So I’m on the lookout for something, but I don’t know how to briefly describe it. I want something to help me document various projects at work. It’s not uncommon for me to spend a week setting something up, and it works for 2 years and then has a problem – and I have to re-learn everything about it from the ground up before I can start solving it. For example, I’m setting up a new VMWare server today, and I just know I’m going to forget some of the details on it – so I want to be able to type out some of the specs and processes, maybe use some tags, a coupel hyperlinks to more info, and be able to search for it a year from now. Does that make sense? Anybody have any suggestions?
If you end up doing a wiki do consider DokuWiki vs something more complex to manager like MediaWiki. I like Doku because it’s simple and doesn’t even need a database because it stores the pages as files on disk (so worst case you can at least read the markup in a text editor if your wiki itself breaks). With just a few plugins you can add support for markdown, templates, tags, and more.