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I am a frenchie working in the USA as "Lead Business Analyst" which means I am interfacing between the IT tekkies and the Business Communities.
My www.airbusnorthamerica.com company uses eRoom through the portals for collaboration and it is an efficient tool. Yet I think we have plenty of space to improve the collaborative work using Wikis.
So I am decided to have a pilot pretty soon available to demonstrate the added value of this concept.
I have been experiencing dozens of open source WikiClones and only a few finally retained my attention.
Among these, Wikka Wiki comes on top.
As I do not want to compete with other tools available in my company, more powerful solutions like TikiWiki are out.
I also like MediaWiki but Wikka is quicker and still has some more interseting features.
Nothing being perfect, I am trying to figure out how to provide a few missing functionalities:
- Sharing calendars (see JwCalendarWithPageCreation),
- Organizing polls,
- Task lists (I like Mike's one: GmBowenWikkaAsPIM) , Issue lists... through an excel like input design (having the possibility to design databases and design the user interface for them?),
- Defining simple ad-hoc workflows,
- Reusing templates for easy creation of similar WikiPages (see CloneHandler),
- Managing attachments to the WikiPages (see FilesManagementSolution),
- Having a "Store and continue" button when editing so that you can save and continue to edit,
- Having a "Search & Replace" function in the editor,
- Having a Find and Replace function to replace things in the body of the Wiki Pages (could help to rename pages as well),
- Having WikiNames being displayed as Wiki Names (better idea at AutoReplace),
- Having the possibility to design database with a user interface,
- Having the capability to check who is currently connected to the Wiki,
- Managing groups of users through the ACLs (proposal at ACLsWithUserGroups),
- Having the possibility to use smileys (Uniwakka like),
- Having the possibility for the page owner to delete it (not only the admin),
- having the possibility to see who is on line using the Wiki (there is a {{users}} action at http://www.euroburners.org/wikka/UsersOnline that looks interesting: anybody knows how it is build?)
I have usersonline.php and currentusers.php actions which are derived from an action in costal martignier's comawiki software (see my example here ). Costal has (re)distribution restrictions etc. on his products (despite the GPL base from which his wiki derives, he has sections of "original" code....including that for users online) which is why I haven't posted those two actions here. You might try downloading comawiki (which is "free" for non-commercial purposes) and see if you can tweak his action for your own non-commercial interests (don't forget to look at the database table which is needed. --GmBowen
- Having the users defining their own menu: this is available from WikkaMenus but I am using an alternate solution at UserMenus
- Lots of good ideas from www.jotspot.com JotSpot a commercial Wiki: email to a WikiPage, WikiForms...
- ...
Anyway, I want to salute the great work done so far :-))
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