Comments on: I need a GOOD sharepoint Wiki template

By: Rachel Markus

Rachel Markus — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:25:00 +0000

Hi Ken
I have to agree with you. It’s only when you get this into the hands of end users that it really takes off. But they desperately need simple rich editors, plus templated instructions on how to write good wiki entries plus forced metadata. And we dont want to bury everything in word documents which are much easier to template, but harder to version control and less accessible. Microsoft or partners – get to it!!

By: Ken Puls

Ken Puls — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:38:30 +0000

Hi Scott,

That could work, but still seems like a lot of hassle. I want to get this into the hands of users who are not programmers, and having to get them to copy/paste HTML is… frightening to them. This shouldn’t really be that hard in my opinion.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:19:13 +0000

I wish I had stumbled across your site a long time ago to give you this tip. Create a hidden blog that everyone else will have read access to. Have them create the documentation in Word 2007 or 2010 and have them hit publish to blog. Go to the blog post and hit the button to edit the HTML directly. Highlight and copy all of that text. Go to the wiki page where you want that documentation to reside. Hit the button to edit the HTML. Paste the code. Hit OK. It is all there, pictures and everything, with the pictures aligned with the text the way you want it. Then do your regular editting to add the [[]] where you need it.

By: Mark Uden

Mark Uden — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:26:36 +0000

Telerik’s RadEditor Lite has slightly better text editing functionality and a much better image loader, plus it’s free. http://www.telerik.com/community/free-products.aspx

By: Kevin Davis

Kevin Davis — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:20:15 +0000

I’m the program manager responsible for SharePoint wikis. We’ve improved the wiki functionality dramatically in SharePoint 2010 which we just announced at our conference in Las Vegas.

Feel free to contact me with questions/feedback.

kevin.davis@microsoft.com

By: Ken Puls

Ken Puls — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:53:22 +0000

Thanks Conrad. I’ll check that out.

By: Conrad Roberts

Conrad Roberts — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:39:50 +0000

Have a look at Atlassian’s Confluence wiki product, I’m a big fan and they’ve recently introduced some degree of Sharepoint integration – http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint/

By: Dennis Wallentin

Dennis Wallentin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:51:18 +0000

Ken,

OK, I can see Your point but next time don’t blog about it

MOSS is the fastest growing server platform in Sweden and at the same time it’s the fastest growing server platform for the consultant business.

In general I would add a post in one of the publish Q&A forums available at the following URL:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/category/sharepoint/

So far I have found them extremly useful.

Kind regards,
Dennis

By: Ken Puls

Ken Puls — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:53:04 +0000

I disagree, Dennis. Part of my job is to research new software, and part of my job, as a manager, is to make sure that whatever I bring in will work for my staff. No point it getting something that’s useless. It actually took me longer to blog about the issues with the wiki than it did to get it up and running and work out what I didn’t like.

With regards to WSS, I actually did have a consultant install all the templates for me and give me a brief session on how to use them. For any hard-core development I would hire someone, but to me this shouldn’t fit into that category.

Granted, I did spend an hour online looking for templates. Again, researching software is what I’d consider part of my job, but also I’m curious if we can actually leverage this tool that Microsoft is so high on, and that we already own.

I’m a little surprised to find out that there isn’t someone selling a good wiki template, or at least if they are I can’t find one. Is all Sharepoint customization seriously done on a consultant by consultant basis right now? That just sounds extremely expensive to me…

By: Dennis Wallentin

Dennis Wallentin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:36:00 +0000

Ken et al,

Make it simpel for everyone; hire a reliable consultant that can do the job for You.

If You’re a manager and spend time with this kind of tasks then I wonder what You’re actually doing.

Kind regards,
Dennis