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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

I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. I didn’t get so far into coding the markup, but I had decided that I’d follow MediaWiki’s syntax, since it was the most popular wiki software. And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms.

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Varied and sundry before a brief break

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And further, there is an amazing integration of Elgg with Mediawiki. Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. I wish I had an excuse to install and test it – but it really requires a purpose for bringing community together.

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Tagged Again. Media Consumption.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wiki: I love wikispaces, but also use mediawiki, socialtext, and pbwiki. I listen to music on my IPOD while I blog. Recently, I'm addicted to Sarasate and virtusouso violin music. Music: I was trained as a classical musician and love music - world music, latin music, jazz, world music, you name it.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents. Without getting into Google’s plan for world domination, what would help there is to see more universal adoption of OpenID[2]. [0] 0] [link] [1] Three offices, no sys-admin.