What Wiki or other webserver to use for intranet site?
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Well @texkonc told me that his MediaWiki install was slow as dirt (the one I decided to try first) so I figure I'll ask the community what they use?
I need the site mainly for hosting internal process documents, Announcements, Employee Handbook, etc.
Suggestions?
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@Dashrender Have you look at Sharepoint on Office365?
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Here is another vote for SharePoint. This has become invaluable for us to keep client notes, announcements and just general information.
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@ajstringham We aren't looking at moving to O365 at this time. Perhaps during the next hardware refresh (OK, most likely during the next hardware refresh) we'll go that direction.
Management has the shock of replacing 40 PCs and upping our Office licenses (new ones will be either O365 E3 or Office ProPlus 365). The idea of approaching them for $2k/month forever to move now would probably get me lynched.
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@dashrender You get Office for users and the web app versions with the E3. Lync too. Just a thought.
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You can move to that now even if you only use it for just SharePoint.
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We already have 80+ Office Pro Plus with SA VL and Exchange with SA. In a thread on that other board I was asking if any of the O365 plans include an Onsite Exchange license, because I need to up my count for both Office and Exchange. Considering O365 version of Office allows 5 devices per user, I'll move my physicians to the new O365 licenses, covering the multiple devices they each use but I'll still need Exchange CALs for the rest.
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@Minion-Queen said:
You can move to that now even if you only use it for just SharePoint.
$400 a month for something that I'll only access in house (and frankly I don't believe it will really get much use - but management wants it) I'm sure I can find a free or nearly free linux solution for this. Which is why I tried the Turnkey MediaWiki first (I'm a linux NOOB).
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MediaWiki is the defacto choice here. Never had a speed issue. It's fast and easy to manage. If MySQL is a concern the pmWiki is good and only uses the file system.
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@scottalanmiller said:
MediaWiki is the defacto choice here. Never had a speed issue. It's fast and easy to manage. If MySQL is a concern the pmWiki is good and only uses the file system.
Cool I'll probably stick with it for now.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
MediaWiki is the defacto choice here. Never had a speed issue. It's fast and easy to manage. If MySQL is a concern the pmWiki is good and only uses the file system.
Cool I'll probably stick with it for now.
I would.
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I tried to setup Sharpoint Foundations 2013 and then I found out it doesn't work with 2012 R2. I had a sad.
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You could do Sharepoint Foundation 2013, but that may be overkill in terms of what you want to do and managing it moving forward. I don't think I would use it just for a wiki.
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So now more than a year later, what did you end up doing? You still running MediaWiki?
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Drupal. I built a section where we can track issues with certain products we make, a section for maintenance logs, a section for safety violations and accidents, a section for QC, and some misc stuff like a visitors section where people sign in but just fill out the form and sign with their finger instead of using a paper log. It also has company documents and forms that can be printed off if needed.
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I had a Mediawiki for about 6 months, but the formatting on wikis is just horrible. It's also aesthetically displeasing.
I need to look into other options, but it hasn't been a priority.
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We have a couple of sharepoint sites, It really doesn't get a ton of use though.
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@Dashrender said:
I had a Mediawiki for about 6 months, but the formatting on wikis is just horrible. It's also aesthetically displeasing.
I need to look into other options, but it hasn't been a priority.
The problem is, easy to edit and aesthetically pleasing rarely go together. There really aren't good tools for making something that is easy for quick documentation that then looks really nice too. Great formatting takes effort.
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@Jason said:
We have a couple of sharepoint sites, It really doesn't get a ton of use though.
I feel that we get far less use when it looks nice because it is then harder to use. It's the easier, uglier tools that seem to get the love the most.
