As I said in my previous posts I choose dokuwiki because I felt wikis have the best platforms for knowledge management. Downloading and installation of dokuwiki was kind of straight with no "hiccups". I then read some of the manuals online to have a good understanding of the various interfaces and environments. Afterwards, I started adding contents to my wiki. I also changed the template (skin) and the logo.

In dokuwiki, there are two ways of installing plugins. First, by just copying the link of the plungin’s web page into the manage plugin tab then downloading and installation of the plugin is done automatically. The other method is the usual technique of downloading it and transferring the file into the appropriate folder on the server. I installed a variety of plugins.

Youtube- This plugin is just like other youtube plugins we have installed on other tools. It creates a link and embeds a YouTube movie in a Wiki page. User can embed movies just input the movie ID with simple syntax.

Contact- This plugin creates a form in dokuwiki to enable users contact the administrator or author. You can insert more than one email addresses as recipients.

Color- This plugin enables you to have texts in different colors in dokuwiki with simple tags and texts in between them.

Countdown- With this plugin you can insert a countdown into your page where it will display the number of days until or since the text that you include.

Doodle- This plugin can help your team to schedule meetings or making other decisions in a team. I used it to create a scenario of which antivirus users use.

Permissioninfo- This plugin shows which groups exist, what their namespace and page permissions are and which users are in which groups. Additionally, it shows the namespace and page permissions for each user - derived from the groups the user is in.

Logstats- This plugin provides logging and statistics on views and visitors of your wiki. It stores the username, ip address, page visited and other information. It stores this file in root/dokuwiki/data/access.log.

Tag Plugin- the Tag Plugin lets you assign category tags to wiki pages. It will display a list of links to the tag pages in the tag namespace specified in the configuration.

Cloud Plugin- This is a very simple plugin that shows a cloud of the most frequently used words in your wiki. This plugin can also make a tag cloud (tag plugin must be installed).

Wikistatistics- A plugin that shows users and the number of editing done.

I added spice to my wiki, by using it as a blog. This functionality can be useful in scenarios where you want individuals to comment on a topic. By creating a heading as a topic (first comment) and then other comment comes below it as sub-headings. I really enjoyed working on dokuwiki, I was tempted to continue installing plugins and creating different pages but I had to stop.  In sum, dokuwiki was relative easy, and I think it’s a great tool for knowledge management.