Features / Usability

Hi Spenser, all

I worked with Twiki ten years ago (the free version) in my previous work, and here I want to use Tiki for doing exactly the same as you want. So I'll share here my experience so far. Maybe we could exchange some more tips.

I did not eliminate Twiki because of the cost (you can actually get it for free), but because it was quite limited and presumably quite slow (PERL).

I managed easily to install tiki and integrate it with our Active Directory, so each new user can use its Windows user ID and password. Now I'm a bit more annoyed, as the documentation on how to use trackers, galleries etc are quite cryptic. So I'd suggest that you point your browser to Rick Sapir's excellent Tiki for dummies (I mean smarties) online book.

Regarding the staff book, indeed I'm pretty sure that tracker is the right tool for that, but I got no clue how to create one correctly. I also want to transfer (part of) a mediawiki powered site of about 1000 pages, and there as well I'm hesitating on the best way to do that (how to get the images, what to do with categories, etc.)

For your "newsletter" and CEO stuff, I think that you should better use the tiki features to do that. It is easy to limit rights to one group, so no one will mess with that.

Before choosing Tiki, I looked extensively at many wikies, including pmwiki, mediawiki and xwiki (on wikimatrix, a fabulous tool). I think tiki is the most feature rich and has a very good community to support it. My site also has to be multilingual, and tiki is probably unique there. I also tried bitweaver (a tiki fork, more modular), but I dropped it as the modularity ended up with concurrent modules for the same functionality ...

The downside is that the documentation is much too dense and cryptic, made by and for the developpers. So I'm a bit disappointed by the steep learning curve as an admin.