MediaWiki alternatives for small business?

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Published on 2010-05-03T15:11:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 15:18 UTC
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Are there any good alternative wiki's to MediaWiki out there for a small business? Mostly we are just wanting to use it for documentation. MediaWiki is a fine (and slightly outdated) piece of software, but it doesn't even officially support basic things like controlling who has access to what page/article, which is an important feature for us.

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