On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:16:30 +0100 Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/13/12, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > > Now we need a decision on this issue > > I think we need a proper discussion and a vote, not a decision yet. We > should try and evaluate the wikis that are out there before settling > for github right away. For one thing http://prowiki.org is pretty > fast, whereas GitHub seems to be hosted in the States and is slower to > access in Europe (it sure is slower to access for me compared to more > popular websites, but that might not be true for others of course..). > GitHub is just slow, period (I'm in the states). I don't think they care about speed, only being Web 2.0 (even forward/back/bookmarking is broken half the time, fuck I hate Web 2.0). > And I think searchability is really important (prowiki sometimes sucks > at this, but github is worse). The biggest problem I see with prowiki > is the spamming issue. > > Can gollum make nice colorized tables like this? > http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GuiLibraries Note also how the text > reflows when you resize the window, I never see that happening with > github wikis, they seem to be fixed in size. > > It's too bad ProWiki is in Perl, if it was written in D we could > contribute to it and modify it to our own needs. What about pmwiki? It's fast, supports tables, has a sane layout that actually reflows like a proper page should, and in my limited experience ( http://semitwist.com/goldwiki ) spamming doesn't seem to be a big problem once you've enabled the auto-updated blacklists and a basic password.
