[wiki-research] Wiki Engines as CMS

[Andreas Gohr]

Chuck Smith writes:

> Anyway, I think it might be an interesting research project to compare
> wiki engines from a CMS point of view.  So far I've heard of/seen the
> following wiki engines used as a CMS:
> 
> JSPWiki
> TWiki
> PmWiki
>
> 
> I think MediaWiki would not have the flexibility to run as a CMS, but
> I could be mistaken.  Are there any other wikis known for being
> flexible enough to also run as a CMS?  Also, feel free to view the
> wiki popularity charts (by Google) I made a few months ago:
> http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/WikiPopularity

In theory every "themable" Wiki could be used as CMS, but it's easyier in 
some engines. Many DokuWiki users (including my self) use DokuWiki as CMS 
for their website. We recently added a feature which allows a user to 
disable certain Wiki-Typical functions not wanted in a CMS. Eg. a list of 
old revisions, or the recent changes.

There are some (slightly outdated) infos available at

http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:discussion:wiki_cms and
http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:experiences:websitecms

Examples of DokuWiki as CMS/Blog:

http://www.splitbrain.org
http://www.anci.ch
http://krone-neuenburg.de

Especially the last one is interesting because it really looks like an 
ordinary website used by non-technical folks. Only looking at the 
HTML-Source will reveal the Wiki-Engine behind it.

Hope this helps,

Andi