Wiki services and engines. Wiki-Tiki-Tavi... A short overview of various wiki engines

Corporate wiki system with open source. Allows you to organize workspaces for collaboration, file storage, discussions, blogs. It has excellent integration capabilities and more than 100 plugins. Well compatible with MS Office

Service for creating public and intranet sites. Allows you to create pages various formats: text, list, discussions, files. You can insert multimedia content into pages, as well as widgets (for example, documents or a calendar).

Wiki with a very convenient (and no less powerful than word processor) WYSIWYG editor, tools for version control, page organization, search and collaboration. You can create multiple sections

Free online service to create and structure articles and collaborate at the same time.

Foswiki is a free wiki engine for corporate use, written in Perl. The main difference from most other engines is the ability to structure information into sections (“Webs”, “webs”), and set access rules for each section.

Service for creating your own knowledge base + built-in sales script designer. You can add original articles, download articles from external sites, tag content, group by category, manage access for company employees

Business wikis with advanced security and access controls. Good editor, version control, organization using folders and tags. Convenient to use as file storage. Contains a built-in messenger and audio communication. Allows collaborative editing of pages in real time. There are several industry editions.

The idea has long been around to make a small dictionary of terms that are used among webmasters. Various abbreviations, abbreviations, terms - everything that is somehow related to the topic of the blog.

Surely there are such dictionaries, but I haven’t come across them, and I didn’t specifically look for them. I saw pages on several blogs where very brief descriptions some terms, but it cannot be called a dictionary. Yes, and I want my own dictionary so I can refer to myself.)

I wanted to do it on WordPress standard means, no additions. Select a category for the dictionary and create a separate post for each term, but then I changed my mind; the idea didn’t seem very good to me.

One day, I returned to the idea of making a dictionary of SEO terms. I didn’t think for a long time, I decided to use the wiki engine. I had never come across it before, so I started looking.

A detailed description of the engine installation process is described in the manual. Everything is well described, I don’t see any point in reprinting it.

After successful installation, you will see the following message:

It says that the script has been successfully installed and you need to move the LocalSettings.php file from the config folder to the root directory, and also set the file to security-compliant rights so that no one can overwrite this file. I don't know much about rights. The default permissions were 666, I set them to 644. Most script configs have these permissions. After that, follow the link "this link" and get to home page installed wiki dictionary.

Now all that remains is to configure and understand the functionality.

Setting up MediaWiki

I didn’t look into the settings in detail, since I haven’t yet decided what I will use. You can find answers to many questions related to setting up MediaWiki in the Russian FAQ for MediaWiki on the website mediawiki.org.

I installed the dictionary a long time ago, but I still didn’t like it. This is an independent CMS unfamiliar to me with its own characteristics, which means you will need to understand the settings, customize some points for yourself, look for and install add-ons, install existing design on her, etc.

In short, I decided to implement a dictionary in WordPress, but not using standard tools, but with using wiki plugins. Then compare the 2 options and choose the more successful one. But more on that in the next post.

Wiki services and engines

Open source corporate wiki. Allows you to organize workspaces for collaboration, file storage, discussions, blogs. It has excellent integration capabilities and more than 100 plugins. Well compatible with MS Office

Service for creating public and intranet sites. Allows you to create pages of various formats: text, list, discussions, files. You can insert multimedia content into pages, as well as widgets (for example, documents or a calendar).

A wiki with a very convenient (and no less powerful than a word processor) WYSIWYG editor, tools for version control, page organization, search and collaboration. You can create multiple sections

A free online service for creating and structuring articles and simultaneously collaborating.

Foswiki is a free wiki engine for enterprise use, written in Perl. The main difference from most other engines is the ability to structure information into sections (“Webs”, “webs”), and set access rules for each section.

Social software, including wiki, social network, microblogging system. Available as an Internet service and as an installable open-source system. Documents are organized only using tags. Contains tools for working with downloaded files. There are user profiles start page, fully compatible with iGoogle

A combination of Wiki and file storage. Web-based installable system. Synchronize files between the server and user computers. There is version control and access rights. Mobile web interface. Tasks, events - synchronized with Outlook. There is a Russian interface.

Wikipedia engine, available for creating your own wiki knowledge base. Written in PHP, distributed as free and open source software source code.

Corporate wiki system with advanced security measures. Contains file storage with WebDAV support, profiles, microblogs, forums, news, analytics. Allows you to create workspaces for different projects. There is a fully functional free version. Integrates with enterprise applications, portals and databases. There is a Russian interface.

Free Open-source CMS/Wiki. In addition to Wiki functionality, it contains forums, blogs, articles, a gallery, and a bug tracker. Groupware is a web application that can be used to create and manage websites and portals, intranets and extranets.

Engine- this is a slang expression, correct name – software package site management. Similar system control can consist of many small modules (i.e. several small programs) that are combined into a common system. The most common abbreviation CMS – Content Management System– Content Management System.

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List of popular engines

Using the following engines, you can create your own forum, blog, personal page or business website on the Internet. This list contains the most famous engines, both paid and free. The list will be updated as soon as possible. These “engines” are the most popular among beginners and advanced website developers. Each engine has its own advantages and disadvantages. In general, in order to create a website using these engines, there is no need to know programming languages and other similar things. Managing a website will not pose any particular difficulties for every novice webmaster.

Blogs, portals, business card sites

It is a powerful platform for personal blogging. It contains an excellent set of features to simplify the process of creating online publications as much as possible, making it enjoyable and convenient. WordPress is designed to be installed on your own Web server, or on the server of your host, which provides you with full control above your blog. WordPress is completely free to download. You can also download it separately various templates, which makes the site design unique, as well as additional software to expand the capabilities of your site. Read all the details of working with this engine in the article on how to create a website in Wordpress. The engine is distributed free of charge.

This is a popular content management system in the world that allows you to limitless possibilities for posting content and its comfortable management. An undeniable advantage system – the opportunity to develop a website on it yourself! Of course, you will need certain web programming skills here. But your knowledge may be simply minimal if you use the Joomla website development guide. The system developers offer to help make a website of any complexity for a fee, but you can make a website on Joomla for free, but on your own. Then you will only need to pay for the domain and hosting the site. And everything else is absolutely free, not counting your time. In general, the system is similar to Wordpress. It's easy to understand when the right approach and desire. Read all the details of working with this engine in the article on how to create a website in Joomla. You can download the engine for free.

It is a content management system (CMS), as well as a framework for creating web applications (CMF). Using this system you can build websites and web applications for various purposes and complexity. The user interface allows you to manage Drupal sites without knowledge of HTML, web layout or programming languages. Drupal is developed by an international team of developers as open source software. source texts. Read all the details of working with this engine in the article on how to create a website in Drupal. Drupal is distributed free of charge.

DataLife Engine (DLE)

This is a multi-user news engine designed for organizing your own blogs and media on the Internet. Thanks to powerful system publishing, setting up and editing news, the engine is one step ahead of its closest competitors. And thanks to the precise and thoughtful structure of the kernel, which minimizes the requirements for server resources, the engine is able to easily work with highly visited projects without creating any special loads on the server. Flexibility and ease of configuration and integration own design will allow you to deploy your own sites in the most as soon as possible, without any additional material costs. For details, read the article on how to create a website in DataLife Engine. A basic license costs 2190 rubles. An extended license costs 2,790 rubles.

A professional website management system (CMS, Content Management System), which has been developed since 1999 and is one of the leading Russian market. NetCat is designed to create the vast majority of types of websites: from simple “business cards” with minimal content to complex web systems, from corporate offices to online stores, data libraries or media - in a word, projects of completely different directions and any level of complexity. Even an untrained user can manage a website based on NetCat, because this does not require knowledge of Internet technologies, programming languages and markup. Read also the article on how to create a website in NetCat. The NetCat engine costs from 5820 rubles. up to 34900 rub. depending on the package you buy.

UMI.CMS is a website development tool that allows large groups of users to create and maintain websites with with minimal effort. Home target audience UMI.CMS are website developers, as well as people who do not have extensive knowledge of Internet technologies, but who are faced with the task of creating and maintaining websites. Do you have knowledge about your subject area and ideas for site content, and UMI.CMS gives you the tools to turn them into a finished product. For details, read the article on how to create a website in UMI.CMS. The cheapest UMI.CMS Lite license costs 3,900 rubles, the most expensive UMI.CMS Commerce license costs 29,900 rubles.

MODx CMS/CMF

MODx(read “modex”) is a free professional content management system (CMS) and framework for web applications designed to enable and organize the collaborative process of creating, editing and managing website content. Very functional, expandable and convenient system website development. This is a new generation engine, which was originally designed for creating Web 2.0 generation projects. For more information about the engine, read the article on how to create a website in MODx. MODX Revolution can be downloaded for free.

Forums

Invision Power Board (IPB)

IP.Board(abbreviated as IPB or IP.Board or IP Board) is a popular software (set of scripts) for organizing Internet forums. Developed by the company Invision Power Services Inc. If you decide to create a website where users can communicate on various topics, then IP.Board is one of the many engines that allows you to do this. This software is paid. Easy to set up and can be downloaded on the Internet additional modules and templates for this engine. To install the forum you will also need minimal knowledge of the databases MySQL data(how to create them, nothing more). Detailed information You can read in the article how to create a forum in IP.Board. The price depends on how many users the engine allows on the network at a time. From $10 to $590.

VBulletin

VBulletin- a forum engine that allows your users to communicate, take part in discussions, ask and answer questions, and create polls, thereby helping you build a community. Unlike a blog, in a forum, discussants interact with each other by posting questions and answers. You can read about how to create a forum on this engine in the article How to create a forum in VBulletin. Free version This engine for the forum cannot be officially downloaded. Priced at $249 and $359, the second option is more advanced and has a number of advantages.

phpBB

XenForo

Notice boards

Osclass

Osclass open source classifieds- an engine for organizing and managing bulletin boards. For this engine to function, it is necessary to create a MySQL database. Installing and configuring a bulletin board is simple and does not require deep knowledge. Exists additional additions to the site to customize the design, publish ads, and others additional functions. The disadvantage of this engine is that many plugins are incompatible with each other and you have to configure the site yourself. You also don’t have to rely on quick technical support from the developers. All help is provided on the official forum, where you have to wait an extremely long time for answers to questions asked. The engine can be downloaded completely free of charge. You can also read the article about how to create a bulletin board website using this engine and more.

Open Classifieds

Open Classifieds- another one good system for organizing an advertisement site, which has a number of advantages. This software can be downloaded absolutely free, and at the same time, since the source code is open, you can change and customize the script to suit your needs. It is also possible to download paid version, which has additional features. This “engine” can be adapted for any type of bulletin board: real estate catalogue, job search, business catalogue, forum and much more. The admin panel has many settings: design style, add additional extensions and so on. This engine is also integrated with monetary PayPal system, which will allow you to configure additional paid and convenient features for users, from which they can make a profit in the future. In other words, this engine is easy to install, easily customizable, optimized for mobile devices, has many free themes design, has an intuitive control panel for the administrator, is multilingual, optimized for SEO and is highly produced.

Online stores

ocStore

ocStore is a platform for creating an online store, which is based on Opencart and has open source code. A very simple and reliable solution for everyone who wants to create their own online business, online store at minimum costs. ocStore has been completely translated into Russian and this platform has everything you need for easy and quick installation to your hosting. This "engine" is multifunctional, easy to use, friendly to search engines and has a simple and attractive appearance and control panel. Read a separate article about how to create an online store using ocStore.

Other engines

It is a free and open source software written in PHP that implements the hypertext environment "wiki" (wiki) and was originally created as the "engine" of Wikipedia. MediaWiki is currently in use various projects non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, as well as many other sites, including this site. Very convenient engine for the site, especially for writing various kinds of articles. They are developed for this engine both by the engine developers and by individual programmers individual modules to expand the functions of the site engine. Read all the details of working with this engine in the article how to create a website using MediaWiki. You can download it for free.

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