Hi everybody, first post here.
I've been trying to set up a wiki within my SME (i'm an employee). I've read a lot on wiki engine, and decided to settle with Dokuwiki because it is simple to set up, it has internalisation, is FOSS, and has a WYSIWYG editor.
My colleagues are definitely not "tech savy", and I know that if I want to trigger a change from "email culture" to "wiki culture", I need a bridge between the two.
What I have been desesperatly looking for is:
- a way to create an article directly from an email
- a way to use Dokuwiki as some sort of "email archive", in particular to ease the integration of all the knowledge that is burried in mailbox currently (email to client, attached documents, and so forth).
- for this two things, a way to "mass upload" (i.e. bulk copy/paste via FTP, or any way to scale up the input process).
I've found the "mail2page" plugin, but it's kind of "raw" to me. I'm a newbie, and the wiki is on a shared hosted machine. I have not figured out how this module work, but I understand that I somehow need to append an email to the command line php script to get it inputed in the wiki, and I'm afraid I can't do this on a shared hosted machine. A simplier way to deal with this would be welcomed (or a step by step how to ?).
I've also found that I can had the "eml" type in the "mime.conf", but this only allows me to add an eml as a file (and to download it). What i'm looking for is a way to add an eml directly as a page. This way I could mass upload a bunch of emails via FTP. I know that I could go through html / txt (i.e. export all emails to either html or txt), but then I would loose the attachment.
Any thoughts on this ?
I'm actually quite surprised that this "bridge" between email and wiki is not a major feature of most wiki engines, as it is (in my opinion) a much needed feature to allow "newbie" users to rapidly switch from an email approach to a wiki approach, without too much overhead for the initial "input phase".
The approaching solutions that I've found so far are the "Mail-in" function from the Tikiwiki engine (
http://doc.tiki.org/Mail-in) and the "EmailToWiki" extension for mediawiki (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension%3AEmailToWiki), but both are not trivial to set up. I tried them already without much result, and I would prefer to stick to the flat-files database from DW.