OT: knowledgebase application

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 18:02 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:26:12PM -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:
> >    I am looking for a simple knowbase application to use for my IT
> >    department at work.  Right now we are looking at phpbb which is good
> >    but I not too sure how good of a knowledge base it would make.  I have
> >    googled around but would like some opinions from you all.
> 
> A wiki would probably be a better knowledgebase than a forum system. 
> 
> Try MediaWiki. I set it up for documentation in my previous workplace, and
> it worked very well.
> 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/

We use a wiki for this too, in our case "moin".

Both moin and mediawiki are available in Extras.

Paul.