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Why Deki Wiki?

Deki Wiki not just an award winning and easy to use web application for sharing, it's also a platform. Deki Wiki is similar to CMS web frameworks like Drupal, Mambo, Joomla and DotNetNuke, but a wiki in nature; therefore making it community-centric and significantly easier for end-users to participate. Also, it has a complete application programming interface (API) for programmers and extending Deki Wiki can be done in any programming language.

Great Interface and WYSIWYG Editing

­Just take a look at Deki Wiki. Not only is it intuitive and easy to use, it's actually fun! Edit a page. You'll immediately notice that Deki Wiki has a WYSIWYG, or rich text, editor similar to a light-weight word processor. There is no arcane or non-standard markup language. You can copy/paste from office documents or other web pages. Linking is as easy as selecting the text and navigating to the page or attachment you wish to link. You need not memorize the path or learn a new language. Adding content to Deki Wiki is accessible to users of any technical skill level. However, If you are a power user you'll appreciate the fact you can toggle the editor to the XHTML mode and edit this directly.

Pages and Files

Creating pages and attaching files is just a click away. Users of Deki Wiki can attach documents and images to individual pages. Images are presented in an attractive image gallery. At a glance you one can see who edited pages or attached files, when it was done, and read a description of the action that is automatically generated or manually provided..

Nothing is ever lost in Deki Wiki. Every edit is tracked and versioned. Users can compare versions of pages. Similarly, file attachments are versioned. When a user links to a file the link will always point to the most recent version of the attached file. Likewise, if a user renames a page all links to this page will be properly maintained.

Permissions

Deki Wiki has one of the most advanced permission systems available. Deki Wiki administrators can make wikis public or private, anonymous or not. There is user groups support. Users can permission entire hierarchies to create private or non-editable workspaces or permission single pages. Deki Wiki has built in support for LDAP, Active Directory, Drupal, Wordpress, and Joomla.

Finding and Organizing Content

Deki Wiki provides many ways to organize content. Hierarchies allow users to define a taxonomy of pages. This is a very natural way to organize things. Everyone understands a family tree.

Deki Wiki also allows tagging. Tag folksonomies are wonderfully useful when using systems with multiple users. With Deki Wiki a user can use key word tags, date and time tags, and define tag categories.

As users add content to Deki Wiki the time the content is added is tracked. There are many ways to browse content chronologically. We call these chronologies. Users can follow recent changes chronologically throughout an entire wiki site, on a per page basis, or based on individual users' contributions. This makes it very easy to discover content and track what's going on in the wiki. Date and time tags also provide another way of organizing and finding information chronologically.

If users are especially interested in some pages they can create a  watchlist of pages. With a watchlist it's easy to track topics of interest or pet projects.

Another of the many ways Deki Wiki is unique is that it comes with an enterprise strength search engine named Lucene. Lucene is developed by the Apache Foundation. Lucene is a powerful search engine that is employed by many high performance enterprise-class search tools. Deki Wiki uses Lucene to index all pages and most common file types. Finding what you're looking for in pages, files or tags is just a search away with Deki Wiki.

Subscribe! Deki Wiki generates RSS feeds in a number of ways. Users may subscribe to the entire wiki site, individual users' contributions, their watchlist, or the watchlists' of other users.

Communicating and Connecting

Deki Wiki provides several ways to connect with other users. Every users has their own profile page. This is an easy way for users to share information about themselves, their interests, and their content.

Users may also embed chat clients into pages. This makes it possible for them to speak real-time about the contents of pages or the wiki as a whole.

Every page has a comments section. This is useful for commenting on the contents of a page or simply leaving another user a message.

Aggregating Content

Give your users the power to create dynamic interactive websites.

Deki Wiki is a great tool for organizing all types of content from many different places. It has a built in RSS reader, embedded video support, Flickr integration, widget support, and much more. A user can very quickly build a page of information using almost any type of content from almost any source and do so such that the page dynamically updates. Look at the Deki Wiki "Hayes" Release page for inspiration.

For Developers and Admins: The Platform

Extending Deki Wiki is simple. Thanks to Deki Wiki's innovative web-services extension model developers can extend Deki Wiki using any programming language they like! The platform is entirely language agnostic. A programmer writes an application, exposes through a web-service, and registers the service in Deki Wiki's control panel. Voila! Users now may invoke this application as if it were a part of Deki Wiki. Because it's all done through web-services the application can be running anywhere, even another computer.

Deki Wiki has a complete bi-directional API. We built Deki Wiki using this API. This means anything Deki Wiki can do is accessible through the API; therefore you can add wiki capabilities to existing applications. Or you can build entirely new applications using Deki Wiki's API.

Deki Wiki is implemented in C# on Mono or .Net. In case you're new to Mono it's an open source project that makes it possible to develop and run .Net client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. This means Deki Wiki is platform independent.

Multiple templating and skinning support provides an easy way for designers to customize the user interface and user experience. We also provide a useful wire frame skin that makes understanding the structure of the application's interface significantly easier. Deki Wiki may already have a gorgeous interface, but it's been designed to make customization easy.

Other features you'll love:

• Code syntax highlighting
• Latex support
• Graphing
• 100% standard compliant
• LDAP, AD, Drupal, Joomla, and Wordpress authentication extensions
• more...

Who Uses Deki Wiki?

Deki Wiki has thousands of users with hundreds more deploying daily. Leading organizations such as Microsoft, British Petroleum, Harvard and Stanford Universities are already using Deki Wiki in wide-ranging applications, including collaboration portals, intranets, and interactive web sites. Given its extensible web-services architecture, developers are creating collaborative applications with Deki Wiki and using it as an integration platform for many disparate applications, databases, or for social media sites.

People are Talking

"A huge value added aspect of Deki Hayes is its potential for non-technical end users to create content and application mashups." - Kristen Nicole, Mashable.

"I feel [Deki Wiki] is the next big step in Wiki. Instead of relying exclusively on text, Steve Bjorg and Aaron Fulkerson are turning the Wiki into a web services platform." - Steve Spalding, How to Split an Atom

"While I had expected the usual addition of widgets into the wiki platform, I was in for a surprise. [..] Hayes, comes with a powerful new service-oriented extension model. [..] customers can now have access to composite applications by federating applications or data across without bothering about the OS, code language,…" - Vivek Puri, StartupSquad.

Additional Resources

• Deki Wiki API
• Deki Wiki list of features
• User manual
• Releases