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To Wiki or not to Wiki: Why not TikiWiki? Why not TikiWiki? A full-featured, open source, multilingual wiki-based Content Management System http://tikiwiki.org nelson@tikiwiki.org
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What I'll talk about Mass collaboration Wikis Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 TikiWiki CMS/Groupware Staging and approval Demo
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Mass Collaboration What is the largest volunteer mass collaboration project in the history of humankind?
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Wikis: what for? Wikipedia Documentation Collaboration -> flexible, simple freeform project management Intranet or extranet Great for unstructured content, can be structured with categories, tags, data trackers
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Why a wiki? Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach someone to fish and you feed them for a lifetime. Add that knowledge to a wiki And countless people will be able to learn on their own And share their knowledge And many will feed their families
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Because email doesn't scale
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Wiki features Use a standard web-browser Shared, editable Wysiwyg + wiki syntax for simple links and formatting Powerful revision control: Every single change is tracked. Who/what/when + ability to show the difference Email notification of changes (opt-in)
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Web 2.0 Connect –Facebook, LinkedIn, Orkut Communicate –Blogs, Twitter –Jabber, Skype Collaborate –Wiki, Sharepoint, Forums
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Enterprise 2.0 Group Work Individual Work Personal Space Open Space Group Space Email Wiki Desktop Blog Internal Wiki Internal Blog Groupware Forums
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TikiWiki CMS/Groupware Tightly Integrated Knowledge Infrastructure Combination CMS + wiki + groupware Stable & established application Very active community Free and open source software (LGPL) Consultants if you need paid support Used on tens of thousands of sites 5 years, hundreds of people
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TikiWiki CMS/Groupware (2) Translated into 30+ languages 900+ pages of documentation Unlimited number of users Unlimited number of groups Users can be in any number of groups Runs on standard PHP/MYSQL making web hosting easy and inexpensive
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More TikiWiki Features Hundreds of built-in features Wiki, Blogs & Articles File gallery –Check-in/out, categories, plugin to filter Trackers –Custom database, forms and reports Discussion forums, Polls
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TikiWiki Use Cases Online community / association / club / special interest group / NGO website (A) Personal site / family site (A) Simple portal / news site (A) Advanced portal / news site (A) Groupware Wiki / Intranet / Team project (A) Public Wiki (A) Group knowledge base / Knowledge Management (KM) (A) Product or software documentation and support (A) Customer extranet (B) Wiki-based Project Management (PM) (B)
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TikiWiki Use Cases (2) Glossary / Dictionary / Encyclopedia (B) Writing a book (B) Framework / Activity Workflow / Specialized Web Application (B) Document Workflow (B) Issue/Data tracker (B) Collaborative research (B) Geo CMS (B) Document Management System (DMS) (B) Translation Management System (TMS) (B) Blog (C) Calendar of events (C)
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TikiWiki Use Cases (3) Event Management, Conference Management & planning (C) Voice-enabled wiki and mobile applications (C) Traditional Project Management (PM) with Gantt charts, etc (D) E-learning / Learning Management System (LMS) / classroom / course management system (CMS) (D) Customer/Contact/Constituent relationship management (CRM) (D) E-democracy (D) Social networking / Job board / Dating site / hospitality exchange / Car Pooling (D) E-commerce / Shopping cart (D) Enterprise resource planning (ERP) / Accounting (E)
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Staging and Approval
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3 Things... …I want you to remember about this talk in 6 months –TikiWiki is an all-in-one solution –The TikiWiki community eats its own DogFood –Wiki & open source technology is available at a good Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
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Demo Sit back and relax Ask questions anytime
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Collaboration... The TikiWiki community will be happy to work with any organization to help use: –The same principles as Wikipedia –The same technology as Firefox –Open source software
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nelsonko.com Project administrator of TikiWiki CMS/Groupware Runs open source company doing TikiWiki consulting (Citadel Rock) Was development lead for support.mozilla.com Formerly from HP
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Questions TikiWiki.org Wiki-translation.com nelson@tikiwiki.org
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