The Definitions of CMS, WCMS, ECM, RM and DMS are very similar and can be easily confused. Below you will find clear definitions of these terms that you could use as a quick reference:
Content management (CM) is a set of processes and technologies that support the evolutionary life cycle of digital information. This digital information is often referred to as content or, to be precise, digital content. Digital content may take the form of text, such as documents, multimedia files, such as audio or video files, or any other file type which follows a content lifecycle which requires management.
A Content Management System (CMS) is a system used to organize and facilitate collaborative content creation. Recently, the term has been used specifically to refer to programs on WWW servers, but it can also refer to hardware devices that manage documents on a large network.
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Here’s a list of the top 6 wiki software, in my humble opinion:
- MediaWiki: Used by the WikiPedia project, which is one of the most popular wikis (PHP and MySql).
- PhpWiki: A very popular PHP Wiki based on UseModWiki (PHP).
- TWiki: A powerful, skinnable, extensive Perl wiki, aimed at large corporate Intranets (Perl).
- TikiWiki: more than a wiki, has everything content management with a powerful Wiki (PHP).
- PmWiki: A popular Wiki, easy installation, simple design, nice feature list (PHP).
- MoinMoin: A Python wiki engine, features flexibility and modular design (Python).
CMS & Wikis
Top Wikis
It is undeniable that choosing a content management system depends on a variety of criteria that depends on the scope of your project. Choosing a CMS can be a long and difficult process, especially since there is a large number of content management systems available. In Europe alone, you have around 500 systems to choose from. Some of these CMS solutions are very similar and comparing them will require taking hundreds of variables into consideration.
The good news is, whether you are looking to manage content in a large corporation, university, non-profit organization, a small business or even a government agency, there is likely a well suited Open Source CMS solution for you.
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CMS, Drupal, SilverStripe, TYPO3, WikiMedia WYSIWYG Editor, WordPress, XOOPS
As explained in an earlier post, as of today, no fully functional and bug free WYSIWYG editor exists for MediaWiki and all the other wikis that support a WYSIWYG are not developed with PHP or do not utilize the MySQL database.
In my opinion, if you are looking for a PHP wiki that utilizes a database like MySQL, Mediawiki is your most feature-rich and mature wiki from the bunch and I’d go with that.
Development to integrate MediaWiki with a visual editor has started using both FCKeditor and TinyMCE. The FCKeditor solution is less developed for MediaWiki than the TinyMCE solution which functions better but remains buggy.
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CMS, Drupal, WikiMedia WYSIWYG Editor
Choosing one wiki engine for your encyclopedia or CMS project can be really difficult. I know. In my search, I had to look for and try so many wikis that it was all overwhelming. in this post I’ve complied a list of all the wikis out there. Yeas all of them; at least as of today ;) and there are Ninety Nine wikis.
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CMS, WikiMedia WYSIWYG Editor
Everyone can contribute to the free encylopedia Wikipedia. This is possible because Wikipedia is a wiki: Simply click on the link “Edit this page“ on top of an article and start writing.
This cheatsheet shows the basic formatting tricks and is very handy.
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I’ve owned a wiki website that ran the WikiMedia engine (as does WikiPedia.org) for over a year. Over that year, I modified the wiki skin (i.e. theme) and added Google Adsense ad units. I also added some JavaScript code and invested time in learning the wiki syntax. I created many regular plain wiki pages and other colorful pages with tables and templates. I also wrote help documents explaining the wiki syntax and went further by creating a page that users could use to easily create new page/articles by simply typing in a text box and clicking a button.
I have recently decided to abandon using a wiki and instead to use a CMS solution.
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WikiMedia WYSIWYG Editor
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