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There are currently (in my mind) two commercially viable options in the "wiki" style arena. Firstly a mashup of a wiki and Etherpad. So you can browse the wiki
by ErrantX 17y ago
There are currently (in my mind) two commercially viable options in the "wiki" style arena.
Firstly a mashup of a wiki and Etherpad. So you can browse the wiki as normal - but when it comes to editing you get an Etherpad style interface to allow collaborative editing.
Secondly (and there is a big business here if you get it right) is document management storage. Everything has to be versioned and audited now to meet ISO standard. A server that would accept uploaded word, excel etc. documents, let you edit them and create new ones would be killer, you could track versions automatically and place it prominently in the document as well as maintain an audit of edits. Another wiki aspect would come in in terms of discussing the documents (like a talk page) which is massively useful.
- moe 17y agoSo you can browse the wiki as normal - but when it comes to editing you get an Etherpad style interface to allow collaborative editing. Just my 2 cents but I strongly disagree with that. "Realtime" collaborative editing is a very, very small niche. Think about it, how often do you need or want that? Secondly (and there is a big business here if you get it right) is document management storage. With this one I agree. Equally strongly. ;-)
- ErrantX 17y agoFair point. Although I have found many aspects of Etherpad to be incredibly useful (and we use and installation of it internally at work now for speccing work) - with some work it could be the "next big thing"