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Highlighter-style highlighting wiki engine that is easily runnable

I'm looking for a wiki engine that lets me highlight sections as I would with a highlighting marker, preferably in at least two colors. I want the engine to be a small installation that is as easy to ...
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Keeping links while moving files between different PmWiki sites

I am moving a subset of a Wiki (pmwiki) from one site to another. Both sites are on the same server (assume they're called Wiki1 and Wiki2). The problem is that some of the pages that I am moving ...
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Mediawiki for personal use [closed]

I need to setup a mediawiki like wiki for some personal projects. Access control is absolutely essential. I should be able to approve when new users create an account on the system. Therefore, i ...
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Creating a private wiki

I want to create a simple, private wiki, but am really struggling to find what I need. I require the following features: Private wiki. Only I will read or write it. Some formatting capability: ...
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Removing non-existent links in mediawiki for non-logged in users in Mediawiki

I made some change in the Includes/Linker.php to remove non-existent links to anonymous users of my wiki site. The code just shows the text and no link. It used to work fine in older version, but in ...
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Upstart library for common programms

Is there any web-library or wiki-system available, that contains linux/ubuntu Upstart configurations for common tasks? I had to write my own configurations for a java glassfish application server and ...
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How can you avoid being asked to enter your BitBucket password when you push to BitBucket wiki?

I'm not sure if everyone experiences this - when I edit a BitBucket wiki locally (through a git repository) I have to enter my BitBucket password for every pull and push. Is there any way around ...
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How do I make a link *within* a page using Redmine (textile) markup

Within a Redmine Wiki page (which uses Textile markup syntax), how do I make links within the page itself? uI can't see a solution here. Of course I can do [[ThisPage#Foo|Foo]] but I would rather do ...
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How to use pandoc to convert a block of text in Emacs from Markdown to Wiki text?

How to use an external program such as pandoc to convert a block of text in Emacs from Markdown to Wiki text (as used by Mediawiki), and substitute the content in situ?
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Multi-user wikipad-like application

I have been looking for a convenient tool to help me build my knowledge-base for some time now. I have just discovered WikiPad and I am amazed. The tool seems great but has one drawback - it is a ...
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Which wiki toolkit has the greatest support for data freedom?

Our dev team has poured a lot of knowledge into a Sharepoint wiki. The experience has made me a convert to the core ideas of a wiki - ease of link/page creation, metadata, search tools, versioning, ...
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MediaWiki like wiki, but with user management?

I really like the syntax of MediaWiki, and that it doesn't use a rich editor, but I would very much like if it had user management. As far as I can tell, the page is either locked or open for anyone ...
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Styled tables in trac's wiki

I have a table in trac's wiki, just a regular html table, and manager asks me to add some styling. What is the best way to accomplish this? I can write a script which inserts style attribute to every ...
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How do I (can I at all?) write a reference to a file in a directory outside of the current wiki directory for wiki mode for emacs?

I'm using wiki-mode for emacs, and I'm trying to figure out how to short-hand reference files that are in directories external to the current directory. I figured the syntax would look something like ...
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What is a good hosted software for FAQ [closed]

I need something in a form of Knowledge Base/FAQ/Wiki to deliver FAQ to users over web. Preferably hosted solution. What are my options?
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Portable Wiki which stores .txt or HTML files

I know there are TiddlyWiki but I need one which stores HTML or even .txt files. I want to use this Wiki like a personal blog, i want to log my life (probably cringy to you) and things I've done, ...
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Advice on platform for web-help? [closed]

We have a web-based software product that has a growing user-base of around 200+ people. We used to have our help sent out with the product as PDFs, and then last year we offer both the PDFs and also ...
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Is there some application to edit local wiki pages in WYSIWYG mode ON windows?

I am searching for some application which will help me with writing project documentation. From what i understand now, gollum and gitit should help me with that, but it seems that they can't be used ...
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Is there a wiki server that works from pendrive?

I want to do a wiki for documentation of my project, but I develop it in some different places, so I want to have all the information of the wiki on my pendrive. There is some way to do all the ...
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Is there a database-reliant Wiki with the simplicity of Github's Wiki?

I'm a fan of the Github wiki implementation with how it generates very simple, customizable pages using just Markdown. I find many of the implementations, such as MediaWiki's, too complicated for ...
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What's the better OCR software? [closed]

I'm using tesseract-ocr for a long time, but, it doesn't work so well. I found this site (http://www.onlineocr.net/default.aspx) that works great. Someone knew another OCR software, maybe free?
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Gollum-like wiki based on Mercurial

Is there a Gollum-like Wiki (Gollum uses a Git repo to store its pages) based on Mercurial (instead of Git)?
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Need a wiki with a nice GUI [closed]

My grandfather in law wants to put together a wiki, but wikimedia's syntax is to complicated for him. Is there a nice wiki software I can install on my ubuntu server with a GUI to edit tables, links ...
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Converting MediaWiki to something more portable

I was hosting a local MediaWiki using XAMPP on a Windows machine. Recently, I've begun using multiple machines and realized that having the wiki run locally on a Windows machine might not be the ideal ...
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Uses for a local-only wiki, such as SoyWiki?

What are some uses for a wiki such as SoyWiki, that is only accessed locally? Of course, this doesn't just have to apply to SoyWiki, it could apply to any type of wiki that can only be accessed on a ...
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Managing records of bugs and notes

I want to create a knowledgebase for a piece of software. I'd also like to be able to track bugs and common points of failure in that application. Linking knowledgebase articles to bug records would ...
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How do I get updates of a wiki to my email?

I want to know if there are web applications or programs that can detect when a change is done to a wiki. Can the program inform you by email if the wiki has been changed. Any help appreciated, Ted.
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Freeware personal wiki on desktop & mobile using plaintext?

I'm looking for a freeware personal wiki with these additional criteria: Use plaintext files for the wiki articles. Have desktop Windows version, and mobile version (Windows Mobile or Android). Can ...
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Using the same source of a manual to build a PDF-file and a website reference|wiki

Me and my colleagues are constantly facing one problem, which I don't see a solution for yet. I hope you can advice me a good one. Let's say, we have a manual or a text-book, which should be both ...
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Free Wiki software that can easily convert to confluence

Simply: What is some good free Wiki software that can be quickly/easily ported over to confluence? More specifically: We need something free that we can use to build up a repository of documentation, ...
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How do you view available shortcuts on confluence?

Confluence allows you to use shortcuts, so for example you could have [confluence@Google] to link to http://www.google.com/search?q=confluence However, I can't seem to find a listing of all available ...
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Best Light Software to Manage Large Amounts of Data?

I have seen suggestions like TiddlyWiki for storing data that you want to sort out, but I like solutions like MediaWiki but I don't like how heavy it is and I don't mind if I host it up on a webserver ...
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How can I backup a SharePoint wiki and view it offline?

I am looking for a way to backup a SharePoint 2007 wiki and view it offline, if possible without using the central administration and stsadm. Any suggestion?
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Exporting a subset of an Excel sheet as a (clean) HTML tab

I have an Excel sheet with several sheets and containing quite a few tables of information which are really intended to be published on a common wiki at my company. Previously, we used to use ...
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What is the default location of the MediaWiki extensions directory?

I recently install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 10.04 using all the default settings. I'm looking to install an extension. Where is the extensions directory located by default?
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Wiki with excellent concurrency support where multiple users may edit a page at the same time? [closed]

I'm looking for a Wiki with excellent concurrency support where multiple users may edit a page at the same time. Are there any? We currently use cvstrac where one user may edit one wikipage at a ...
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wiki for sphinx+ReStructuredText server

I've been using sphinx as a document engine for an internal document server in my company. It uses ReStructuredText as its markup language. Today, I need to edit the source files manually, compile ...
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Offline Mediawiki editing / syncing?

I run a private mediawiki site for research and study, but its a catch 22 situation of I have the most time to organise it when I'm on the road and not online! Aside from getting a 3G dongle ...
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Is there a wiki that supports MS Word Import/Export?

I inherited the task of taking over documentation for a project. It is mostly software developers, but there are a few fairly non-technical people who don't like wikis and really love Word. The thing ...
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Checkbox in Mediawiki syntax?

Is there a way to insert an HTML checkbox in Mediawiki syntax? <input> doesn't appear on their list of blessed tags, so I can't just insert it. (FWIW, this is for a private documentation page ...
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What wiki software comes most recommended?

So I am wondering what is considered the 'best' wiki software. I am looking for things like current support (i.e. Flexwiki is a good product but it hasn't been updated in two years), a large user ...
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How do MediaWiki and Confluence compare in a corporate setting? [closed]

My question is less about features are more about your real world experiences. Has anyone used both MediaWiki and Confluence in a business environment and can comment on how they worked? So although ...
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What is more important for speed: Processor Speed or RAM? [closed]

I am about to buy a desktop, I narrowed it down to two choices, both are virtually identical (even in terms of price) but one has 4 GB of RAM and a 3.7 GHZ CPU the other has 8GB of RAM and a 2.7 GHZ ...
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MediaWiki alternatives for small business?

Are there any good alternative wiki's to MediaWiki out there for a small business? Mostly we are just wanting to use it for documentation. MediaWiki is a fine (and slightly outdated) piece of ...
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Wiki with command line support?

I'm looking for a wiki that can be edited from the web and also a command line client. Any ideas?
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Anyone knows a portable wiki-like application?

I need a portable application, like a wikipedia, or notebook, or something similar, that can store notes, todo lists and files (think of code snippets). I need something similar to ...
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Is there any way to delete a Confluence page and all of its children at once?

Is there any way to delete a Confluence page and have it delete all of its children at once?
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Cross-platform note taking / wiki application that is lightweight/simple to use? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What is your notes taking tool ? I am looking for a note-taking / desktop-wiki app that would work on Mac and Windows with the following features: Very simple UI and ...
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Make a single page a wiki-style editable using PHP

Are there any lightweight PHP solutions out there for making a single page editable by anyone who views it? Update: and I don't mean like TiddlyWiki.
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Wiki on a pendrive - should work with any OS

I want to have an "extended memory" and want to accomplish that with an wiki on an pendrive. I already decided to use PmWiki, but if another wiki solves my problem that would be fine. The issue is: ...

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