Any internet user must have come across Wikipedia the biggest free encyclopedia. On Wikipedia any user can create or edit
content listed on Wikipedia. This is biggest encyclopedia managed my millions of users.
If you also want to start a project similar to Wikipedia for your own website, your company for internal knowledge management, or any topic what ever you want you can do with the help of Wiki software. There are plenty of free and paid Wiki software/web scripts available. Why not use software which Wikipedia use.
MediaWiki is free web based Wiki software which is written on PHP and use MySQL or PostgreSQL as database. On MediaWiki you can attach extensions to provide additional functionality.
On MediaWiki you can easily modify pages and you can (temporarily) publish dummy sentences, and you can even (temporarily) completely destroy a page in a wiki. You don’t need to have any programming skills to do this.
September 7, 2009
Compliments to raise the general awareness to Wikis as collaboration and project management tools. Not sure the requirements of a company intranet are in line with a Wikipedia-style wiki but maybe I am too influenced by our own, “telepark.wiki”. By the way, an excellent resource to compare and find the right wiki is http://www.wikimatrix.org/