August 29, 2007
Free Wiki Outpaces and Outperforms the Competition
Aaron Fulkerson @ 3:22 pm
MindTouch Deki Wiki is the most integrated and extensible wiki available. And we're rapidly accelerating away from the competition. "Out of the box" Deki Wiki has extensions that integrate with 27 external applications, providing almost 100 additional new features to Deki Wiki. Here is a small sampling:
- Flickr for easily embedding slideshows and badges
- Yahoo! with CDN, Keyword extraction, financial news
- Google with Maps, Analytics, Video Search, Blog search, News search, and more…
- Microsoft Live services for Virtual Earth and Live Contacts
- Wordpress
- Drupal
- Joomla
- Latex for Math embedding equations
- Widgetbox widgets and panels
- Gabbly for real-time chat
- LDAP and Active Directory
- And many more.
In addition, Deki Wiki has a built in scripting language called DekiScript enabling users to combine all theses capabilities into user-generated mashups. There is an infinite number of ways a person can incorporate, transform, and extend information from the wiki or from the web. This means anyone will be able to extend Deki Wiki in ways that MindTouch never even thought of. And that's just the way it should be!
MindTouch Deki Wiki has quickly become the premier, easiest to use, and most powerful wiki for creating rich content, dynamically aggregating content, and creating mashups of applications and/or content. With our innovative distributable architecture and our web-services extension model we will not only be able to continue to out pace the competition, but we will continue to do so even faster! This is evidenced by the huge groundswell of adoption of MindTouch Deki Wiki as is demonstrated by our staggering number of daily downloads and activity on our forums. Other vendors' numbers are not published, but I believe it's safe to say that MindTouch Deki Wiki has the fastest growing adoption rate of any wiki engine. If I'm wrong, I encourage any other wiki vendor to present evidence. Check the facts for yourself.
If you haven't already, download Deki Wiki. It's free, forever and it installs in minutes. Oh, and there are support plans available.
If you would like to learn how easy it is to extend Deki Wiki with external application we've provided a document on this topic. Of course, it's in a wiki; so, feel free to add your own experiences and comments.
categories: MindTouch
I downloaded Deki Wiki yesterday and Yes I agree it is a great tool, but there are some glaring issues.
No up to date documentation.
Email fails to send. There is no where to add a SMTP server to send it too.
The add on like LDAP authentication etc seem difficult to install.
I like the idea and what you have done so far is very good. Keep up the good work!
Please advise me how I address the above.
Comment by Nigel Bowen — August 29, 2007 @ 8:33 pm
Thanks for the comments Nigel. It sounds like you might be installing from source code. Consider using the pre-configured VM (click download here: http://wiki.mindtouch.com). This installs in about 5 minutes and it will likely resolve most of your headaches relating to configuring the system yourself. Deki Wiki is pretty sophisticated and has a lot of moving parts. If you are already using the VM check your junk mail. The Deki Wiki VM sends email without any configuration required.
There’s a lot of documentation for Deki Wiki at our developer community http://www.opengarden.org. If you have specific questions you can post them to the community forums at OpenGarden.org. Alternatively you might consider purchasing a support plan. With a commercial support plan MindTouch can afford to help you directly. The plans are very affordable. Learn more here: http://wiki.mindtouch.com/Deki_Wiki/Deki_Wiki_Support_Pricing
Thanks for your interest in MindTouch Deki Wiki.
Comment by AaronF — September 3, 2007 @ 1:15 am