[WikiEN-l] What Knol may actually be: enterprise wiki substitute

[David Gerard]

On 15/12/2007, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2007 4:03 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > (I'm a *tremendous* fan of office wikis. Best idea ever IMO.)

> I love them, but I also find it nigh-on impossible to fight the
> corporate need to CONTROL them in useless ways.  They tend to want
> complicated permissions structures and stuff like that which end up
> ruining the wiki idea under a pile of red tape.


That's why I'm setting up our office wikifarm on Mediawiki, where that
stuff is never going into the core code ;-) Anyone who demands TWiki
or Confluence for severe ACLs deserves the wiki they end up with.


- d.