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I did that for a very large multi-continent automotive company. There were several unsuccessful attempts before. I did it with my own phpwiki, plus xapian integ
by rurban 1y ago
I did that for a very large multi-continent automotive company. There were several unsuccessful attempts before. I did it with my own phpwiki, plus xapian integration for searching over all the other existing documentation and tickets, SAP and CQ. It's still doing good for the last 15 years.
It's markdown, with several plug-ins. Easier than mediawiki which relies on human forces. We preferred automation, but no insanities like on other wikis like WYSIWYG editing and such management nonsense.
- aljgz 1y agoThis is very interesting. If it's convenient, can you please share a few reasons why previous attempts failed?
- rurban 1y agoThey tried the usual wikis, like mediawiki, confluence,... But had no search integration of their other documentation. And I had the advantage of being the phpwiki maintainer those times to easily extend it to our needs. And I wrote some custom plugins for them, with ajax tricks. It helped that phpwiki is not such a mess as mediawiki, which was also entirely insecure. All these plugins were up streamed then. Then Alcatel took over maintainance and they run a similar knowledge base.