[thelist] Distributed Wiki-like thingie

[Fred D Yocum]

I work for a north American nonprofit organization with offices is some 
thirty/forty countries. The personnel in the offices need to access 
various manuals and other information documents in order to do their jobs. 
The manuals have always been paper documents, which go out of date easily 
and are difficult to keep organized since they often reference each other. 
Printed manuals are easy to loose.

There is a proposal to distribute all of the documents as linked Web pages 
on a CD ROM with, ideally, a Web browser-based search function. This will 
enable any office with a Web browser to access the pages by following 
hypherlinks and by searching for specific topics. The manuals are written 
and managed by various departments in the organization. The personnel in 
the field do not need to -- indeed should not be able to edit the pages. 
Many of the offices do not have Web access so the manuals cannot be hosted 
on a Web server. Almost all the offices have at least one computer running 
Windows. 

This looks like a job for a Wiki but one that can be accessed internally 
while being built and "published" as standalone Web pages on a CD-ROM. 

Any suggestions?

Frederick D Yocum, Graphic Designer