Wikis are great not only to co-author documents, but also to implement private or public knowledge bases. For CommunitySense, I wanted to install a number of wikis. Two issues arose: which wiki and to have it hosted somewhere else or host it myself?
The quest for the right wiki took me quite a while. A good starting point for comparing the features of the many wikis around is the WikiMatrix. I tried quite a few of the wikis listed, but none of them served all the purposes I intend to use the range of wikis for (co-authoring, file management, personal information management, etc). One option would have been to use different wikis for different purposes, but the learning curves and maddening variations in syntax caused me to make the principled decision to focus on one wiki only and master it well. … Read more...