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Deki Wiki is a free scalable and programmable open source wiki and applicationplatform. With the new release, Deki Wiki extends the ability for communities andbusinesses to deploy enterprise-class custom applications and mashups.
The new release makes it easier to extend the platform for almost any environmentwith the addition of a built-in scripting engine. It eliminates the need to use aseparate programming environment to add widgets, external services, or javascriptlibraries to Deki Wiki. Now extensions can be developed entirely in Deki Wiki as ifthey were a natural part of the platform.
The company s dekiscript makes it easier for site admins to customize interactionwithin the wiki and external applications as well as simplifying and extending theability to create mashups.
The extensive open source platform also offers seamless Dapper integration,providing the ability to create dapps that query the Internet as one giantdatabase directly from within the wiki. This enables the ability to create newmashups that leverage web services, widgets and applications to improve how peopleobtain and interact with data.
For example, admins can quickly create a dapp that queries particular stats fromaround the Web, which can feed into Google Charts for a visible display of thereal-time results.
Deki Wiki also features native support for Amazon S3, which automatically stores allfile attachments in the cloud. And on S3, all files are versioned, searchable,and previewable with the inclusion of ThinkFree, an alternative Web-based suite forviewing MS Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
The addition of multi-tenant support now makes it possible to run thousands of wikiswith a single setup.
One inherent challenge with wikis has been edit conflicts, which occur when one userattempts to edit a page, but another user has already modified it. MindTouch s newmerge engine does word-level analysis to merge edit conflicts and formattingchanges, making tedious corrections a thing of the past.
The new wiki is available in nine languages with the recent addition of Japanese,Polish, and Spanish with all languages contributed by the company s OpenGardencommunity of gardeners.
Click here to watch a demo video of thenew features.
About Deki Wiki
Unlike other wikis, Deki Wiki is an easy to use solution to create, organize,aggregate, mashup and share information while also leveraging the benefits of theopen source community. It s a platform for creating collaborative applications thatconnect wikis to an existing software or workflow infrastructure, enhancingproductivity across applications and workgroups.
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About MindTouchFounded in 2005 and based in San Diego, Calif., MindTouch (wiki.mindtouch.com) is anopen source wiki platform company.
MindTouch wiki communities and are deployed by small to large enterprises, researchinstitutions, government agencies, media companies and online communities worldwide,including Microsoft, Fujitsu, British Petroleum, San Diego Union Tribune and manymore.
The company is actively engaged in the open source wiki community and is dedicatedto cultivating ideas and solutions through its unique OpenGarden project(www.opengarden.org).
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