I have been using DekiWiki for about one and half months now and have been writing extensions (mostly in PHP [my preferred web scripting language]) to integrate our CRM with the Wiki for fun and profit.
So in short;
- + It's not bad for a business orientated wiki. All the features you expect are there. Id say perfect for a non-techie (providing you install with the VMImage).
- + The built in extensions are quite neat and reasonable reliable providing you dont try and do anything too interesting with them.
- + The support on the forum is very friendly and helpful
- + PageBus is very snazzy and allows "live" components on the page to communicate dynamically.
- - It's a hideous Frankenstein mix of C# and PHP. IMHO it doesnt seem to work all that well. Purely PHP would do the same job and give you much more control.
- - In my short time using it, the C# side has been no end of problems causing the whole site to hang, and making building additional extensions a nightmare.
- - Reusing the pre-existing extensions from your own extensions seems at this stage impossible. (At least when writing PHP extensions, perhaps with C# too)
- - Their custom scripting language DekiScript is horrible and seems unneccessary considering its built on top of a much nicer scripting language PHP
So in summary... use it... but only if you don't want to hack extra stuff onto it.
