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by Ninjaneered 2718 days ago
MediaWiki.

The downside is that to get it running with a good set of extensions that optimizes it for enterprise use takes a bit of an effort.

The upside is that once you do, it becomes an incredibly powerful tool that most users adopt without complaint. It hits all the OPs requests for searchable, code snippets (with syntax highlighting), and hyperlinking. When you add the ability to store and reuse structured data (Cargo or Semantic MediaWiki) it really becomes powerful.

Others I've tried:

- SharePoint (this is so bad it pains me to mention it)

- Confluence (not bad, but lacks structured data and seems to be focused on serving smaller teams vs. an entire company)

- OneNote (great for personal use, not as great for teams, especially not great at tracking multi-user changes)

- EverNote (great for personal use, not as great for teams, especially not great at tracking multi-user changes)

- Salesforce Knowledge (Didn't get too deep, but seemed better for help desk answer queue than internal documentation)