Best wiki engine to use?

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Published on 2011-03-14T20:41:03Z Indexed on 2011/03/15 0:18 UTC
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Hi, I'm looking to set up a wiki as a simple CMS for a resource page. Mostly just pdfs and word documents will be hosted, but the two main features I'm looking for is the ability to restrict pages based upon user privileges and for blog-style comments between the users.

From what I've researched, mediawiki can easily do the first part with restricting users, but I haven't had much luck finding any plugins for comments. I'm trying to avoid the discussion style pages from wikipedia, and have more of a comments just under the article.

So far I'm leaning towards trying Tiki out, any other recommendations?

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