Categories   MindTouch

Is that XML in your wiki?

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Every so often, I get the question of “why would anybody want to store XML in a wiki?” Granted, this question is usually brought up by a competitor rather than by a customer. At first brush, XML just makes things more complicated, but this perception quickly dissipates as your collaboration turns into automation turns into [...]

Categories   Awards and Press|Dream

10 Tips for a Successful Wiki

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Yesterday I was alerted by an intriguing post, 10 Tips for a Successful Wiki by James Everett on his blog, Brain of James. James recommends MindTouch Deki and calls it “an impressive piece of software”. His visualization was showcased at the Game Developer Conference 2008 (pictured right). You can read his 10 tips below or [...]

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MindTouch Deki Express (wik.is) EC2 Migration

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Last week we completed the migration of MindTouch Deki Express (aka wik.is) to the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). We’ve been seeing great growth from our Express offering lately, and we wanted to make sure we continued to offer the great uptime and performance our users have come to expect. A ton of work went [...]

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MindTouch Deki Wiki Selected Sourceforge.net Project of the Month

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I’m really proud to report MindTouch Deki Wiki was selected as the Sourceforge.net Project of the Month for the month of May. SourceForge.net: Project of the Month, May 2008 What is the software’s intended audience? The vast majority (more than 90%) of our users deploy behind a firewall. We’ve seen great adoption by IT guys, [...]

Categories   MindTouch|Tutorial

Deki Wiki SEO optimizations

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Wikis are one of the most searched web mediums of today which is an expected occurrence because of the breadth of rich contextual information. Although the leading search engines emphasize actual context over meta data there are many search engines that still rely on meta data to classify and rank pages. For this reason we [...]