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Sidetrack, what's a good collaborative wiki? I've tried a bunch but always found Confluence much more polished than other offerings.

jraph 4y ago
I'm working at XWiki SAS [1], which provides hosting, support and customization for XWiki [2], an open source extensible wiki you can use for collaboration in a team (among other things). We are seeing many clients coming from Confluence because of the recent price raise and so we have tools to migrate from Confluence. They seem happy. There are ways to customize XWiki to fulfill the specific need of each team if the wiki is a model that suits you. There are a lot of extensions available and you can program in the wiki itself to adapt it if standard XWiki lack some specific feature you'd need. I don't know Confluence though, so I cannot say how more or less polished XWiki is compared to Confluence. Anyway, don't hesitate to reach the XWiki community (there's a public forum and a public matrix channel, come say hello!) or XWiki SAS if you have questions or concerns, they'll be happy to answer and you can see whether XWiki would be a good fit for you :-) [1] https://xwiki.com/ https://xwiki.com/ [2] https://xwiki.org/ https://xwiki.org/
tommoor 4y ago
We've seen a _lot_ of folks coming across from Confluence to Outline since Atlassian stopped offering on-premise licenses. We have a cloud, self-hosted community, and on-premise offerings. https://getoutline.com https://getoutline.com
dobin 4y ago
When I evaluated some last year, my favourites have been Bookstack and Wiki.js. Both are open source.
micw 4y ago
Have a look at https://www.bookstackapp.com/ https://www.bookstackapp.com/. It's open source, very polished and also useable for non-techies.
quickthrower2 4y ago
A not so good one is Onenote
dsr_ 4y ago
After a couple of hours of customization, dokuwiki is excellent.
- TheCapn 4y ago
  I've found it pretty usable out of box, though I guess it depends on exactly what customizations you normally recommend.
  - dsr_ 4y ago
    Pick a theme that meets user expectations; add plug-ins that make sense; set up authentication that fits your use case; create a site skeleton that fits the way people will use the site. Things like that.

jraph 4y ago

I'm working at XWiki SAS [1], which provides hosting, support and customization for XWiki [2], an open source extensible wiki you can use for collaboration in a team (among other things). We are seeing many clients coming from Confluence because of the recent price raise and so we have tools to migrate from Confluence. They seem happy. There are ways to customize XWiki to fulfill the specific need of each team if the wiki is a model that suits you. There are a lot of extensions available and you can program in the wiki itself to adapt it if standard XWiki lack some specific feature you'd need. I don't know Confluence though, so I cannot say how more or less polished XWiki is compared to Confluence. Anyway, don't hesitate to reach the XWiki community (there's a public forum and a public matrix channel, come say hello!) or XWiki SAS if you have questions or concerns, they'll be happy to answer and you can see whether XWiki would be a good fit for you :-) [1] https://xwiki.com/ https://xwiki.com/ [2] https://xwiki.org/ https://xwiki.org/

tommoor 4y ago

We've seen a _lot_ of folks coming across from Confluence to Outline since Atlassian stopped offering on-premise licenses. We have a cloud, self-hosted community, and on-premise offerings. https://getoutline.com https://getoutline.com

dobin 4y ago

When I evaluated some last year, my favourites have been Bookstack and Wiki.js. Both are open source.

micw 4y ago

Have a look at https://www.bookstackapp.com/ https://www.bookstackapp.com/. It's open source, very polished and also useable for non-techies.

quickthrower2 4y ago

A not so good one is Onenote

dsr_ 4y ago

After a couple of hours of customization, dokuwiki is excellent.

TheCapn 4y ago
I've found it pretty usable out of box, though I guess it depends on exactly what customizations you normally recommend.
- dsr_ 4y ago
  Pick a theme that meets user expectations; add plug-ins that make sense; set up authentication that fits your use case; create a site skeleton that fits the way people will use the site. Things like that.