Wiki Software

[Disturbedguy]

Hello Hexus!

Right well I have been asked by my boss to find some wiki software that is 1) Free and 2) usable offline, without the need to be uploaded to a server. The reason for this is we are planning on building a knowledge base for the Service Desk I work on, however the company won't provide us with even a little bit of server/ hosting space.

I have noticed that some wiki software out there does allow offline using/ working by simply making the database available offline.

So does anyone use? or has anyone used? any free, decent wiki software.

Cheers in advance,
DG

[Funkstar]

You don't need to have it on the internet if it is just an internal knowledge base, but host it on a server within your own network.

Most Wiki software is free, at least the ones I've used are. MediaWiki is popular and has lots of extensions.

[Disturbedguy]

Cheers Funkstar.

Thats the thing, they dont want to give us server space on the network, we have to prove we need it.

[r3morse]

I'm sure that there are sites that provide free wiki hosting, or I've heard a lot about PBworks: http://pbworks.com/, but they cost money.

[Raz316]

Disturbed: Are you able to host it on your own machine at work? (not ideal I know, but people could be informed they need to go to http://192.168.x.x/ or http://DisturbedGuy/ for the wiki?)

If so, get yourself Xampp( http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html ), make sure you run http://localhost/security/ before going live. Then get Dokuwiki ( http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki ) .

If not, maybe Tiddly Backpack is something you could distribute to users? ( http://www.tiddlybackpack.com/ ). I found it by searching for 'portable wiki'. By the looks of the tour video it runs locally without an actual webserver, which is nice. EDIT: I've given it a go and it works in firefox and ie8 once you confirm the local security prompt, but I guess your users won't have this issue as they will only be reading it.

[david@scan]

XAMPP is excellent - would also suggest looking at TikiWiki as well - which is a good alternative to MediaWiki .