Re:Ask HN: What wiki/intranet do you use at your company?
by souprock on Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:53PM
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Good old MediaWiki, the software running wikipedia, works great. There will never be a concern about scalability (LOL), licensing, product discontinuation, or data import/export.
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Re:Ask HN: What wiki/intranet do you use at your company?
by XavierPladevall on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:05PM
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Ah very cool. Do you link to your other docs here? Stuff like support tickets (JIRA, ZenDesk), design files, spreadsheets, etc.?
Re:Ask HN: What wiki/intranet do you use at your company?
by souprock on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:34PM
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Documents get put in there, yes. The ones I pay attention to are PDFs containing hardware documentation.
We don't have to put everything there. We also run the reddit software, an IRC server, a plain old web server that users can ssh into, and a CIFS file server. It's mostly standard highly-scalable free software, and it all runs without an internet connection.
We do sadly have a bit of a JIRA addiction. It's a bad habit that is hard to break. The lock-in is real. Never start down this path.
One nice thing about the free software is that you can clone a fresh VM for a new project. You don't have to purchase anything. Use of a VM solves lots of troubles with access control.