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"There are plenty of choices to research when finding which wiki to use."

Any recommendations? I'm not really sure what a wiki is yet, so I'm looking for more detail on what one is and how it might be useful.

Thanks.

Check PmWiki.org. PmWiki is well structured and has a very active user/development community.

This is almost the best recursive link I could hope for...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Where you will find a history of the Wiki, uses of and other related information. Of course it is on wikipedia which is itself a wiki.

I'm a great believer in needs based selection of software so evaluate a few. This link will give a quick comparison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software

A very simple but effective Perl CGI wiki to try would be UseMod wiki http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl which I have used and it does the job very effectively.

Have fun...

Wiki's are with out a doubt the most pragmatic knowledge management tool I have seen to date. Having worked with the introduction of knowledge management tools and practices in a large, global IT org, I know just how much the traditional tools (document management, file sharing etc) fail to provide a solution that is really usable or, therefore, practical.

Usability and flexibility are _KEY_ to any solution. If it is easy to use, people use it. If people use it, then there is a reason for others to use it. The network effect right?

There are now a number of commercial wikis available as well - Confluence, SocialText, JotSpot etc. They tend to combine the best of all the open source tools and adds enterprise features (security, versioning etc.) and support that professional organisations often need in a collaborative system like a wiki.

From what I know, Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/confluence) is the world's most widely deployed (over 600 orgs using it) commercial wiki. The feature tour gives a nice run down of the functionality as well:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/features/

Are you talking about Confluence? I start to see this site a propaganda machine instead of acquiring real technical advise.

I have evaluated Confluence, I'm not impress

I've used several wikis over the course of several years (i.e actually used as opposed to evaluated) and confluence is by far the best.

try www.mindtouch.com

"Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server.
Access denied for user 'wikiuser'@'localhost' (using password: YES)"

LoL. That took Mindtouch quickly out of the running for me. :)