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Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. One drawback is that the syntax of Dokuwiki is different than MediaWiki, and so the more I use it, the more I forget when I use MediaWiki. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki.

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Wiki Syntax madness

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. I am an avid Wiki user.

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Varied and sundry before a brief break

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I keep discovering new and exciting free and open source web platforms. And further, there is an amazing integration of Elgg with Mediawiki. One of which is called Elgg. Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Basically, he argues that in the era of Web 2.0, I know it is awfully Web 1.0 The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents. Among other great things, he has this amazing post about Microsoft, and their future. the only really compelling platform they have is Excel.