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Whick Wiki software? Or something else?

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Greg04

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OK, here's the deal - I am one of about 75 attorneys working in a large govt office. Now, we no single database of our document libraries - we have a central server, but no "central brain"...ok lawyer jokes aside, I'll unpack that...

Say Lawyer X wants to know if someone has done a motion or brief on topic X, there's no way for us to do that other than doing raw word searches. Not efficient. Or very productive.

I was hoping to take the combined knowledge of the attorneys (again...be gentle with the jokes) and their docs in wiki format and thus make the combined knowledge actually useful and accessible. (No reinventing the wheel every single damned time)

We don't even need the docs to be searchable, we just need links to them and perhaps a few pages of primer text for each topic - e.g., "the current law on slip and falls is..."

We tackle the same issues over and over again, and its a govt office, so we don't have a huge budget for fancy software, but a simple wiki would do wonders.

We all work in word format, but even plain text would be fine. We also need to be able to access pics etc.

Any idea which software solution would be best and easiest to maintain?

Oh...it'll be on an intranet.
 
We are using mediawiki at work for our IT department.

If you dont need access control or Active Directory connection ( though I think you can get it as an addon ), if you need that then there is another wiki out there which is more designed for companies, dont remember the name.

The reason I picked mediawiki for work is simply for security, I know its a platform that will probably never die in development since wikipedia uses it. Other wikies are not as stable since there are soooo many out there.

If you want something small and personal then tiddly wiki is awsome 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Czar
We are using mediawiki at work for our IT department.

If you dont need access control or Active Directory connection ( though I think you can get it as an addon ), if you need that then there is another wiki out there which is more designed for companies, dont remember the name.

The reason I picked mediawiki for work is simply for security, I know its a platform that will probably never die in development since wikipedia uses it. Other wikies are not as stable since there are soooo many out there.

If you want something small and personal then tiddly wiki is awsome 🙂
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Thanks, just downloaded mediawiki...now for the fun part, installation and learning...
 
Well if you guys already have a lot of files made of Word, Excel, etc.. Have you considered Microsot Groove / Info Path?
 
Originally posted by: lopri
Well if you guys already have a lot of files made of Word, Excel, etc.. Have you considered Microsot Groove / Info Path?
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Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look,
 
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