Splitreflection's webserver is a mess. An ugly mess, for what it's worth. We have piles of legacy content in all manner of formats including html, .doc, plaintext, pdf, etc, and none of it is organized in a useful way. I installed the MoinMoin wiki software in the hopes that it would help, and it has... but not as much as I had hoped. So now our legacy documents include wiki pages as well.
This page is intended as a discussion of how to solve the problem. As I see it, any solution should have the following capabilities:
- Importing legacy documents
- Simple online creation and editing of documents
- Automatic page formatting
- Automatic categorization and organization
- Manual categorization and organization
Here's a more specific list of features I think will be handy:
- Page format templating
- Organization templating
- Automatic hyperlinking (first instance per page only) to other pages, either local or on a specific site list
- Compiling/Building/Baking/whatever to generate static html files for publication
- Embedding of active content into static html files - probably using AJAX technology
- Automatic periodic rebuild of static files where appropriate
- Automatic category 'weighting' to make popular (most edited, most viewed) pages more prominent and easier to find
