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Does anyone know of (first-hand experience is especially appreciated) any wiki software out there that is specifically designed to help document/discuss software development? We don't need anything complicated; we really just want something that we can easily drop code into without losing formatting. Code highlighting on the front-end is also a huge plus!

ebola

the closest thing i can think of is doxygen. im sure software, esp. game companies, have their own inhouse doc system, probably with wikis but they arent gonna be gpl

Governor

I'm not opposed to a proprietary system if it gets the job done, but I'll take a look at doxygen.

ebola

i reread your post, and now i think it might not be a good fit. doxygen requires you to make formatted comments in your code, then it parses the code to link all of it together into an api sort of manual. basically, its strictly documentation and helps keep programmers in the same style. what i think you want is something that you can manually copy and paste code in have ppl come look at it and comment on it. sorry about that. what you need then is mediawiki, which i believe is free and open source, and use extensions or write your own extension. theres a huge community support for it http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions

i ran through it quickly to give u a few that might be useful

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Sy...Highlight_GeSHi
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ASHighlight
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AWC%27s_Forum
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AddScript
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Whos_online
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Contributors
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RestrictiveRights
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Strip_Markup

ive never personally used it, but i worked under a project lead that used mediawiki and its pretty much a private wikipedia style wiki that u can mess with

Governor

Yeah, I found that out

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Mediawiki is always a fallback. It's definitely extreme overkill for what we need, but with the help of extensions it can do what we want. I've configured it before (which sucked a lot), so that is good.

fratersang

http://www.mindtouch.com/

ebola

I completely forgot about one I used on an OGRE project a while ago. http://trac.edgewall.org/

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