We are very happy with Confluence at UCLA.  It supports the wiki 
metaphor of a pool of labeled/tagged documents with a hierarchical 
directory-like structure, so you don't have to choose between the two 
models.  Although I usually edit pages in the wiki markup view, many of 
our users prefer the very friendly gui.

Academic pricing is 50% of the regular license for a local version. If 
you want to avoid the effort of administering your own server, you can 
sign up for Altassian's hosted service called On-Demand, although I'm 
not sure if the discount applies.

--Gary

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On 7/24/2012 3:33 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:
> You might want to look at Atlasssian Confluence. They offer free
> licenses to non-profit and edu.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cary
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Stuart Yeates <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> The wiki software with the largest user base is undoubtedly media wiki (i.e. wikiepdia).
>>
>> We're moving to it as a platform precisely because to leverage the skills that implies.
>>
>> We're not far enough into our roll out to tell whether it's going to be a success
>>
>> cheers
>> stuart
>>
>> Stuart Yeates
>> Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nathan Tallman
>> Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2012 8:34 a.m.
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Wikis
>>
>> There are a plethora of options for wiki software. Does anyone have any
>> recommendations for a platform that's easy-to-use and has a low-learning
>> curve for users? I'm thinking of starting a wiki for internal best
>> practices, etc. and wondered what people who've done the same had success
>> with.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nathan
>
>