I am very curious as to why people would even want to install a wiki on their 
own machines (Windows or otherwise).  

To me, the main benefit of a wiki is that it is a shared repository of 
knowledge to which everyone has access. Such a wiki would be installed and 
maintained by the IT support team (or local guru, perhaps) on a server.  Access 
is then as simple as "open your browser"! No barrier to entry at all.


I think that for private note taking people are already using tools like 
Evernote or OneNote and I cannot see a "local" wiki replacing them.

>>> Jason Morris <[email protected]> 02/08/16 10:22 AM >>>

I tried (without success) to get people using JSPWiki internally in our faculty 
(Agriculture and Environment at the University of Sydney). At first, the 
majority were all gung-ho about using a wiki.. that was no problem. The barrier 
to entry was that they expected it to install like installing MS Word or 
something. Just a "one-shot and it just works" experience. As soon as I 
explained that they had to first install a servlet container (what's a 
servlet??!?!!) and fill out all this configuration stuff, they quickly lost 
interest. 



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