If you know wordpress i would stick with it. additionally there are plugins
for wiki as well.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=wiki

and knowledge base functionality. (might have to investigate these for my
own use)

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=knowledgebase

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:

> On 2015-05-25 21:08, Nathan England wrote:
>>
>>> I have a project to store a lot of data. Articles, stories, and
>>> encyclopedia type stuff. My first thought was to use a wiki
>>> (wikimedia) as it makes the contents easily searchable, but what about
>>> other cms systems like wordpress?
>>>
>>
> Wordpress is generally more "centralized", as it puts the most recent blog
> posts up on the main page.  Whether you'd use it or a wiki really depends
> on what the users will be doing since there are things wikis do better than
> wordpress.  The default wordpress search seems to work OK.  Writing
> internal links using wordpress is more difficult than doing that in a wiki.
>
>  I am not familiar with wikimedia and its maintenance requirements.
>> I can say that WordPress does not require a lot of attention.
>>
>
> This depends greatly on the users.  Setting up a wiki and running it is
> not really difficult or resource-consuming if you don't have many users and
> none of them are actively trying to destroy the site.  If you have a bunch
> of active users, you're going to need moderators and handle the inevitable
> flame wars.  They come out with a new version of wordpress every couple of
> months, and updating usually doesn't break anything or take a lot of time.
> If you have comments enabled on wordpress, you will need to periodically
> get rid of the spam since there are many people out there comment-spamming
> wordpress sites.
>
>  If you are doing something very heavy duty Drupal might be a
>> candidate.
>>
>
> I'd say "avoid drupal unless you know you need it" but that's just MHO.
>
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