirements are:
Must be hosted by a third party.
Must be free or cheap.
Must allow private wikis.
Must provide some way to back up my data, ideally with complete revision history.
Should have a good wiki implementation which is easy to edit, easy to organize and with adequate searching capabilities.
Would be a bonus if the wiki implementation is a standard, so I can migrate my data to another site or a self-hosted version in the future.
It would also be useful if the host also provided public wikis (with access control) and mapping of my own domain name for the wiki. This is not a requirement for my private wikis, but if they provided it I might be able to use the same host for public wikis on my public or open source projects.
Does it absolutely have to be hosted? If you're able to get a small bit of webspace I'd highly recommend Dokuwiki. It's database-independant (text files) which may put you off but I'm a huge fan of it.
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Agreed, and looks like this site offers hosting: maiahost.com/cms/DokuWiki_Hosting.html – Turnkey Sep 27 '08 at 13:10
Yes, it has to be hosted. The simple reason for this is that I'm to lazy to maintain my own server. The only exception would be if I could "plug" it directly into my existing web host, which provides PHP and SQL—I think (it's been years since I did anything on that host). – Anders Sandvig Sep 27 '08 at 17:23
Actually, a text file-based implementation might be a good idea, since I can store the site backups in my Subversion repository, and hopefully get a somewhat meaningful revision history. – Anders Sandvig Sep 27 '08 at 17:24
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I've used PBWiki, SocialText, WetPaint, and Google Sites. From my evaluation, these are the 4 best sites that provide free, hosted, private wikis. (I also had the additional requirement of being able to allow a couple other people access to the private wiki.) I've used PBWiki more than the others as I've found it to have the best combination of functionality and ease-of-use. SocialText has an open source version of their software, so it would probably be the easiest way to convert to a self-hosted solution. It also has a nice feature that lets you save local copies of the pages and sync them back to the hosted site. Google Sites is the most basic of the three. WetPaint displays Google ads on its free sites.
With your requirement for backup, PBWiki may be best. It has a quick, one-click way to locally backup all pages with either the current versions or all version history. I haven't seen anything like this in the others. WetPaint does have a one-click backup, but it is just the current version of the pages. In either case, the backups are formatted as html pages.
I believe you can use your own domain name with all of these, but Google Sites (with Google Apps) is the only one where you can do it for free.
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PbWiki is worth a look. Has free and private wikis.
It doesn't have code highlight. Or at least I wasn't able to find it. – Robert Smith Nov 9 '08 at 17:07
and the editor is wysiwyg – Chris S Mar 31 '09 at 15:34
I've been an advocate for MindTouch ever since my company implemented their knowledge base earlier this year (we're running MindTouch TCS). Some of the features we're using heavily include social logins, content scoring and curation analytics.
All of the bullets that you touch on above were requirements for our knowledge base too. We needed something that was cloud-based, can be completely or partially made private/public, complete revision history (even in attachments), WYSIWYG editing experience, maintained hierarchies and we needed XML-portability. A really cool thing with MindTouch is that every page is essentially an XML service, that can be exported easily to other applications or presentation layers.
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Google Sites ties into the Google Apps for your domain services which are free and you can use on top of your top. You can pay to get extra features with their e-mail hosting, an SLA, support and such like - $50 per user per year.
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Hmm.,. For some reason I feel somewhat reluctant to handing over even more of my personal data to Google. – Anders Sandvig Sep 27 '08 at 9:52
I agree with Anders Andvig. But that's a very European concern. ;))) – Till Sep 27 '08 at 14:49
I am currently experimenting with wikidot.com, which meet most of my requiremtns, but they don't provide backups with revision history.
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wikidot is very good software, and they got me going by promising never to put advertisements, and then after I put alot of work in some sites they broke that promise. Hard to trust them after that. What if they all of a sudden decide a free user cannot have private wikis... On top of that, the software is hard to host yourself due to its many dependencies and their syntax is not standard, so if you decide to migrate your sites from them it is a bit of a pain. – ufotds Jun 24 '10 at 18:41
I like to be able to add some additional functionality to Wiki and therefore I prefer C# implementationt. I used to use FlexWiki but it seems to be kind of silent these days and it is missing some of the features that I like (capability to generate table of contents for example).
These days I use ScrewTurn wiki and I really like it. They have a very clear extension/plug-in framework so that you can easily add your own functionality. Through these plug-ins you can get database repository (MSSQL), statistics, etc.
Eventhough I use my own Wiki hosting (so that I have more control), there is also hosted possibility at ScrewTurn wiki hosting link.
You can sign up for shared hosting at dreamhost. They have a one click install of MediaWiki, which is the same wiki engine used by Wikipedia. It's only $10 a month, and useful for so many other things. I would recommend every developer have their own shared hosting space. May be more expensive then just a straight wiki service, but infintely more useful, and everything will be in one place. I have a wiki on my account and it works great. Just put it in a password protected (using .htaccess) folder and you can have your own private wiki.
I think they do daily or weekly backups of your databases automatically. You would just have to set up a way to automatically download them. You could probably set up a cron job on their site to send the backups to another location automatically.
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Just have a look here: Wikipedia
I would suggest Wikia, but I don't know if they allow private-only wikis. It's based on Mediawiki.
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I already had a look at the wiki farm comparison on Wikipedia, but that list doesn't really tell you which hosts are any good and which are not. I would rather hear from people who actually have personal experience with the various hosts, their reliability and their features. – Anders Sandvig Sep 27 '08 at 17:26
I suggest that you take a look at dooWikis which meets all but one of your requirements. It offers a hosted solution which can either be used as a standalone wiki or can be embedded into your own site without any third-party branding.
What's A dooWiki? dooWikis are HTML content blocks that can be embedded into any web page enabling users to simply double-click on them whenever changes need to be made. dooWikis.com also lets you add wiki capabilities to your website without additional server software or redirecting users to a third-party wiki site. To see a real-world example, take a look at this website which runs entirely on dooWikis. Just double-click the announcement in the upper-right to see one in action.
- ScrewTurn Wiki is based on Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 and runs on Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008.
