Maybe Lisa Dyer could elaborate on why her company chose to work with
Atlassian Confluence instead of the more prevalent open-source MediaWiki
or structured TWiki in her next blog entry.

Here are a couple of links for reference:
- Lisa Dyer's blog entry: http://tinyurl.com/6ra7f7
- Anne Gentle's blog entry with links to other resources:
http://tinyurl.com/5agre4
- The Sept 2007 issue of STC Intercom featured an article about structured
wiki using Twiki; STC members can login to access the Intercom archives
here: http://www.stc.org

All of these discuss some level of success going in. However, one wonders
as to the point of automating the process of getting stuff out.
Wiki-tagging is mainly for formatting, without any semantic data stored
with the text. This makes a solution worthwhile for note-taking and quick
corrections, but not for updating the actual source.

I'm looking at the possibilities of the recently started open-source
dita-to-web live output solution, especially if it could be used to
generate content in a discussion forum style much like the manual at
http://php.net.

-Tony


On Mon, June 23, 2008 09:23, JohnNSB wrote:
> I have scanned the previous discussions on the complexity (at the
> time) of taking DITA and converting it to a Wiki format, but still
> would like to know if anyone has been successful with this. My
> situation is that my company is replacing some KM and support portal
> functionality with a Wiki-based solution. Ideally I would be able to
> take my DITA content and publish it in this Wiki (MediaWiki) format.
> Any success? Links? Developers forums to which I should post?
> Thanks,
> John


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