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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