On Saturday 01 July 2006 08:57, Peter Scott wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:01:46 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Adam Kennedy and I used MediaWiki for win32.perl.org and the Perl-Begin's > > wikis respectively. It's my favourite wiki engine by far, and it's > > probably the wiki engine with most wikitext there written in (by property > > of being used in Wikipedia, and many other wikis). It's written in PHP > > and requires a MySQL database, but that shouldn't matter much to us: > > > > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/12/advocacy.html [2] > > > > It is derived from UseModWiki, which is a nice easy-to-install and use > > wiki written in Perl, which has become relatively unmaintained by its > > author. UseModWiki has a fork called Oddmuse which should be better. (and > > is also written in Perl). Now the MediaWiki syntax is backwards > > compatible with the UseMod/Oddmuse wikis' one, albeit it has many more > > extensions. I have once installed UseModWiki, but did not try Oddmuse > > yet. > > When I wanted a wiki I considered MediaWiki but went with TWiki because it > is pure perl, doesn't require a database, and AFAICT has just as many > capabilities as MediaWiki. Plus it was a lot easier for me to write > plugins and ancillary applications for given my level of Perl expertise vs > my level of PHP expertise, which may be a factor for other folk > maintaining your wiki.
Yes, TWiki is pretty nice too. It seems to be maintained again: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki04/TWikiReleaseNotes04x00x00 Last time I checked it was relatively hard to install, but not impossible see: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/bits.html Also, its code was reported to be of very bad quality, a situation which may have improved in the later version. I heard some criticisms of the quality of the MediaWiki code too. TWiki has many nice extensions like a Calendar, etc. which even kwiki still lacks. MoinMoin used to have an extensions' page but I can no longer find it there. TWiki will also be nice for wiki.perl.org. Nevertheless, it was not the main issue of the email (which I admit that I also diverted from). The real issue is whether or not we should have such a wiki. What implementation we are going to use for it can be decided upon later. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ 95% of the programmers consider 95% of the code they did not write, in the bottom 5%.
