I’m very excited to report that Linux Magazine’s April, 2008 issue includes an article about MindTouch Deki Wiki. The article speaks very highly of Deki Wiki. The author, Scott Granneman, definitely did his research. It seems he teaches a course on wikis and on social software at Washington University in St. Louis. He apparently has selected MindTouch Deki Wiki as his wiki of choice. In describing Deki Wiki he states:

Deki Wiki is an open source (under the GNU General Public license version 2) wiki created and overseen by  MindTouch, an open source software company. Starting out life as a fork of MediaWiki, Deki Wiki is now a powerful alternative, written, interestingly, using a combination of C#/Mono for the backend and PHP for the interface. The software is free to download and use, but if you want support from MindTouch, plans are available starting at $495.

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Deki Wiki allows editors to use Extensions to embed dynamic content into their wiki pages. Several are included out of the box with Deki Wiki, including ones that enable embedding Flickr slideshows, Google Maps, Graphviz graphs, Yahoo! stocks, and math formulas. You can even use ImageMagick server side to manipulate graphics, which would be a boon to most users…

Granneman goes on to cite “other great features”, a couple of these are:

• The ability to organize pages into dynamic navigational hierarchies. One of the biggest problems with is the flat “just link to it” navigational structure they all seem to enforce. Deki Wiki breaks out of that mold with a real live navigation system.
• XML storage for all wiki pages means easier integration with other web services and apps.
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Granneman cites a few “other great features” and provides several URLs for Deki Wiki resources. You can really tell he did his research. If you’d like to read the full article I encourage you to pick up the April issue of Linux Mag, it’s a great publication. Alternatively, you can download and read this PDF version of the article.

categories: Awards and Coverage, MindTouch