ONLamp: Which Open Source Wiki Works For You? | Linux Today

ONLamp: Which Open Source Wiki Works For You?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 8, 2004

“A Wiki is a web site that can be edited directly by people
browsing it. That way, they can add new content, correct errors or
inaccuracies, and add their own comments, among other things. Since
the debut of the original Wiki Wiki Web, many publicly available,
usually open source, Wiki implementations have appeared, enabling
webmasters to set up their own Wikis on their sites. These Wiki
implementations vary in their features, ease of installation,
syntax, and semantics.

“The purpose of this article is to give an overview of several
popular Wiki implementations and see how they fare…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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