Options for Wiki WordPress

I would like to know my options for how best to use WordPress as a wiki. I tried Media Wiki, but the sheer amount of changes I need to make to code to make even trivial changes turned me off. Way off.

Googling doesn’t reveal much. What are the best options for using WP as a wiki? (This can be a community question discussing various options.)

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In particular, I would like something that addresses:

  • Links to non-existing pages actually link to a “create new page” page
  • Editing pages without going through /wp-admin/ (i.e. the back-end)
  • Searching/listing existing pages when linking (i.e. linking by title, not by URL)

What are my options?

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  1. First of all, WordPress is not a wiki. Wikis are a fundamentally different form of content management system (where anyone can manage information). WordPress is meant to publish content, wikis are meant to collaboratively develop content.

    Case-in-point, the WordPress project uses a wiki for Codex documents … but it runs MediaWiki rather than WordPress itself to do so.

    That said, you certainly can use WordPress to power a wiki … it just won’t be easy.

    Poking around on Google, I did manage to find these options for you:

  2. There area few plugins that extend wiki-functionality to WordPress.

    NOTE: I have not used any of the above plugins, so Your Mileage May Vary.

    I’m a big fan of wiki-as-concept for ease-of-use, and use PmWiki to power the main interface to my own site. I also like WordPress (obviously) for different reasons, and miss the PmWiki features when I’m inside of wp-admin [I’m actually developing a plugin to use my wiki as a markup engine inside of WP, but that doesn’t give access to the features you’re probably looking for, like revision history, links-create-new-pages, etc.]. There are actually some blog-extensions for PmWiki, but none of them match the power of WordPress.

    So, that being said — I may seem to be advocating “use the right tool for the right job”, as well.

    But in some cases, the right tool might be a plugin that gives you just the wiki-features you need inside of WordPress.