Wiki + Outliner

[.Q.]

Anyone knows any good wiki with outlining features that I can put on a personal web server? Something like www.springnote.com . I've been trying to find such software but hasn't found any alternative to springnote at all.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

why not just use the wiki software and install it?

here's a bunch and the original flavours too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_(software)

[.Q.]

I have tried installing several (including the mediawiki you're pointing to) but none offer the same outliner style interface except Springnote. This is intended as a collaboration documentation software so the outlining feature would make it a lot easier to locate related documents vs. normal wiki style interface (at least to me).

[Darth Rock&Roll]

have you considered a content management system like joomla, mambo or drupal?

I suspect perhaps Drupal might be pretty close to what you are looking for. I could be wrong, but check them out.

http://joomla.com
http://drupal.org
http://mambo-foundation.org/

all are free and fairly easy to use if you know how to go about installing these packages on a webserver.

[.Q.]

I'll look into those but I think a CMS is a bit overkill. I want something that lets me look at a lot of small bits of information quickly (so outliners and mind mappers are good). e.g., Someone report that the printer is not printing, I can look up the troubleshooting section, which may have another note for when there's no printout, then depending on further symptoms look into different section of the notes. CMS are usually more suitable for storing long documents so they're great for standard procedures, etc., but not so great when you need to scan through different branches of information quickly.