DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files – no database is required.

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about 1 year ago Avatar
Best all-around wiki

  by Matt Zukowski

Our organization needed a wiki system for internal I.T. documentation (runbooks, code snippets, etc.) We tried a number of other wiki systems before settling on Dokuwiki -- Confluence, MediaWiki, VQWiki... the list goes on.

Even though I try to avoid PHP apps as much as possible -- as their average quality tends to be questionable -- Dokuwiki turned out to be a perfect fit for us. It has exactly the range of features we needed (LDAP ... [More] authentication, syntax highlighting, etc.), it was super easy to set up, looks good right out of the box, and is just an all-around well engineered system.

I'd highly recommend this, especially when you want a solid all-around wiki solution that fits well in the context of a larger organization's I.T. department. [Less]

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about 1 year ago Avatar
Good wiki-engine

    by taffit

DokuWiki is one of the best wiki-engines I've tested (and, in my opinion, the best of wiki-engines running on php without database). It has a very active community, constant developement and a bunch of indispensable features.
The pros in my opinion:
- active developement with quick bug fixing- extensible by many plugins (including authentication by Active Directory or other LDAP-directories)
- helpful community
- no database ... [More] required and really easy to setup and extend.

The cons:
- You cannot modify the layout of the wiki pages easily and to all extend (although there exist some sites running dokuwiki with a beautyful layout)
- The sophisitcated plugin-system is not easily understandable by novices (although quite powerful) [Less]

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    Re: What's wrong with the latest release?

    Previous wiki releases had different layout. There were several links on the left side of the page and there were "edit this page", "discussion" and "subscribe to changes" tab links at the top. I don't see any of this in the latest release. It just has a flat page structure. Where did "subscribe to changes" and "discussion" tab links go?

    reStructuredText/Markdown style headers

    In general I like Dokuwiki's wiki formatting, but I miss using underlining for headers, rather than adding '===' before and after the text. I find it much easier to read a document when editing written this way.

    I'm sure it must be possible ... [More] , but I cannot see how to do parsing rules that go across two lines!

    To clarify what I'm after:
    An example header
    =================

    Headings can use any of the following characters: = - ` : . ' " ~ ^ _ * #

    Sub-heading
    -----------
    My document is now structured with easy to find and read headings, as the text is always left-aligned. [Less]

    Re: Neuer ACL Manager zeigt bei mir 'Keine' Rechte an

    Hast du mal versucht Rechte zuzuweisen? Wie schaut den dein /conf/acl.auth.php file aus?

    Re: manually placing directories(namespaces) or files(pagenames) issue w/ search

    The sites are automatically indexed in the background once you visit them with a browser. You could use a tool like wget to spider your website every now and then, or use this plugin [1] (I don't know however if it works).

    [1] http://wiki.splitbrain.org/plugin:searchindex

    Re: What's wrong with the latest release?

    It's the same like with any other DokuWiki release bofore, see http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:faq:addpages

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