SocialText
Socialtext is the company that, in 2003, was first to make a commercial product of wiki platforms. Today they offer a full-featured Enterprise wiki.
Socialtext provides wikis four ways: hosted, appliance, supported product, and open source.
Pricing: They provide personal or groups with up to 5 to use a hosted wiki free.
For General Overview of Wikis see this page
Socialtext's Enterprise wiki Capabilities
- Multiple access control across pages or sections of the wiki e.g., if team members A and B and partner C are sharing material on a Twiki instance, would have to create another, separate Twiki instance if you want just team members A and B share info. With an enterprise wiki like that from Socialtext, there is just one instance of the wiki to accomplish this. Socialtext uses the term workspace to mean a set of pages on a wiki which have unique access e.g., the "marketing workspace" means that pages in the marketing section of the overall wiki instance have a unique set of users who can access it.
- Search - when you don't know on which pages information you want resides, you'llwant to be able to search across all pages and all wikis
- Link pages between workspaces e.g., accounting dept page and marketing dept. page …
- Wiki pages on mobile devices … strips out all the graphic, and javascript behind buttons, etc. … sending you just text on the pages and let you edit that text … M - iki mobile wiki's
Detach a page - work offline on those pages
Example of how Socialtext used its wiki to manage the development of its product:
- This is the entry page to a set of workspaces through which all of SocialText’s (open sourced) product development is being managed. Visibility into projects is based on the product / deliverable being worked in that project. Under Current Projects, click the “I18 Project”.
- I18 project is the Japanese localization of the SocialText wiki. Note the project goals, schedule, phases, notes, etc. are all there. Under “Project Phases” click the “Phase I – Infrastructure” link.
- Phase I of I18 has two iterations, click the “Kamma Iteration – start … “
- Now you can see the details of the people, tasks, etc. working on the Kamma Iteration segment of this large localization project. You can see all the many tasks, who is working on them, details/status on each. Click the light grey Revisions link in upper right hand corner to get a sense of the range of people who have changed the Kamma Iteration page. There are a LOT of people working on this effort, and they are all updating this wiki themselves.
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