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[adler at stephenadler.com (Stephen Adler)]

I all I can say is....

    THE INTERNET HAS GONE WIKICRAZY!!!!!

my god... there are too many choices out there!!!

I want to thank everyone for taking their turn at bat with this topic.

Cheers. Steve.

Greg Rundlett wrote:
> I would recommend MediaWiki for a lot of reasons.
>
> A nice thing about Mediawiki is that it is the most popular wiki
> engine by far, meaning that other authors / contributors are more
> likely to have used the software (if your wiki is a collaboration
> engine and you actually have more than a single author :-).
>
> Another aspect to look at is how well the wiki markup (syntax) is
> supported by other software.  Are there inporters/exporters?  There is
> no current standard wiki format, but there are people working on this
> issue. Mediawiki can export xml, so you could re-use the content in
> other systems.  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Export,
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Syndication_feeds, and
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:IndyGreg/WikiFeeds
>
> In deciding which wiki is right for you, there is nothing that works
> as well as setting up the wiki and actually trying it.  In order to
> focus your short list of systems to try compare and think about
> features at http://www.wikimatrix.org/
>
> One area that they do not cover at wikimatrix is the semantic web, and
> here there is a project that extends mediawiki to enable semantic
> markup
> http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_Web_overview
>
>


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