{"id":340,"date":"2005-03-01T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T23:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=340"},"modified":"2005-03-01T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T23:30:52","slug":"yes-the-redmonk-wiki-is-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2005\/03\/01\/yes-the-redmonk-wiki-is-now-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, The RedMonk Wiki is Now Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since my colleague has spilled the beans<\/a>, I might as well come clean and let everyone know that the long promised<\/a> RedMonk Wiki is now live at wiki.redmonk.com<\/a><\/strike> www.redmonk.com\/wiki<\/a>. It’s only 7 months late; compared to some of the software companies we cover, that’s almost early (joking guys, joking). <\/p>\n

Anyway, I kicked back into wiki evaluator mode over the last few weeks, and had the benefit of some excellent feedback from some of the fine folks at Sun (James Todd<\/a>, Vijay Anand – and thanks to Tim Bray for directing us their way), Andy Fundinger – one of the folks behind eWiki<\/a>, and some recommendations via IM from Atariboy<\/a>. And James, let me know if I forgot anyone. <\/p>\n

The recommendation shortlist looked something like this:<\/p>\n

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  1. eWiki\n
  2. Instiki\n
  3. MediaWiki\n
  4. SnipSnap<\/ol>\n

    MoinMoin and PHPWiki also got some recommendations as well. My requirements looked like this:<\/p>\n

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    1. Large community\n
    2. Ability to export contents\n
    3. Customizable look and feel\n
    4. Ease of use\n
    5. Scripting based language implementation (PHP, etc)\n
    6. Uses Apache<\/ol>\n

      These are partially because of what fits our needs, but mostly because I’m the one who’s going to be admining it. <\/p>\n

      So from our list SnipSnap was out (sorry James \ud83d\ude09 because I didn’t feel like I had the time to get Tomcat up and running, though this was a hard decision because SnipSnap is just cool<\/em>. Instiki was next, and the embedded HTTP server wasn’t ideal for our setup, so that was out (sorry Atariboy ;). That left eWiki and MediaWiki, and on this one I basically looked at what the Hula<\/a> and Mono<\/a> folks were doing, and decided that MediaWiki would be a good bet (sorry Andy ;). Given its exporting abilities, however, we should in theory be able to switch if it becomes necessary. Thanks to everyone for their feedback and suggestions; it was a big, big help. <\/p>\n

      So what’s on the RedMonk Wiki? Well…not much. Yet. We’ve got part of COA up, as James noted, but as I was reformatting the table into HTML on Friday the Windows 2K box I was working on bluescreened and I haven’t had time to finish it up yet. <\/p>\n

      What will go on the Wiki? Many things, we hope. But for now, I’ll use the old vendor favorite: stay tuned \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

      Update<\/strong>: Ryan was kind enough to point out that our subdomain, wiki.redmonk.com actually was *not* working, so until I get a chance to see what the issue is there, use the direct link: http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/wiki. Thanks, Ryan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Since my colleague has spilled the beans, I might as well come clean and let everyone know that the long promised RedMonk Wiki is now live at wiki.redmonk.com www.redmonk.com\/wiki. It’s only 7 months late; compared to some of the software companies we cover, that’s almost early (joking guys, joking). Anyway, I kicked back into wiki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redmonk-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}