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Google Sites Wiki for Idiots

PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
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I'm trying to:

1: Educate people on how to do research from scratch, which needs more linking to websites and contacts and other online stuff than actual explanatory text. A document full of hyperlinks is inconvenient, so I thought what would be better is organized Web pages of link repositories with accompanying notes: a wiki.

2: allow people to contribute to this site easily if they have zero programming know how and don't want to learn. If the wiki was somehow linked to Google Drive, that would be neat. I just need cloud stuff.

3: Do it for free for a restricted user base. Google sites seems like that?

Have I got it wrong? If not, I don't need much help: just point me to a good template and instructional course and I'm good to go. Googling just gives me weird barebones instructions, and I don't want to waste time on bum templates.

‮Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Does your company have a website? You could self host a wiki for this instead (not sure if google sites has the capabilities for that). I doubt google drive will work.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Does your company have a website? You could self host a wiki for this instead (not sure if google sites has the capabilities for that). I doubt google drive will work.

    I could go through IT, but it's not going to be a huge public thing. Just a private website that forgoes the pain of folder navigation and Ctrl-clicking. I don't think I have enough clout to get an IT person to jump through the hoops with me. This is a university/hospital setting. What do you think?

    ‮Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Does your company have a website? You could self host a wiki for this instead (not sure if google sites has the capabilities for that). I doubt google drive will work.

    I could go through IT, but it's not going to be a huge public thing. Just a private website that forgoes the pain of folder navigation and Ctrl-clicking. I don't think I have enough clout to get an IT person to jump through the hoops with me. This is a university/hospital setting. What do you think?

    I dunno maybe, shouldn't be too huge of a deal to set you up with a folder on IIS or apache so you can set up a wiki.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    Ok, any favorite wiki things or should I just emulate wikipedia

    ‮Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • DaenrisDaenris Registered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Does your company have a website? You could self host a wiki for this instead (not sure if google sites has the capabilities for that). I doubt google drive will work.

    I could go through IT, but it's not going to be a huge public thing. Just a private website that forgoes the pain of folder navigation and Ctrl-clicking. I don't think I have enough clout to get an IT person to jump through the hoops with me. This is a university/hospital setting. What do you think?

    Are there any existing solutions for courses/etc websites at the university? Probably worth at least asking IT as it may be easy/painless if they already have stuff set up.

    I work at a university hospital and the university has an online course website system. They extend it to all users/departments so we just set up a course site for our lab to house some central resources.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    Ok, any favorite wiki things or should I just emulate wikipedia

    https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki is the one most like wikipedia

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    Daenris wrote: »
    Paladin wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Does your company have a website? You could self host a wiki for this instead (not sure if google sites has the capabilities for that). I doubt google drive will work.

    I could go through IT, but it's not going to be a huge public thing. Just a private website that forgoes the pain of folder navigation and Ctrl-clicking. I don't think I have enough clout to get an IT person to jump through the hoops with me. This is a university/hospital setting. What do you think?

    Are there any existing solutions for courses/etc websites at the university? Probably worth at least asking IT as it may be easy/painless if they already have stuff set up.

    I work at a university hospital and the university has an online course website system. They extend it to all users/departments so we just set up a course site for our lab to house some central resources.

    Maybe. I'm not going for a syllabus / SharePoint look though, unless I can front-end it with a wiki interface.

    ‮Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • DaenrisDaenris Registered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    Daenris wrote: »
    Paladin wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Does your company have a website? You could self host a wiki for this instead (not sure if google sites has the capabilities for that). I doubt google drive will work.

    I could go through IT, but it's not going to be a huge public thing. Just a private website that forgoes the pain of folder navigation and Ctrl-clicking. I don't think I have enough clout to get an IT person to jump through the hoops with me. This is a university/hospital setting. What do you think?

    Are there any existing solutions for courses/etc websites at the university? Probably worth at least asking IT as it may be easy/painless if they already have stuff set up.

    I work at a university hospital and the university has an online course website system. They extend it to all users/departments so we just set up a course site for our lab to house some central resources.

    Maybe. I'm not going for a syllabus / SharePoint look though, unless I can front-end it with a wiki interface.

    The one we had has a lot of general functionality including wiki's, email lists, shared file space, and websites, as well as more traditionally class oriented stuff.

  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    Well if any affiliated staff can get one, I'll try and see how it goes. My primary worry is that the wiki interface will be too cumbersome for normal people to update.

    ‮Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    I like DokuWiki a lot if you don't need the whole kitchen sink you get with MediaWiki.

  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    I like DokuWiki a lot if you don't need the whole kitchen sink you get with MediaWiki.

    Exactly what I was looking for, thanks. I'm excited. Now to practice my IT puppy dog eyes routine

    ‮Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
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