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Introducing Documize: Upload Word Documents, Get Back a Wiki (Open Source)

20 pointsby HarveyKandolaover 10 years ago

6 comments

davidy123over 10 years ago
Is this really a &quot;wiki&quot; or is it an online document editor? It&#x27;s easy to create the basics of a &quot;wiki,&quot; and while reliably importing documents into a wiki isn&#x27;t easy, it&#x27;s just a starting point. The important features of a Wikipedia (Mediawiki) are an emphasis on links within the site, the ability to view changes across the site, changes on one page, and to see how a page was composed in clean markup, the clean markup also preventing behind the scenes jumbly messes of &quot;structure.&quot; Missing any of these points loses a vital aspect of wikis. The category structure and templates are also important features, supporting what in Wikipedia&#x27;s case is a strong support community that can go well beyond what a formulated menu structure can offer. (Mediawiki has emphatically refused to implement any kind of fine grained access model, this is one area other wikis have advantages.)<p>But now people expect more, they don&#x27;t want to be forced to use markup and they want to simultaneously edit documents in a rich editor, in a social setting where its easy to find and connect with other contributors. This is the current focus of Wikipedia and while other efforts have their own strengths, not connecting finely to Wikipedia&#x27;s developments is, to me anyway, missing the greatest element of development.
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HarveyKandolaover 10 years ago
Documize co-founder here. Would love some initial feedback on our new startup, Documize.<p>Documize is targeting enterprises who have mountains of Word documents full of intel and know-how that people struggle to find and maintain. Running a couple of pilots at the moment.<p>Dual licensing approach supporting open source and commercial. Public beta coming soon. Expect freemium&#x2F;paid plans (SaaS) and commercial support plans (on premise).<p>Tech stack: Go, Angular, MySQL (Windows, Linux, OSX)
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walterbellover 10 years ago
Cool demo video. At first it sounded like gibberish, then words started coming into focus, by the end I was amazed at the density of information being communicated.
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gurisinghover 10 years ago
The start is always one the most difficult part. So congrats for getting at this stage.<p>I like the idea and just signed up for the beta!
saarcover 10 years ago
Congratulations, love the idea of converting my docs to wiki. The rap video is awesome!
33522vover 10 years ago
A perfect tool, this is great!